Petar Milas: record, next fight and profile →
In an entertaining clash at lightweight, Cuban hotshot Jadier Herrera scored an important and entertaining stoppage of Panamanian veteran, climbing off the floor to win in the eighth-round.
AGON Sports comes out firing in January after its global expansion in 2025.
Sarah Bormann escaped with an unpopular split decision over visiting Yuko Kuroki to unify the WBA and WBO 105lbs titles Saturday at Wandsbeker Sporthalle in Hamburg, Germany.
A pair of heavyweight bouts accompany an intriguing strawweight unification bout.
Frenchman Kevin Lele Sadjo has been reinstated as EBU super middleweight champion, stating that it was his management and not him who relinquished the belt.
Roland Garros, France - Heavyweight contender Tony Yoka (11-0, 9 KOs), the Paris native who won Olympic gold for France in 2016, stopped previously unbeaten Petar Milas (15-1, 11 KOs) in the seventh round.
Tony Yoka will be the first to admit there is far more that needs to be done just to get where he expected to be at this time. The 2016 Olympic super heavyweight Gold medalist from France is undefeated in the ring thus far as a pro, though his career has anything but perfect. The 29-year-old from Paris, France enters just his eleventh pro fight, his activity stalled due to the unfortunate combination of a one-year suspension for missing random drug tests and the global pandemic to follow.
Heavyweight contender Tony Yoka, the Paris native who won Olympic gold for France in 2016, returns home for a historic night at the fights. Yoka will face fellow unbeaten Peter Milas in a 10-rounder this Friday, Sept. 10 at Roland Garros, site of the French Open. This marks the first boxing event to take place at the famed tennis venue since 1973.
French heavyweight Tony Yoka (10-0) takes on Croatian Petar Milas (15-0) at the Roland Garros Tennis Stadium in Paris, with the date of September 10. Yoka vs. Milas has been on a few times before, as the Croatian was co-challenger along with Yoka for the then vacant EU title.
BILD writes that a German mega fight between ex-world champs Felix Sturm and Juergen Braehmer is in the works and could, if the parties reach an agreement, take place in April with the "new" Universum as promoter.