Having suffered defeat against Daniel Dubois, Anthony Joshua is preparing for a comeback. He appears poised to receive a fight offer in Nigeria early next year, and contender Martin Bakole has expressed his willingness to participate: It is worth fighting for. We have to succeed in Africa. It will be the Rumble in the Jungle II Barry Hearn thinks that Anthony Joshua is missing boxing and is eager to return to the ring. Anthony Joshua might be presented with a chance to fight again in Nigeria at the beginning of next year..
Last September, Joshua faced Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium and lost the IBF world heavyweight title match. He has had to recuperate from an injury since then, but the former world champion is now considering options for his comeback in the sport.
His team have considered Ghana as a potential location for Joshua’s next contest, but an offer also looks set to be made to host a fight in Nigeria. Promoter Dr Ezekiel Adamu recently staged a boxing event in Lagos in association with Amir Khan. “It was an amazing success,” Adamu told Sky Sports News. “A new opening for boxing in Africa.
Adamu is eager for AJ to fight in Nigeria. “We’ve had a preliminary conversation and we’ll keep going,” he said. “We’re looking at Q1 next year.
“We all know AJ’s always said he wants to fight in Africa before the end of his career and we believe Nigeria is actually the best story.
“Nigeria has the highest population in the whole of Africa, about 250 million people. Nigeria is the economic capital of the whole of Africa. The list goes on and on. We believe that we are actually poised to make that happen.”
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Martin Bakole, a heavyweight from Congo, has previously been a sparring partner for Joshua. Following a short-notice defeat to Joseph Parker and a draw with Efe Ajagba, Bakole is keen for a significant fight.
“I’d take the fight with Anthony Joshua in a heartbeat. We are both African fighters, and now we’re seeing boxing come back to Africa,” Bakole told Sky Sports.
“Anthony Joshua doesn’t want to fight me. He knows what happened in sparring. If we get in the ring I’m going to knock him out. Without doubt.
“I’ll even knock him out in Nigeria, in front of his own crowd. This is the fight to make. And we need to make it in Africa. It’ll be the Rumble in the Jungle II.”
Adamu acknowledged: “He is an option. There’s a lot of options being thrown at us for this particular fight but – yes – Martin Bakole is here.
“We have a lot of options that we’ll be looking at and we believe that we’ll come up with something really exciting that will excite the whole world and obviously bring proper excitement to Africa as well, especially Nigeria.
