Comments Thread For: Photos: Artur Beterbiev, Anthony Yarde - Face To Face in London

[dan_cov]

Do you think Yardes improved?

Significantly. He fights with more purpose and substance, maturity.
I also think Kovalev and Beterbiev are totally different fighters, different styles.

What has typically troubled Yarde in the past isn't what Beterbiev is renowned for. Its tall, rangy jabbers that have neutralised Yarde but that isn't to say he can't be beaten in other ways but for me we cannot look at Yardes losses and take much from them.

I think this is a dangerous fight for an aging Beterbiev.
I feel a lot are looking too much into Yardes losses and writing Yarde off without looking at styles and Yardes advantages.

[alexguiness]

Yarde is terrible TBH.

I can't understand how anyone can rate the guy, total hype job.

[lopetego]

Garbage fight that nobody wants to see

Beterbiev and Bivol must stop ****ing around and fight each other

that's the ONLY fight both fighters should be thinking about

the only fight that matters at LHW

Beterbiev and Arum must grow some balls and fight Bivol, or retire already

[Smash]

hes in yardes yard now

[Superbee]

So we're up for 2 months of "Too Old", "Too slow", "Chinny", "No defense" ? Rinse/Repeat... Yarde will regret asking for this fight ... He has nothing to worry Artur... Probably Beterbiev easiest fight since Koelling...

[Silence]

Yarde might drop him before the inevitable.

[Smash]

nobody messes with yardie yarde in his yard

[Ghost Jab]

Artur Beterbiev is boxing’s hardest puncher.

He has a record of 18-0 with 18 KOs, and his KO percentage currently stands at an astonishing 100%.

Every brave man who has stepped into the ring opposite him has failed to make it to the final bell, with Beterbiev stopping them all in devastating fashion.

In his last fight, Beterbiev faced off against former world champion Joe Smith, who hails from where my family is from, and it was clear from the opening bell that Beterbiev was the far superior fighter.

He battered Smith around the ring for two brutal rounds in his hometown stadium, humiliating him in front of his woman, his family, and his friends. Joe Smith made a valiant attempt but could not compete with Beterbiev, who genuinely seemed to enjoy toying with him like a cat toys with a mouse, before finally putting him down for good with a devastating right hand.

Beterbiev is SO GOOD that he sent the legendary Oleksandr Gvozdyk, an elite boxer puncher who many believe was better than prime Sergei Kovalev, into an early retirement due to the damage he took in their fight, in which Beterbiev knocked him down multiple times and ended up sending him to the hospital.

Beterbiev’s power is undeniable, and I believe that he will demolish Antony Yarde inside six rounds.

While Yarde is a good fighter, he has never faced anyone with the kind of power that Beterbiev possesses.

I expect Beterbiev to hurt Yarde early and often before finally putting him away in the sixth round.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Artur Beterbiev is boxing’s hardest puncher. It’s not Wilder, it’s not GGG, it’s not anyone else. It’s Artur Beterbiev and I don’t think anyone will be able to beat him from this generation of boxers, except for potentially the Great Dimitri Bivol.

[Smash]

anthony is going to take out the trash, with his yarde brush

[Opti500]

i don't get it when people talking about Yard improvment ?, who he fought since his loss with Kovalev ?, yet he lost against a pelerin who lost his way.
I fear for him.