Comments Thread For: Tony Yoka Given 1-Year Suspended Ban Over Missed Doping Tests

I doubt Richard Schaefer and Haye at Ringstar are very happy with this. Still, I doubt the 'suspended' ban will affect much and he's scheduled to fight on April 7th. For me, It feels like Yoka has had fewer fights than Joyce since Rio but is not the case (Yoka 3, Joyce 2). I think Joyce needs to up the momentum and activity since fighting Lewison on his debut. A potential (professional) rematch between these two should be easy enough to make given their under the same banner.

the WBC says Yoka is innocent. F*cking brilliant.

You cheating piece of a ***** Ban his @ss for life! NO TOLERANCE for cheaters, BOXING is making a comeback in the mainstream and this crap keeps happening! Enough is a gotdamn enough!

i read this yesterday but it was in french, so i thought he failed the tests. he didn't. he missed them.

Ridiculous seems that Canal+ paid the French Federation some extra Euro to save their investment

Wait, is he suspended or not? Missing 4 tests not a good sign, wouldn’t they inform the testing agency he’s out of the country? Jacobs trained in that camp for the GGG fight and looked much bigger, especially when he couldn’t make the IBF second day weight. Not sure if there is any correlation, but doesn’t look good with all the Canelo positive testing news that is out now

2 things stick out 1. boxing is a world sport and he's doing tons of training outside of france... 2. he trains with virgil hunter and tons of ppl have been skeptical of andre ward ...i guess some other things would be why didn they doping agency just wait for his plane to arrive or catch him when he landed... also are they random test? if not how tf is he supposed to show up?

This is EU, while in US Alvaroid getting away with murder.

So how does one miss 4 doping tests and get off with a suspended ban ?!?!

Rough, I'll still look out for him in the future. Yoka, Dubois, and Joyce will keep things lively after the dust settles between Wilder and Joshua (maybe Fury)

He is innocent, was eating tainted beef ya’ll!!! Tainted escargot maybe

He is innocent, was eating tainted beef ya’ll!!!

Damn It come on Yoka! Way too early in your career for all of this :nonono:

Just a correction, it's a 1-year suspended ban - meaning that he's not actually under suspension. Something like Fury's back-dated ban. What? Only in boxing could something like this be so convoluted and make zero sense

Just a correction, it's a 1-year suspended ban - meaning that he's not actually under suspension. Something like Fury's back-dated ban.

the WBC says Yoka is innocent.

Yoka always stood out as Fraud, particularly when he got the gift decision over Joyce in Olympics.

According to the lawyer of Olympic super heavyweight champion Tony Yoka, the superstar boxer was handed a suspended one-year ban by the French boxing federation on Tuesday for missing four doping tests. What a dope