Anthony Joshua’s team responds to reports that Martin Bakole Fight is ‘signed’ and set to Africa

Speculation has grown in the last few days that Anthony Joshua and Martin Bakole are ready to fight in Africa.

Joshua has not fought since he was stopped in five rounds by IBF world champion Daniel Dubois back in September. He had hoped to fight Tyson Fury this year, but Fury announced his retirement at the beginning of 2025.

Bakole is an often avoided heavy weight that has stopped Carlos Takam and even more impressive, the highly hyped American Jared Anderson in his last two matches.

He is now in camp for an IBF eliminator against EFE AJAGBA With his promoter, Ben Shalom, who said an agreement to meet Joshua was ‘done’ for Congo later in the year.

“The promoter of Martin Bakole, that’s what I want to be known as. The greatest heavy weight in the world. It’s done. I hear that he is signed and we are on our way to Congo. “

However, talk to BoxnationJournalist Gareth A Davis revealed that Joshua’s camp hadn’t even had a conversation about the potential match-up.

“With them I said I had to check it out with certain people who have to stay nameless from the record, but I hear from Anthony Joshua’s side, who hasn’t even been a conversation. Maybe this is Bakole and his team trying to talk the match into reality as Joshua hasn’t got a match yet, and Tyson Fury is retired and it was his obvious match this summer.

It would be a big sight in Africa, in the Congo, in the stadium that Ali and Foreman fought in. It’s a fantastic event if they can do it 51 years after the rumbling in the jungle, but I’m sorry that I Hearing hasn’t even been a conversation about it. “

For now, it seems that this one is far away.