Joe Joyce (boxer)
Joseph Obey Joyce is a British professional boxer. He has held the British, Commonwealth, European, WBC Silver, and WBO International heavyweight titles since November 2020. He won a bronze medal at the 2013 European Championships; gold at the 2014 Commonwealth and 2015 European Games; bronze at the 2015 World Championships; and silver at the 2016 Olympics. As of December 2020, he is ranked as the world’s tenth best active heavyweight by BoxRec and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.
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Joseph Obey Joyce is a British professional boxer. He has held the British, Commonwealth, European, WBC Silver, and WBO International heavyweight titles since November 2020. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal at the 2013 European Championships; gold at the 2014 Commonwealth and 2015 European Games; bronze at the 2015 World Championships; and silver at the 2016 Olympics. As of December 2020, he is ranked as the world’s tenth best active heavyweight by BoxRec and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. Joyce turned professional in July 2017 at the age of 31, signing with Hayemaker Ringstar. He made his professional debut against Donnie Palmer on 17 March at the York Hall in London. On 2 November, Joyce confirmed that he would fight on the Bellew-Haye II undercard on 17 December. Two days later, British boxer Tom Little was announced as his opponent. Joyce knocked out Rudolf Jozic in the first round of his next fight on 16 February. On 3 February, whilst backstage at the O2 Arena in London for Lawrence Okolie vs. Isaac Chamberlain, Derek Chisora revealed Haye had contacted his manager Steve Goodwin and offered £60,000 for him to fight Joyce. Haye later stated if the money was right, he would fights Joyce on the Tony Bellew vs. David Haye II card on 5 May 2018. On 6 September 2017, an official announcement was made for the first boxing event which would take place at Indigo, The O2 arena in London on 20 October 2017.
Joyce would headline the card, making his debut against experienced former WBO Inter-Continental champion Ian Lewison. He put on an impressive display in a hard earned victory. Joyce won the silver medal in the super heavyweight class at the2016 Summer Olympics, losing in the final, on a split decision to Tony Yoka of France. He had success during 2015 and 2016 in the World Series of Boxing, and in April 2016 won a gold medal at European Olympic trials to qualify for the Olympics. Joyce is on record saying ‘I don’t really like boxing, but I enjoy doing it’, highlighting the fact that he was not a big boxing fan growing up, and only started watching some of the greats after getting into boxing properly. He also won the title at the2015 European Games in Baku. On 1 March he received a six-figure offer to fight Agit Kabayel, but rejected the offer. On 24 March, after Chihuahua knocked out his French opponent Zakaria Azzouzi and then called Haye and Haye over during his post-fight interview, Joyce stated that he had confidence in Haye. He then asked Haye if he had one in public and then asked him if he could fight him in front of the British public on the first public public appearance on 1 March. On 17 March he knocked out Donnie Palmer in the first minute of the round.
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