Martin Bakol did not take the location of Daniel Dubois on the boxing mega-card on Saturday, he also took his gloves.
In a curious vision, Bakole was seen wearing Dubois’s black fly-branded gloves, in which “DDD” wrote his fight with Joseph Parker for WBO interim heavyweight title in ANB Erina in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in his fight with Joseph Parker Was.
The Parker was initially prescribed to challenge the IBF Heavyweight Champion Dubois as a co-main program of Saturday’s Artur Betterbiev vs. Dimitri Bivol Remach, although Dubois on Thursday to withdraw from fighting with New Jondander due to illness on Thursday due to illness Was forced. The Riyadh season, the promotional unit operated by the Turkish Allashikh and Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, managed to agree on a 48 -hour notice and to replace Dubois in a remarkable savings for the show.
Bacol recalled Friday’s official weight-in as it was still on a 3,800 mile flight from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He reached Riyadh less than 24 hours before he was scheduled to fight.
Bacol informally weighed in 310 pounds on Saturday morning, when he dropped Jredday Anderson in the fifth round in Los Angeles last August, 25.5 pounds were heavy. The heavyweight contender admitted in the social media post that he was not in the training camp when he receives a call and was not ready for his fight with Parker, although he still expressed confidence in his chances of victory.
There was not enough time for its pair of gloves approved by British Boxing Board of Control for Bakole, which ended the phenomenon, so wearing it with “DDD” visible under the fly logo at the glove. Was forced.
When Bakole entered the ring, he was clearly out of shape and stable. Parker floated Bacol with a right -handed temple in the second round, and Bekole was taken out by trainer Billy Nelson after knockdown.
Nelson told Ring Magazine that Bakole would still proceed with his planned May fight against Effe Ajagaba in New York on Ryan Garcia vs. Rollando Romero Undercard, but the bout will no longer be an IBF eliminator. The fighters may not have an interim battle after ordering for the IBF Eliminator, so when Bakole agreed to face the parker, they were simultaneously withdrawn with Ajagba from the IBF Eliminator.
