Yarde's trainer has a self-devised boxing system & school of thought

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Called it b4 the fight, there is delusion in the camp, not just 'lions'.

Yarde needs to gtfo if he knows what's good for him. Call me Nostradamus

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Look I'll be real. No professional boxing guy will give you a perfect hook in a fight lol. No matter how graceful your technique is, driven from the ankle to capture the perfect space moment of kinetic energy. His drill system failed him in the fight quite glaringly. Because its based on an optimal world(lala land)... that that's just where it ended. Yarde won 1 round maybe at the beginning and was out of range absorbing jabs while trying to counter with a left hook. 6 rounds of that! By the 7th he finally took a different approach to slip to the inside giving Kovalev some uncertainty with the newly added slot. And then Kovalev stopped throwing his jab, took body shots and then got to be "almost knocked out". Swimming in Olympics: the difference in determining winning from losing on average is 3 strokes... water boils at 212 degrees F not 211. An almost knock out, while suffering a jab knock out and doing so by thoroughly being out boxed isn't a close fight. There wasn't even a knock down, so almost for me is a stretch. By round 9 Kovalev had adapted by putting together right hooks to his body and face every time Yarde came to the inside. After that the fight was over. Couldn't beat Kovalev on inside or outside range in any trade.This was because his coach's system only works in a perfect world. Kovalev isn't perfect, in fact his responses aren't always optimal. But he's a better professional all around. He can deal with the reality of solving problems in real time. Not by imagining and having a predetermined solution to a fight. That's rigid, and why you'd have Yarde trying to counter aimlessly for 6 rounds LMAO Because he was already thinking in a biased manner, that "this left hook will solve my jab problems", but reality didn't play out that way. He had a perfect hook for a couple of rounds, probably didn't get to factor in fatigue and punishment to the equation though.

He tried to use one technique, which wasn't effective, and then switched to a different technique, which was effective.

Cut the jab short with your own jab, instead of catching the jab on the shoulders; technique is still technique.

Anthony Yarde is clearly missing that experience; took to boxing late with all of 12 amateur fights, barely 4 years as a professional, still all of 28 years old.

Passing on a title shot wasn't going to happen, but pause for a moment and think:

Yarde is made mandatory challenger in March 2019, and the WBO let's Warren pull some **** and set the mandatory defense for March 2020 ( in Russia).

To prepare, Yarde fights Chad Dawson and Sullivan Barrera (ability is whatever, but guys can fight, and both can change the look) without changing anything else.

No real extra sparring, live experience versus live bodies, and then Kovalev.

Maybe he can manage his wind better, and maybe he moves to C and D quicker, but I don't think that the system was the problem for him, and I think that'd show it.