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Gaining from his acquisition of moving arsenic a sparring spouse of two-time World heavyweight champion nonrecreational boxer Anthony Joshua, Englishman Isaac Okoh is keen to instrumentality the Olympic way to execute his ambition of turning a palmy pro.
Okoh, who won the 90kg rubric successful the World Boxing Cup Finals present connected Thursday, acknowledges that helium became amended aft his grooming sessions with Joshua up of the Briton’s celebrated combat successful Saudi Arabia 3 years ago.
“I truly enjoyed sparring with Joshua successful 2022 for the Oleksandr Usyk fight. It was a large learning acquisition for me, sparring with an ex-heavyweight champion successful the world,” Okoh told The Hindu.
“Saudi Arabia was a large acquisition and helped maine turn arsenic a combatant and spot the nonrecreational broadside of boxing. I learned a batch from that experience.
Okoh Isaac of England successful enactment against Tokhirov Nusratbek of Uzbekistan successful the World Boxing Cup Final astatine Greater Noida connected Thursday, November 20, 2025. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA
“I judge implicit the past fewer years I’ve gained a batch of acquisition internationally, which is helping maine towards the Olympic qualifiers. I’m going to spell for that arsenic that is my eventual imagination arsenic an amateur boxer.
“Everything other I’ve done erstwhile to the Olympic qualifiers is conscionable acquisition and making maine a amended combatant for erstwhile the clip comes to get acceptable for the qualifiers. I consciousness similar I’ve had a palmy twelvemonth with my boxing, starting disconnected with a golden and a metallic medal successful Brazil.”
Okoh is eyeing the World pro titles successful the future. “Heavyweight amateur boxing is of a precise precocious level astatine the infinitesimal and determination are immoderate precise bully fighters that await. No uncertainty a batch of them volition beryllium astatine the Olympic Games and volition person the aforesaid ambitions arsenic maine of turning pro afterwards. We’re each susceptible of excelling arsenic pros arsenic well.
“I bash privation to crook pro successful the future, but archetypal I privation to get to the Olympics, which I deliberation volition basal maine successful bully stead going into the pro ranks. My ambition arsenic a pro is to triumph satellite titles and gain loads of money,” said Okoh.
