A former professional boxer meets the top name in Finnish freestyle wrestling.
Juho Tolppola44, will return to the ring next week Saturday at the Ice Cage 7 event at the Nokia Arena.
Tolppola meets a freestyle star by Abdul Hussein28. The sport is boxing.
– If I lose to him, I’ll walk out of there in a huff – wearing Crocs! Tolppola announces Ice Cage in a video.
Tolppola last competed in 2015.
The striker’s professional career, nicknamed TNT, lasted 14 years and included 33 matches, 25 of which ended in victory. Tolppola has six losses in his statistics, but he has never been knocked out.
As an amateur, Tolppola won EC bronze in 2000.
Juho Tolppola photographed in 2014. Timo Korhonen/AOP
