Comments Thread For: Yarde: I Laughed at Step Aside Offers - I Wanted Kovalev in Russia

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Light heavyweight contender Anthony Yarde reveals that he rejected several step-aside offers, to back away from his mandatory shot at WBO world champion Sergey Kovalev. Yarde will travel to Russia on August 24, to challenge Kovalev for his world title.
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Thats nonsense, Frank Warren said they was willing to step aside if Kov wanted to go for the Canelo fight. Kathy Duva said it didnt make financial sense to pay such a large sum to yarde (over a million $), when they could just wait it out and box canelo after. Kov has to be taking this fight seriously, he knows Canelo wants him next and thats a massive payday.

[Rip Chudd]

And now he gets to go to Russia and get knocked out by Kovalev.

[SteveAnitaSmith]

I've never seen this dude fight, but a lot of English dudes say hes no good. Can someone shed some objective light on how good he is?

[Bmore18]

No one believes this. He was ready to take step aside $$ if Kovalev fought Canelo, even Warren said so

[1hourRun]

Dust in the wind, a silent fart was the boxing career of Anthony Yarde.

[JohnCastellanos]

Damn how much was that? 7 million to YARDe and 7 million to kovalev. Bossnelly really serious about fight krusher

[Corelone]

I've never seen this dude fight, but a lot of English dudes say hes no good. Can someone shed some objective light on how good he is?

I don't undestand English boxing fans. Yarde has more balls than 90% of of those guys. They bleed ink and humiliate themselves for pitty pat punchers and home town heros. Yarde is thier chance at a believable champion and they put him down. Yarde, if you read this, get your ass to work.

[A.K]

He’s a real tough guy who needs step aside money

[Corelone]

Yarde doesn't like to get hit, but he comes to drop bombs. He is quick and heavy handed. He looks muscle bound, so far I don't see any I'll effects. Compared to Kovalev, he might be faster and he is fresher by a mile. My only concern is him on the road. Somebody else told all the dirty tricks, like tooting horns to break his sleep, but that's the road.