While flipping burgers in McDonald’s, I found my ambition and now I’m a boxing champion. Okolie writes: “I’m proud of the changes I’ve made to my life. Self-help bookĪlongside his boxing, Okolie is releasing an autobiographical self-help book next month entitled Dare to Change Your Life (Penguin). Also called Littleleaf Boxwood, this species is among the most cold-hardy, disease-resistant, and easy-to-grow of all ornamental boxwood. Japanese Boxwood (Buxus microphylla) is a broadleaf evergreen shrub with small glossy green leaves. “That’s the fight we want to see,” Hearn told the BBC. Japanese boxwood plants are an attractive and low-maintenance choice for home landscaping, including when grown in containers and when planted as a low hedge. However, fans – and Okolie’s promoter, Eddie Hearn – hope that a battle against 37-year-old Latvian IBF champion Mairis Breidis is on the cards. Okolie’s next opponent is undetermined, but possible challengers include Congolese WBC champion Ilunga Makabu, French WBA ‘Super’ champion Arsen Goulamirian, or British boxers Chris Billam-Smith or Richard Riakporhe. What’s next for Okolie?Īfter his Sunday win, Okolie has the opportunity to unify the division, which is to win two or more of the major sanctioning titles in a division: World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF), The Ring, and WBO. Since his 2018 debut, Okolie – nicknamed ‘The Sauce’ – has risen through the boxing ranks to become a world-recognized force, ranked as the world’s third best active cruiserweight by The Ring as of February 2022. “I eat all the wonderful fruit and vegetables out there, rice, grains – basically stuff that gives me energy to train but then it’s not as hard to process in my body,” said Okolie. On his diet, Okolie told Sky that he is “mainly vegan”, not eating “meat, fish, eggs, or cow’s milk”, and has found that a plant-based diet helps with weight maintenance and improves his energy levels.
So far, Alvarez only attacking in bursts once he has Plant on the ropes.
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Okolie – who was born in Hackney, London to Nigerian parents – has followed a plant-based diet since he became a professional boxer in 2017. Plant used the jab to set up lefts to the body and stayed away from any danger. On the undercard, another British vegan boxer, Olympian Cheavon Clarke, made his professional debut with an explosive victory against Croatian Toni Visi. It may not have been his greatest performance to date, but Okolie remains an undefeated world champion, now with 18 consecutive wins as a professional boxer. “I will go back to the gym, go again and make it right the next time,” Okolie added. This was one of those days where it was tough, awkward, and the guy was physically strong, but I need to work on the mentality that it doesn’t need to be perfect. Okolie told 5 Live Boxing: “It was a flat performance and I allowed it to get messy. Okolie, 29, fought Polish boxer Michal Cieslak, flooring him in the fifth round of a battle that BBC Sport called ‘comfortable yet scrappy’. The 29-year-old took to Twitter to share pictures of training at the gym with the former boxer. The fight aired live on Showtime pay-per-view.
Plant doesn’t want to leave any stone unturned prior to his super fight with Alvarez. David Benavidez (27-0) and Caleb Plant (22-2) faced off in the night’s main event with the WBC interim super middleweight title on the line. Referee Harvey Dock instantly waved off the fight at 2:57 of Round 9 before wrapping his arms around Plant, who was being booed by the crowd for a celebration that included him digging the fallen Dirrell's grave in effigy.Plant-based British boxer Lawrence Okolie retained his World Boxing Organization (WBO) cruiserweight world title on February 27, after securing it last year. Caleb Plant is honing his boxing skills with former undefeated American boxer, Andre Ward, before he shares the ring with Saul Canelo Alvarez on November 6. The 30-year-old Plant, in his first fight since losing his IBF title to Canelo Alvarez last November in their undisputed title bout, broke open a physical and sometimes dirty bout with Dirrell (34-3-2, 25 KOs) by knocking the 38-year-old former two-time WBC champion out cold with a left hook to the body followed by a flush left to the chin. The bad blood between former super middleweight titleholders Caleb Plant and Anthony Dirrell throughout fight week spilled over into the ring on Saturday in their co-main event on the PBC on Fox pay-per-view card.Īlthough he is known much more as a slick boxer, Plant (22-1, 13 KOs) was able to laugh last by delivering a knockout of the year candidate in Round 9 to bring an end to their 168-pound bout inside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
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