Comments Thread For: Tony Yoka Pumped To Go Pro With Richard Schaefer, Virgil Hunter

[AddiX]

Schaefer is building his company the right way with signing a lot of decorated Olympians and he's smart by signing the various weight classes to promote them.

Again the boxing scene is going to get very interesting over the next few years between the established boxing Promotions and the up start promotional companies.

It will be interesting to see what happens aa these companies arm themselves with new talent and new outlets to showcase there talent.

Haymon signed tons if Olympians, none of them have done anything yet.

You either need to sign the guys who can be immediate studs, like loma or Michael conlan, or you need to hope they will become spence.

The rest of them you just need to hope become entertaining fighters, because being An Olympic boxer doesn't mean much anymore if you didn't win gold.

[BoxHec]

RINGSTAR IS NOT FUGGIN AROUND LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
a french boxer?? wow yo..if he is the french anthony joshua that would be nuts

But Tony Yoka's amateur trainer was Cuban and has made training camps in Cuba for several years, and his father is from Congo, Central Africa, and now he turn pro in the U.S... so "Yoka" a french athlete? I doubt it if you want my opinion

[Earl-Hickey]

I've got to be honest he looked like trash in what was a pretty low quality field at the olympics

[jup11223]

Yoka is the truth.i followed his amateur career and there is no doubt he will be hw champion

[bronx7]

Watched all his Olympic fights tall fast hands good fundamentals but hunter has to fix that D in the finals got hit a lot could have went either way but shows promise

[BWC]

I like Yoka. Great size and good fundamentals at the amateur level. We'll see if has the power to be elite at the pro level..

[Dr Rumack]

Cool. Frazier, Foreman, Lewis, and Wlad still the only four heavy/super-heavy gold medallists to win the heavyweight championship. Ingemaar Johansson and Rid**** Bowe the only silver medallists. AJ close too though.

[Tom Cruise]

Ive been harsh on the guy in the past due to him always seemingly being on the right end of controversial decisions, but im just gonna step back now and see how he develops.

He's only 24, and whether i think he deserved to win his gold medals at the Olympics and the World champs, he has been a feature at the top of the Am HW scene for many years.

Plenty of time to develop.

[BWC]

Cool. Frazier, Foreman, Lewis, and Wlad still the only four heavy/super-heavy gold medallists to win the heavyweight championship. Ingemaar Johansson and Rid**** Bowe the only silver medallists. AJ close too though.

Was Ali at Light Heavy?

[Dr Rumack]

Was Ali at Light Heavy?

Yeah he was. Leon Spinks and Holyfield (bronze) were too. Ward and Jirov two other notable medallists from that division over the years. Jirov won the Val Barker trophy for the Kazakhs too, but didn't really reach great heights in his pro career beyond the Toney fight.