Tony Yoka vs. Petar Milas | ESPN+ - September 10, 2021

[Ruthless-RKO]

Has this finished?

[gregregegg]

Has this finished?

Yes. Yoka ko 7th? Mabey 8th.

[margaret thatcher]

yoka had some problems and you could make a case for him being behind at the time of the stoppage, but still, he stopped a capable and confident young opponent who came to win, solid result

[margaret thatcher]

sirenko was on the undercard........yoka got eyes on him?

[cormack]

Tony Yoka

Mediocre

[joshj909]

I only saw the finish but Yoka looked much bigger than Milas. Didn't realise there would be that big of a size discrepancy.

[DrDuke]

I expected Milas to be better. He was more like surviving, until finally got caught.

[candyslim]

Credit to both guys for taking the fight. Not quite Joyce taking on Dubois, at the same time Milas is massively better than Radonjic who did his impression of a basketball against Hrgovic.

I have said on here at least once before that when I've watched Milas box in the past he strikes me as being a capable boxer, but despite several inside the distance wins on his record, I felt he lacked pop. That made him an ideal opponent for Yoka whose weakness is his fragility. If you don't have the power to hurt Yoka you are going to facing an uphill struggle.

I didn't bother with scoring but what struck me right away was the disparity in economy of movement. Those who watch football (soccer) will be very familiar with the scenario whereby an hour has passed, there is no score, and the weaker team are pressing every time the superior team get the ball giving them no time to establish any rhythm or do much of anything. They are working so hard to remain competitive you know they won't be able to sustain it over 90 mins. Sure enough the breakthrough occurs about 70 mins and the game ends with the favourites running out comfortable 3-0 winners.

I got exactly that vibe watching Milas. He was well in the fight but he was having to expend twice as much energy as Yoka. For me the ending was never in doubt.

Apparently Milas said before the fight that provided he put up a good show then even if he lost the fight it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing (or words to that effect). That tells me all I need to know about Petar Milas. It tells me he has a sense of proportion, he's a reasonable, sensible, probably a nice person, and psychologically poorly equipped to become an elite professional boxer.