By Scott Gilfoid: Anthony Joshua could be as light as 235 pounds for his title defense this month against #3 IBF Carlos Takam (35-3-1, 27 KOs) on October 28, according to promoter Eddie Hearn. He says Joshua (19-0, 19 KOs) has trimmed down for this fight from the 250 lbs. he weight for his last contest against 41-year-old Wladimir Klitschko on April 29.
By Scott Gilfoid: Anthony Joshua (19-0, 19 KOs) is predicting a knockout win over his next opponent #3 IBF Carlos Takam (35-3-1, 27 KOs) in their fight in 10 days from now on October 28 at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.
By Scott Gilfoid: Anthony Joshua (19-0, 19 KOs) is very concerned about getting beaten by replacement opponent Carlos Takam (35-3-1, 27 KOs) in their fight in less than 2 weeks from now on October 28 at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.
Carlos Takam has replaced Kubrat Pulev as the IBF mandatory challenger for Anthony Joshua at Principality Stadium in Cardiff on October 28, live on Sky Sports Box Office.
Frenchman Takam is rated at number three with the governing body and has been on the hunt for a showdown with the British star, and gets his golden chance at ripping away Joshua’s titles in the Welsh capital after Pulev picked up a shoulder injury in sparring.
By Jim Dower: Kubrat Pulev’s shoulder injury has caused him not only to lose out on his previously scheduled October 28 fight against IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (19-0, 19 KOs), but he’s also lost his mandatory position with the International Boxing Federation, according to Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn.
By Jeff Aranow: Matchoom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn has verified that he’s going to have IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (19-0, 19 KOs) defend his title against #3 IBF Carlos Takam (35-3-1, 27 KOs) to salvage the October 28 card and to replace the injured IBF mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev (25-1, 13 KO).
By Jim Dower: Heavyweight contender Carlos Takam (34-3-1, 26 KOs) bounced back from a defeat to Joseph Parker to destroy an over-matched 39-year-old Marcin Rekowski (17-5, 14 KOs) by a 4th round knockout last Sunday at the Cotai Arena in Macao, China. In winning the fight, Takam captured the vacant IBF Inter-Continental heavyweight title.
By Patrick McHugh: WBA interim heavyweight champion Luis “King Kong” Ortiz (25-0, 22 KOs) will be defending his interim title against #6 IBF, #12 WBC Carlos Takam (33-3-1, 25 KOs) next month on November 12 in Monte Carlo. It should be a good fight.
Ortiz, 37, hasn’t fought since stopping former two time world title challenger Tony Thompson in the 6th round last March. Ortiz is also supposed to fight in December as well.
By Scott Gilfoid: British heavyweight Dillian Whyte (16-1, 13 KOs) was not impressed with what he saw of unbeaten #4 IBF Joseph Parker (19-0, 16 KOs) in his 12 round unanimous decision win over #3 IBF Carlos Takam (33-3-1, 25 KOs) in their IBF heavyweight eliminator bout on Saturday night at the Vodafone Events Center, in Manukau City, New Zealand.
Parker, 24, won the fight to become the IBF mandatory to IBF champion Anthony Joshua. Whyte was watching the fight as a commentator for Sky Sports, and he saw a lot of flaws in both Parker and Takam’s game that he wasn’t impressed with. Whyte, 28, thinks he would beat Parker if it had been him that was fighting him.
Unfortunately for Whyte, he didn’t fight Parker and he’s not the one who will be getting a payday against Joshua. Whyte will be fighting on Joshua’s undercard on June 25 against an opponent still to be determined at the O2 Arena in London, UK.
By Jeff Aranow: If nothing else, #4 IBF Joseph Parker (19-0, 16 KOs) proved that he had the better engine than the 35-year-old Carlos Takam (33-3-1, 25 KOs) in outworking him to win an unimpressive 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night in their IBF heavyweight eliminator bout at the Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau City, New Zealand.
The win for the 24-year-old Parker makes him the IBF mandatory challenger to champion Anthony Joshua. Never the less, Parker is going to need to have much better stamina if he wants to beat Joshua because he looked lacking in that department tonight in his win over Takam.
The judges’ scores for the Parker-Takam fight were 116-112, 116-112, and 115-113. Those were pretty fair scores for Takam. I had Parker winning 9 rounds to 3. The only rounds I could give Takam were rounds 1, 5 and 9. Takam was simply outworked in the other rounds by Parker.