Joe Joyce To Get Olympic Gold Medal After Controversial Loss To Be Overturned

Joe Joyce may very well be receiving an Olympic gold medal.

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Joyce suffered one of the most scandalous results in Olympic boxing history, as he lost a decision to Tony Yoka. Immediately many took to social media to say it was rigged and it was a terrible decision. However, Sportsmail understands that the Joyce result will feature in Thursday’s report published by Richard McLaren — whose revelations about Russia’s state-sponsored doping program saw that country barred from competition. The report says that McLaren and his team centres on whether boxers of certain nationalities were favoured by referees and judges in Rio as France and Uzbekistan won more bouts than the best boxing nations.

For Joyce, if the report does prove there was fight fixing his silver medal would be upgraded to a gold medal. By all accounts, it does appear there was fight fixing and the medals will change five years later.

Joe Joyce (13-0) is coming off a TKO win over Carlos Takam in July of 2021. Prior to that, he scored an upset KO win over Daniel Dubois in November of 2020. He’s currently the Commonwealth, WBC Silver and WBO International heavyweight champion.

Joyce’s promoter, Frank Warren said he wants to keep Joyce active and after his win in July hinted at a return in October. Yet, nothing is finalized but Warren says he likes what he has seen from Joyce.

“Inevitably, these things take time to come around, so the plan is to keep Big Joe busy and have him out again in October against an opponent of a similar high calibre,” Warren wrote on BoxingScene. “Joe didn’t have it all his own way against Takam, with most of the rounds being close and the veteran Frenchman landing a few bombs along the way. It is the way Joe shrugs off such heavy artillery that is really remarkable and he barely takes a backward step.”

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