Comments Thread For: Anthony Yarde Returns With Win, Gets Two-Round Stoppage In Spain

[Eff Pandas]

Commissions and matchmaking like this is what gets people killed in the ring.

People always say this but it doesn't ring true in reality. Reality says severe injuries & deaths happen in the ring when both guys are similar skilled & are both trying to win. I'm not saying they never happen in mismatches but it's far far more likely to occur in competitive or more evenly matched fights if you look at the people who've been involved in tragic fights.

[Eff Pandas]

4-49??
That is insane that the man is granted a license to box.

Agree. I think guys with obnoxiously bad records like this should be suspended longer after too many L's & basically slowly weeded out of the sport. I think anyone with a losing record shouldn't be allowed to fight beyond the 4 rd level.

[anonymous2.0]

People always say this but it doesn't ring true in reality. Reality says severe injuries & deaths happen in the ring when both guys are similar skilled & are both trying to win. I'm not saying they never happen in mismatches but it's far far more likely to occur in competitive or more evenly matched fights if you look at the people who've been involved in tragic fights.

This. Its not like the guy took 18 minutes of a sustained beating, he got dropped and was stopped in under 6 minutes.

[anonymous2.0]

WBO rules state you must be coming off a win to be able to be involved in their title fights –– hence the overseas six-rounder for Yarde –– and Warren and the team will be hoping that the lofty ranking that their man regained as a result of the under-the-radar victory will pave the way to a quick-fire come back to the upper echelons of the 175-pound division.

WBO should alter or get rid of this rule otherwise we're going to starting seeing a lot more of fighters who lost a WBO title fight then fights a F class fighter and is right back in the WBO title mix. All it does is waste people's time.

[Deont]

How impressive.

[P4Pdunny]

4-49-3? I'd probably beat this guy too.

Had no idea Yarde was even fighting.