Joe Joyce will have been the first time the world belt since going to boxing professional boxing with Joseph Parker. Both will give a heavy wbo belt (Heavyweight). The winner will have the opportunity to fight with Oleksandr Usyk for the official WBO belt.
Joyce, 37, studied art at Middlesex University. He also proved to be very gifted in two fields of athletics and Rugby when he was young before deciding to pursue his boxing career. In an interview with The Sun, Joyce revealed that he used a student loan to go to China to learn martial arts.
“I used to go to China to practice Shaolin Shaolin right after graduating from college.
It is a training camp for foreigners, each has a separate coach. We will practice running at 5 am, then practice strength and then practice techniques, sambo or wushu. I just started playing boxing around that time, so the techniques of these two subjects complement each other quite well, “Joyce shared.
By using both Kungfu and Boxing, Joe Joyce was once asked about switching to competition in MMA (general martial arts). However, the 37 -year -old puncher excluded this possibility:
“I really think that I can play MMA. My blowes are dangerous enough to confront a few rivals of the same weight class. However, I will have to practice a lot of more wrestling exercises.