Did USYK Get Knocked Out In Sparring

Professional boxer Martin Bakole, who has been one of Oleksander Usyk's sparring partners has come out and said that he knocked out / stopped USYK in one of their sparring sessions.  He also claimed to have stopped Daniel Dubois is sparring also. Martin Bakole is in the who needs him club. While he has had one or two decent wins, the most recent being a good, dominant performance over French Heavyweight Tony Yoka, Bakole's boxing career has been quite slow. He is yet to really prove himself against the top fighters. And him and his team are confident and very eager to take on the best in the division and get his name more well-known.

So his revelations on these sparring sessions are seen by some as an attempt to market himself and increase his profile. Are the rumours true, who knows for sure. But sparring is sparring. It's not the same as an all-out fight under the bright lights. In some ways Martin Bakole has shot himself in the foot, because its unlikely now that both USYK and Dubois would welcome him back into a training camp after this. Unless they either don't care about him saying this, have trouble finding good sparring partners, or they wanted to spar him again to set the record straight. 

But like the old saying goes: What happens in the gym stays in the gym. Or, that's how it used to be at least. Fighters are violating that rule more and more. These days there's a new boxer coming out every week with a sparring story about how they buzzed or put someone down.

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