Congolese Junior Makabu vying for the 2020 WBC boxing title
Congolese Junior Ilunga Makabu, August 24, 2019 in Chelyabinsk.
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Junior Ilunga Makabu, world light heavyweight champion, is vying for the 2020 WBC boxer title. The Congolese, who has just defended his title against Nigerian Olanrewaju Durodola, was also named in the best knockout and best categories. comeback of the year.
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Will Junior Ilunga Makabu's incredible 2020 year be rewarded in 2021?
The Congolese has been nominated in three categories by the WBC, one of the four major professional boxing federations.
The cruiserweight world champion is notably competing with big names like Briton Tyson Fury, Mexican Canelo Alvarez and American Teofimo Lopez for the title of boxer of the year.
Unlike his five rivals in this category, the cruiserweight king can claim to have fought twice in 2020.
A vote of Internet users
After winning the belt in January in Kinshasa against Pole Michal Cieslak, Junior Makabu has indeed just defended it at home against Nigerian Olanrewaju Durodola.
Two successes which earned him to be also named in the categories "comeback of the year" and "KO of the year".
Internet users will decide on the names of the winners through
an online vote
.
A vote for which Junior Makabu is the only African in the running.
You can choose the best of the best!
🔰https: //t.co/UFejXQVIme
- World Boxing Council (@WBCBoxing) January 4, 2021
Looking forward to his next fight
The WBC has also devoted a long article to her in which she reviews the Congolese's charitable activities with children in the DRC.
🇨🇩🥊🥇 Back to Image.
First #Action of the year.
Thank you WBC
Long live the #Foundation (FJM) ✌️🍾🍹✌️ pic.twitter.com/aD1OlzyEhr
- Junior Makabu🥇🥊 Foundation (@junior_makabu) December 27, 2020
Finally, even if he relies on his team to build his program in 2021, the native of Kananga takes the opportunity to recall what his ambitions are.
"
I want to warn my next opponent and my future opponents that I will remain champion at the end of 2021
," he says.
However, I want to fight for the title of
The Ring Magazine
this year
”.
A distinction awarded by the famous American magazine and of which the Latvian Mairis Briedis is the current winner.
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