Tony Yoka, faces Carlos Takam, Saturday at the Zénith de Paris. Panoramic
Le Figaro attended Tony Yoka’s training on Monday and collected his last impressions before challenging Carlos Takam. Defeat is forbidden to him.
The training room of a Parisian luxury hotel on Monday afternoon in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. Tony Yoka appears, blue tank top, black stockings, bulging muscles and tattooed arms of Maori-inspired designs. The face is closed. Part of his management is there, around the ring, watching him in front of the cameras and the lenses of the photographers. American rap comes out of the speakers to accompany this warm-up session which lasted about twenty minutes. Little or no excess in the contained strikes of the Frenchman who seems to have gained a little weight and muscles.
The Olympic champion knows it, he will play very big next Saturday against Carlos Takam, a real reference among heavyweights for his comeback fight after a surprise defeat against Martin Bakolé last May. Eleven victories, one defeat among the professionals and a setback to the conquest of a world title which today seems a long way off. Brutally descended from his pedestal, Yoka…
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