Comments Thread For: Sergey Kovalev Survives Scare, Knocks Anthony Yarde Out in 11th

[Roberto Vasquez]

I was impressed with Yarde here. I thought Kov would win within 5-7 rounds easily. Was a pretty good fight.

Yarde did the right thing taking this fight - he will learn more from this than any of his other fights against nobodies. A lot of young fighters think all they need is power and fitness and they can just power through anyone. You can tell them that's not true - but they never truly believe until they get shown otherwise.

[Boxing_1013]

I had the figth 6-4 in Kovalev's favor at the time of stoppage. I don't know why Yarde stopped throwing body punches. He had Kovalev hurt and tired and then stopped throwing body punches after the 8th lol. I thought Kov was gonna blow him away. I'm shocked at how competitive this was. I think Canelo stops kovalev.

Good post man I more or less agree with ya...I think Yarde punched himself out with trying to get the KO in the 8th...he had nothing left after that...those muscles don't do well stamina wise later in fights...and he had no experience of being that late in a fight...if he takes it well it should be invaluable experience for him...he looked impressive to me, rather than Kova looking that bad.

[Boxing_1013]

He kept Kova's right hand away well, takes a good shot too.

Needs to work on his jab.

Yeah he really seemed pretty comfortable in there...much more so than I was expecting...he can actually box pretty well, and is not just a body-builder type.

Maybe that bulky type of physique is good for giving body shots?...but maybe not for having a great jab...seems like most guys who I've seen with a great jab just have a long lean live arm.

Great fight though and this fight should be great experience for him...and great confidence for Kov...he had to go through some hell to win it.

[Eff Pandas]

The only problem I can see is that trust may have broken down between Yarde and Tunde now. Definitely, Yarde has the raw talent

What makes you think there is gonna be trust issues between Yarde & Tunde now. They seemed cool in the postfight stuff.

[Boxing_1013]

Well, that's Canelo's main problem

True..

He won’t have to
Canelo will **** that body from round #1
Kovi won’t enjoy that and Canelo will set himself up to power punches
Example today the only time Yarde had success was going to the body and then open up upstairs
Imo , Kovi does not like body shots but much less resistance from power shots to the head
Canelo will smell blood early on and take him out early

Man...it is so hard to get to the body against anyone early...especially a big puncher with a nice jab like Kovalev...very dangerous to go the body early against him

[HeadBodyBodyBody]

What makes you think there is gonna be trust issues between Yarde & Tunde now. They seemed cool in the postfight stuff.

well, for example, this:

I have nothing against tunde I just hate it when kids like yarde get taken advantage of and trust me that’s just what happened to this young fighter! I want people to see what has gone on here

— Kevin Mitchell (@KevinMitchell6) August 24, 2019

[Nomadic]

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🎤🇷🇺 Yes, that absolutely is Roy Jones Jr putting on a live performance of 'Can't Be Touched' and 'Y'all Must've Forgot' in Chelyabinsk, Russia at the Sergey Kovalev vs Anthony Yarde weigh-in today. pic.twitter.com/bu4aC5m0tQ

— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) August 23, 2019

Wow! Roy still getting it in.

[MrShakeAndBake]

Andre Ward,

Listen Bro, come on out of retirement take two tune ups and send Kovalev to retirement please.

RoFL this silly fool.
It looks like Krusher send wart into retirement aint it lol

[Eff Pandas]

Yarde is finished.

Guy almost beat the guy who a lot of people on this site had beating Ward & he's finished now. That seems an extreme take.

I think he's just getting started.

I wouldn't disagree he's never likely to be the #1 guy in the division, but he's got a solid top ten caliber guy future I feel like & he could still win a belt eventually. Granted I don't think I'd pick him over any of the other 3 title holders, but I'm sure there'll be weaker links over time & I suspect he'll improve more off of this L than he did off of all his previous W's so who knows where his future leads.

[jbpanama]

I mean do you reallllllly think thats all this was. The guy was a 2-1 dog & almost won the fight & had his opponents trainer bringing up stopping the fight.

I think most people have a more positive opinion after this L by Yarde then had in his previous dozen & change W's.

I think you are overall right, but I don't believe today is a great example of that. Yarde will be back. He's gonna be a top ten guy for a nice period of his career & maybe title holder one day.

Lacks Stamina and Punch resistance...

Put a fork in Him...