Tony Yoka, the young promise of French boxing who knocked out Don King

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Arrogance is not an Olympic value.

That is why France did not finish giving the deserved luster to the gold of

, its champion of the super heavyweight in the Olympic Games in Rio 2016. And if a powerful mass like Yoka, of two meters and 110 kilos, is added the sanction Imposed by the French Boxing Federation, which gave him a year out of the ring for skipping four doping tests in 12 months, it is understood that Yoka still generates mistrust among his compatriots.

But the crowd on boxing nights is not the one who sits cheering in the Olympic stands.

And that is why the expectation of being before someone who can do great things was felt a few days ago at the Arena de La Defense in Paris.

Yoka's return to the fight was an incentive, more for the tough fight that had been fought backstage.

Against the talented Yoka, a true

, the legendary North American promoter who in 1974 organized the fight between

and

in Zaire.

King had legally fought so that Yoka would not fight, claiming the contract he had signed with the pearl of French boxing to organize four bouts for her in two years.

Signing with King is like signing with

.

And fight in North America the dream of Europeans.

That's why Yoka, a professional since mid-2017 and eager to fight after stopping for doping, threw himself into the promoter's arms.

Right after his punishment was over, King extended him a contract, but then offered him no opportunities.

And once he found that the businessman's verbiage did not turn into fighting, the boxer ordered his team to break the agreement with King.

Yoka's arguments

At first, King's army of lawyers did not buy Yoka's ordeal, but as anticipation grew for the fighter's event in La Defense, the 89-year-old promoter resorted to every blow in his power to prevent not to be held.

The request to stop the combat came eight days before its celebration.

And there began a race against time in the offices, through which the Spanish lawyer Juan de Dios Crespo also moved, whose Valencia law firm specializes in sports law.

With a minimum bond of 53 euros, King's lawyers presented the case to the French Referees, an arbitration court that decides on precautionary measures, and the hearing was held 24 hours after the jump into the ring.

Yoka's lawyers argued that the contract with King was not valid, since it was signed in New York.

In his opinion, the American promoter did not have legal legitimacy to suspend the boxing match, an argument that was finally imposed in the arbitration body, which gave the green light to the fight.

Yoka reappeared in a big way in the Arena de La Defense before 5,000 masked spectators - the next day, the capital applied restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic that would not have allowed so much public in that fight - and dispatched his opponent, his compatriot

, in one minute and 47 seconds.

It was a technical KO because it was the referee who stopped the fight.

But it could be a de facto knockout, because he knocked Duhaupas down twice.

First, culminating a barrage of blows with a right hook that hammered the head of his opponent and, seconds later, with an uppercut to the chin that ended the fight.

Yoka scored a great success to his record, which remains unbeaten and with eight victories and, already separated from Don King, dreams of placing his name on the great posters that move through Las Vegas, with the expected third act between

and

.

Champion

awaits the winner

.

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