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

[Corelone]

How can Hearn create an Olympic champion. A world silver medallist that should have been gold. And a unified Heavyweight champion with by far the best resume at the weight with wins over Wlad, Whyte, Parker and Povetkin? He was also willing to fight the other top fighters at the weight with huge money on offer. That's all AJ. Nothing to do with Hearn as he can't step in and win him fights can he?

Sorry, but as I said, you're talking bollocks as per usual.

However, you said 90% of our fighters. So, who are these fighters?

If you want to name fighters without balls, look no further than every American out there. The cowardice is off the hook.

Let's move on. What do you think of Yards chances and will you be happy if he wins?

[Nash out]

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'm English, have seen a lot of Yarde, he's big, strong, very muscular and has a resume that doesn't really tell you much. But he's been doing all he can do which is win.

I don't see anything in him thus far that suggests he can beat Kovalev, but I worry about Kovalev's mental state in a crisis. I'm also not sure how seriously Kovalev will take this fight. He's a strange one Kovalev, at his best he's elite, I thought he beat Andre Ward in the first fight, then he gets knocked out by Elieder, who's fringe world level and not a big puncher.

Kovalev is also a very old 36. By all accounts a massive drinker, so he could decline at a massive rate at any time. It's an interesting fight. But I think Kovalev's punching power will take effect quite early in this fight, but if it doesn't it will get interesting.

[Corelone]

I'm English, have seen a lot of Yarde, he's big, strong, very muscular and has a resume that doesn't really tell you much. But he's been doing all he can do which is win.

I don't see anything in him thus far that suggests he can beat Kovalev, but I worry about Kovalev's mental state in a crisis. I'm also not sure how seriously Kovalev will take this fight. He's a strange one Kovalev, at his best he's elite, I thought he beat Andre Ward in the first fight, then he gets knocked out by Elieder, who's fringe world level and not a big puncher.

Kovalev is also a very old 36. By all accounts a massive drinker, so he could decline at a massive rate at any time. It's an interesting fight. But I think Kovalev's punching power will take effect quite early in this fight, but if it doesn't it will get interesting.

Kovalev got knocked out by a guy with half a hand and had to settle for a "stylish" win in the rematch. Sergei amazed everybody when he started flitting around like a butterfly, but it wasn't convincing, he moved to be moving, he never showed any power. I know the last thing to go is the punch, but if you can't take it any more, you have other issues.

[BLASTER1]

He just doesn't seem like the real deal to me. The way his career has been about just knocking out tomato cans, and now his big title shot. Why has he not been put in with a decent contender or an ex - champion to measure how ready he is, like every fighter should before their first title shot.
175 is a hard weight class at world level with big punchers, I'm just not convinced Yarde can compete with the likes of Gvozdyk, Beterbiev etc. He's just not earned my backing yet in the ring, I'm like that with every fighter- I need to see they actually have the goods.
If Kovalev isn't shot, we'll get to see if Yarde can hang with a live dog in this fight. If he does, then I'll have faith in him to compete with the rest.
Just looking good knocking out hand picked opponents doesn't really mean anything.

Tell that to Davis and his team.
Pls tell me your not Davis fan..

[deathofaclown]

Al those saying Yarde has no chance will just say Kovalev was shot to bits if Yarde wins. He won’t get the credit.

Anyway nobody really knows how good he is. His level of opposition tell us nothing except he can punch and is a good finisher too.

[Sid-Knee]

Let's move on. What do you think of Yards chances and will you be happy if he wins?

You want to move on because I've asked you to back up your constant slander that you throw at us?

This is an admittance of guilt. You can't answer to your constant bollocks so you're trying to wriggle out of it. Pathetic.

[MASTER OF you]

Al those saying Yarde has no chance will just say Kovalev was shot to bits if Yarde wins. He won’t get the credit.

Anyway nobody really knows how good he is. His level of opposition tell us nothing except he can punch and is a good finisher too.

yarde hasn't knocked out any top level fighters so how do we know he's a good puncher those guys he has fought are not even domestic level even the british fans say he has yet to beat a top 50 opponent! we can all agree that kovalev is past his prime at this point however kovalev isn't even close to being shot to bits either if yarde wins he will get credit. like you said we'll find out how good yarde is against kovalev.

[Thuglife Nelo]

Damn! Yarde would’ve taken a nice step aside from GBP. Instead he chose to get sparked by an alcoholic one hitter quitter jab artist!