Comments Thread For: Anthony Yarde on Callum Smith: Beterbiev Walked Through Him; That Gave Me a Lot of Credit

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Anthony Yarde feels his stock rose in the wake of Artur Beterbiev's vicious beatdown of Callum Smith. Yarde, London, England, arguably gave Beterbiev, the IBF, WBC, WBO light heavyweight champion from Russia, the toughest outing in the ring in recent memory. The two went toe to toe in one of the more entertaining fights of 2023, but Beterbiev pulled away late, stopping Yarde in the eighth round. Yarde, however, was leading on two scorecards.
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[Oldskoolg]

Always thought the hype behind Callum smith was weird. Never got on the hype train myself

[Apollo7]

You only lasted one more round.

[ultravividscene]

Always thought the hype behind Callum smith was weird. Never got on the hype train myself

It's perfectly fine to like, follow and rally behind boxers that aren't gonna be ATG's you know

[_Rexy_]

Always thought the hype behind Callum smith was weird. Never got on the hype train myself

People see he won the WBSS tournament and don’t realize he fought two unranked guys to get to the finals and then beat an incredibly shot and injured Groves


so they see he got the WBSS tournament and think he’s the same breed as Usyk and Inoue

[Oldskoolg]

People see he won the WBSS tournament and don’t realize he fought two unranked guys to get to the finals and then beat an incredibly shot and injured Groves


so they see he got the WBSS tournament and think he’s the same breed as Usyk and Inoue

Makes sense, fair play

[Oldskoolg]

It's perfectly fine to like, follow and rally behind boxers that aren't gonna be ATG's you know

Absolutely. But don’t put a lump of dog shoite on toast and claim it’s Ossetra

[_Rexy_]

Makes sense, fair play

Plus he KO’d Rocky Fielding. Whenever you KO a former Canelo opponent it’s overhyped to all hell.

[garfios]

People see he won the WBSS tournament and don’t realize he fought two unranked guys to get to the finals and then beat an incredibly shot and injured Groves


so they see he got the WBSS tournament and think he’s the same breed as Usyk and Inoue

A flashy tournament with no real fighters, unlike the one Ward won a few years back.

[daggum]

those cards were pretty bad although he did do better than callum smith but so did everyone?