Comments Thread For: Sergey Kovalev vs. Anthony Yarde is Ordered By WBO

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The World Boxing Organization has officially ordered a light heavyweight contest between WBO world champion Sergey Kovalev and undefeated top challenger Anthony Yarde. The sanctioning body advised the parties that they have thirty (30) days to negotiate and reach an agreement. If an agreement is not reached within the time frame set, a purse bid will be ordered pursuant with the WBO Regulations of World Championship Contests.
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[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Interesting. Although I don’t think Yarde is ready yet

[CoachMac34]

Kovalev by KO! Too much experience for the young, raw challenger.

[PeteHW]

Hats off if he actually takes it. I doubt it but Kovalev is on the downhill and probably the most beatable champion. If they wait someone else is gonna beat Kova and it is gonna be way harder to grab a belt.

[pillowfists98]

Good! Yarde asked for it, lets see what he can do.

[AdonisCreed]

Yarde is going to ripped in this fight it'll be a good teaching moment as long as he doesn't get caught with a vicious ko

[AdonisCreed]

Good for Yarde stepping up to the plate might I add. This will show us what he's made of.

[Mammoth]

Tarde gets ****ed up by Kov

[Boxing Logic]

WBO doing things right for a change. The champion is ready to fight his mandatory. His schedule has a lot more money riding on it, a lot more legacy riding on it at this point in his career compared to Yarde at this point in Yarde's career, and he has a lot less time in the sport to accomplish his goals than Yarde does. So either the mandatory is ready to fight the champion at the time the champion, and the sanctioning body, are ready to get the mandatory done with, or why the ***** is he the mandatory? If his intention was to eventually be mandatory for the title in a year or two, and fight for the title then, then he should be ranked #2 or #3, not #1, so that someone who is actually willing to be the mandatory, and willing to fight the champion, can fight the champion now.

Otherwise, where is the line drawn? Teofimo Lopez is a great rising prospect. He's only 20 years old, but by the time he's 25 years old, he may be ready to move up a few weight classes and challenge the champion at 154 lbs. So, let's put Teofimo Lopez as the mandatory to Jarrett Hurd at 154 right now. We won't order it for another 5 years, until Teofimo is ready, but because we recognize his talent, he deserves to reserve the #1 spot until he is ready to take the fight.

That's what Yarde is trying to do. Reserve his mandatory position for the future even though he's not ready to use it yet. Ridiculous. That blocks out other actually ready boxers from the opportunity that you aren't even ready to take yet. That the WBO would allow this even for a second is ridiculous. **** or get off the pot!

[Madison Boxing]

Dont rule out yarde....