Joe Joyce Continues His Climb Up The Heavyweight Ladder Against Carlos Takam

By: Hector Franco

This weekend on the Wembley Area in London, rising heavyweight contender Joe “Juggernaut” Joyce (12-0, 11 KOs) will tackle perennial journeyman Carlos Takam (39-5-1, 28 KOs) in a scheduled 12-round bout.

Joyce, 35, is without doubt one of the many “tremendous” heavyweights which were a big a part of this period, standing at 6’6 and at instances weighing over 250 kilos for his fights. The person often known as the Juggernaut, is finest identified for his beginner accomplishments, together with a silver medal on the 2016 Summer season Olympic Video games in Brazil, gold medals on the 2015 European video games, and the 2014 Widespread Wealth video games.

The London, England native participated in three seasons of the World Sequence of Boxing, garnering a 14-2 report with seven knockouts. The one vital loss got here towards present heavyweight contender and former undisputed cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.

As knowledgeable, Joyce has steadily raised his stage of competitors, having defeated former WBC heavyweight titleholder Bermane Stivene by sixth-round stoppage in February 2019. In the summertime of 2019, Joyce defeated former heavyweight contender Bryant Jennings by unanimous choice.

In his earlier bout, Joyce confronted fellow United Kingdom contender Daniel Dubois. After ten rounds of motion and with Joyce down on two of the three judges’ scorecards, the silver medalist knocked out Dubois with a left jab. Dubois took a knee and couldn’t proceed.

It was later discovered that Dubois suffered a fractured left eye socket.

Whereas Joyce’s opponent might be 5 years older than him at 40-years of age, Takam holds the sting in expertise over the UK star. Out of the 5 losses in Takam’s profession, 4 of the 5 have come towards elite competitors, comparable to Anthony Joshua, Alexander Povetkin, Joseph Parker, and Derek Chisora.

Since Takam’s newest defeat by the hands of Chisora in 2018, the Frenchman out of Cameroon has gained 4 straight fights and fought twice in 2020.

A victory over Takam for Joyce will maintain him on the regular observe in the direction of a world title alternative. Followers and pundits wish to see if Joyce is nearer to a Lennox Lewis or Tyson Fury relatively than an Audley Harrison or David Value.

On the very least, followers can count on a stable heavyweight battle in London on Saturday night time.

“I’m in a superb place; he’s in a superb place,” Joyce mentioned throughout a press convention. “We’re going to have a automobile crash Saturday night time. And I’m going to win.”