Tony Yoka

Tony Yoka
Data
Birth Name	Tony Victor James Yoka
Fight name	La Conquete
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	French
birthday	April 28, 1992
place of birth	Paris
style	Left delivery
size	2.01 m
Range	2.08 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	7th
Victories	7th
Knockout victories	6th
Defeats	0
Profile in the BoxRec database

Tony Yoka medal table
Boxing
France
Olympic games
gold	2016	Super heavyweight
Amateur world championships
gold	2015	Super heavyweight
European Games
bronze	2015	Super heavyweight
EU championships
bronze	2014	Super heavyweight

Tony Victor James Yoka (born April 28, 1992 in Paris ) is a French boxer . He became an amateur world champion in 2015 and a super heavyweight Olympic champion in 2016 . In June 2017 he played his first professional fight.

Amateur career

Tony Yoka, who from the age of 16 was looked after by the Cuban coach Luis Mariano Gonzales and from 2009 regularly spent training periods on the Caribbean island, won the French junior championship in 2008 and the French youth championship in 2009. In addition, he won a bronze medal at the European Youth Championships in Szczecin in August 2009 and the silver medal at the World Youth Championships in Baku in April 2010 . In August 2010 he won the gold medal at the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore .

In the elite class (adults) he became French champion in 2012 and 2014, achieved second place in the European Olympic qualification in 2012 in Trabzon (final defeat against Magomed Omarow ) and in the same year took part in the Summer Olympics in London , where he, however with a narrow auxiliary point rating (16: 16+) was eliminated in the first fight against the Canadian Simon Kean .

At the World Championships in 2011 and 2013 he was defeated in the preliminary rounds against Erislandy Savón and Roberto Cammarelle . He lost to the latter in the round of 16 at the European Championships in 2011. At the Chemistry Cup 2014, he was eliminated in the semifinals against the German starter Florian Schulz with 1: 2 on points and won bronze. He won another bronze medal at the 2014 EU Championships in Sofia .

In 2009 he also won the Vojvodanske Glove Tournament in Serbia and the Agalarow Tournament in Azerbaijan, as well as the Brandenburg Cup in Germany in 2010 , the 4-Nations Tournament in France in 2012 and the 3-Nations Tournament in France in 2013 . In 2015 he won a bronze medal at the European Games in Baku .

At the 2015 World Championships in Doha , he won the gold medal. He beat Wang Zhibao, Filip Hrgović , Joseph Joyce and Iwan Dytschko on the way to the title . Yoka thus qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games . He could also finish this with the gold medal after defeating Clayton Laurent , Hussein Iashaish , Filip Hrgović and Joseph Joyce. It was the first Olympic gold medal by a French boxer since the 2000 Summer Games. Two days earlier, his girlfriend Estelle Mosselly had also won gold in the weight class under 60 kilograms.

Professional career

After his Olympic victory, he switched to the professional camp. In January 2017, the French pay broadcaster Canal + secured the transmission rights to Yoka's fights for four years. He chose Virgil Hunter as his coach and was preparing for his professional debut in San Francisco . In his first fight on June 2, 2017 in the Paris "Palais des Sports de la Porte Versailles", Yoka defeated the American Travis Clark by knocking out in the second round.

Since Yoka violated the anti-doping regulations three times within a period of less than a year (between July 2016 and July 2017) and missed three doping tests or violated the obligation to provide information about his whereabouts, he was informed by the Anti-Doping Agency in July 2018. France agency closed until July 2019. In August 2018, the judgment was upheld by the Supreme Administrative Court ( Conseil d'État ). In July 2019, in his first fight after the suspension expired, he defeated the German Alexander Dimitrenko with a demolition victory in the third round.

List of professional fights

5 fights, 5 wins (4 knockout wins), 0 defeats
year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Yoka
2017	2th of June	Palais des Sports , Paris , France	Travis Clark professional debut	Victory / KO 2nd round
	October 14th	Zénith , Paris, France	Jonathan Rice	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
	December 16	La Seine Musicale , Boulogne-Billancourt , France	Ali Baghouz	Victory / TKO 2nd round
2018	7th of April	Palais des Sports, Paris, France	Cyril Léonet	Victory / KO 5th round
	23rd June	Palais des Sports, Paris, France	David Allen	Victory / TKO 10th round
2019	July 13th	Azur Arena, Antibes, France	Alexander Dimitrenko	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	September 28th	Palais des Sports de Beaulieu, Nantes, France	Michael Wallisch	Victory / TKO 3rd round
Source: Tony Yoka in the BoxRec database

Private life

His father Victor Buanganga Yoka comes from Kinshasa and was also a boxer.

Yoka and his girlfriend Estelle Mossely achieved celebrity status after their Olympic victories in Rio 2016 in France and were dubbed the “gold couple” in the country's media. At the end of March 2017, Yoka and Mossely announced that they were expecting their first child together. Yoka and Mossely married on January 7, 2018, and their son was born on August 2, 2017. In October 2019, the couple announced the split. At the time, they were both expecting their second child together.

Web links

Commons : Tony Yoka  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Tony Yoka in the BoxRec database
• Profile at BBC
• Profile at AIBA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography: Portrait de Tony Yoka, un homme, un vrai. In: Kool Stuff. February 8, 2017, accessed January 9, 2020 . 
2. ↑ VIDEO. JO 2016: le boxeur français Tony Yoka sur le toit du monde. In: France Info. August 21, 2016, accessed January 9, 2020 (French). 
3. ↑ Tony Yoka va passer professionnel. In: Eurosport. August 22, 2016, accessed January 9, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Box: Tony Yoka, prêt à croquer une carrière professionnelle, signe une exclu avec Canal +. January 18, 2017, accessed January 9, 2020 (French). 
5. ↑ Eric Michel: Boxe: Tony Yoka, l'Amérique lui va comme un gant. In: Le Parisien. March 23, 2017, accessed January 9, 2020 . 
6. ^ Boxes. VIDÉOS: revivez le premier combat pro de Tony Yoka. In: Ouest-France. June 1, 2017, accessed January 9, 2020 (French). 
7. ↑ Tony Yoka suspendu un an pour dopage. July 5, 2018, accessed January 8, 2019 (French). 
8. ↑ Dopage: le Conseil d'État confirme la suspension pour un an de Tony Yoka. Retrieved January 8, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Box: Tony Yoka réussit son retour après un an de suspension. In: FranceInfo. Retrieved December 14, 2019 (French). 
10. ↑ RIO 2016: Tony Yoka et Estelle Mossely, la belle histoire d'un couple d'origine congolaise aux JO. In: Sports.cd. August 21, 2016, accessed January 9, 2020 . 
11. ↑ 6Medias: Estelle Mossely et Tony Yoka: le couple en or des JO dévoile ses projets. December 25, 2016, accessed January 9, 2020 (French). 
12. ↑ Prisma Média: Tony Yoka et Estelle Mossely: Un "bébé en or" pour les champions olympiques - Gala. Retrieved January 9, 2020 (French). 
13. ↑ Tony Yoka et Estelle Mossely se sont mariés. In: huffingtonpost.fr. January 8, 2018, accessed December 13, 2019 (French). 
14. ↑ Estelle Mossely et Tony Yoka anno cent la naissance de leur enfant. In: 20minutes.fr. Retrieved December 13, 2019 (French). 
15. ↑ Box: Estelle Mossely and Tony Yoka se separate, la jeune femme est enceinte de son second enfant. In: France Bleu. October 23, 2019, accessed December 13, 2019 (French).