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Billy Nelson believes that the biggest threat to Bakole would be the temptation to look beyond his next opponent
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Billy Nelson believes that the biggest threat to Bakole would be the temptation to look beyond his next opponent

Top Rank heavyweight Jared Anderson is set to return from his first professional loss on February 14 against Greece's Marios Kollias at New York's Madison Square Garden, an official connected to the negotiations told BoxingScene on Monday.

Jared Anderson was being built up by Top Rank as a potential heavyweight contender – and then Anderson came crumbling down.

Much of what makes ageing so cruel is that it happens so gradually, the damage done in increments largely imperceptible until suddenly it is all you see. If it’s not something you see in yourself, it will be something you see in those around you, maybe peers or parents, and if it’s not something you see, it will be something you inevitably feel.

Heavyweight contender Martin Bakole has been given a hero's welcome on his arrival back in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a week on from his big win over Jared Anderson in Los Angeles.

THERE is no defeat in boxing quite like the one suffered by a heavyweight. The punches responsible for it are louder, and more hurtful, and the scene of devastation is usually akin to that of a house party the morning after. Even for the lucky ones, the ones who finish on their feet rather than staring up at the lights, a heavyweight defeat remains a humiliating experience, with either exhaustion involved, or flailing limbs and desperate clinches only compounding the sense of humiliation.

Heavyweight prospect Dainier “The Fear” Pero believes he can compete with any of the top heavyweights in the world.

After scoring an upset over Jared Anderson on Saturday in Los Angeles, Martin Bakole said he prefers to next fight either the winner of the Oleksandr Usyk-Tyson Fury rematch or Michael Hunter, in a rematch of their own.

