Joe Joyce breaks silence on sparring session with Martin Bakole and explains the REAL reason the Congo fighter was sick

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Joe Joyce has hit back at fellow heavyweight contender Martin Bakole for releasing a clip of their recent sparring session and has told the story of how the dust-up really went down.Glasgow-based boxer Bakole leaked a video on social media which showed the Congo fighter getting the better of 2016 Olympic bronze medalist Joyce, with Bakole adding the caption: "This is the reason why UK heavyweights are avoiding me guys." However, Joyce's Sam Jones, didn't see the funny side of the stunt, and replied to the post with a video of Bakole throwing up into a bucket during the session, captioning the clip with the message: "Next time don’t be a Jackanory posting sparring highlights @MartinBakole01".And now Joyce - who is preparing to bounce back from his two losses to Chinese heavyweight Zheli Zang when he faces fellow British boxer Kash Ali in Birmingham tomorrow night - has revealed that Bakole had to go to the bucket because of the damage he was doing to him in the ring.Speaking to iFL TV, Joyce, who has previously spared both Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury, said: "It's not good practise to be leaking sparring footage and I don't agree with it as it's in bad taste."I saw that he put the video Sam put up of him on Twitter this morning.

You can see in the video that he (Bakole) put up that he was wearing different clothes as he had a black top on when he was actually sick and had to stop the spar."That was because I kept lining him up with body shots.

Maybe he wants a fight with me. I guess he wants to build his name and it has gone to plan. But it hasn't made him look better morally."There have been calls from many fans and people in boxing circles for Joyce to hang up his gloves, but the 38-year-old has played down that notion