[ad_1] Jordan Gill (Former European featherweight champion) Yarde really impressed me and I thought he was slightly up (on the scorecards) at the time of the stoppage. His fighting spirit and the heart he showed should be enough to earn anyone’s respect. I’m a fan! Beterbiev is elite, but Yarde really pushed him in his hardest fight to date. It …

[ad_1] 1 The fight deserved more attention Overshadowed sadly by Chris Eubank Jnr’s first stoppage defeat, and, on the night, the confirmation of a farce between Jake Paul and Tommy Fury, Beterbiev and Yarde had to go out and force people to take notice of them. 2 Yarde has improved since Kovalev defeat It was hard to tell based on …

[ad_1] CONTROVERSIAL decisions seem to be quite commonplace in boxing today. This is hardly surprising given the way in which virtually every high-level contest can be watched live, and its outcome debated on any number of social media platforms. Referees and judges have never been under more scrutiny than they are today. Fifty years ago there was far less boxing …

[ad_1] WHEN it was first announced that Artur Beterbiev’s light-heavyweight title defence against Anthony Yarde would be broadcast on BT Sport rather than on Box Office, the news was met with universal praise among boxing fans. Here was one of the best fighters on the planet, a true terror, coming to England and defending his crown against a popular, marketable …

[ad_1] AS revealing as the performance itself, the look on Anthony Yarde’s face in the aftermath of defeat to Artur Beterbiev said it all, both in terms of how close he had come and the competitive nature of his mindset. For despite having pushed Beterbiev close, and despite being ahead on two of the three scorecards at the time he …

[ad_1] THE Artur Beterbiev-shaped mountain that Anthony Yarde stands beneath is substantial. On rare occasion, we have seen similar sized peaks scaled but the sheer height of the climb, particularly for the uninitiated, generally proves too much. Such would appear the case this weekend when Yarde, 23-2 (22), challenges the fearsome world light-heavyweight champion inside Wembley Arena in North London. …

[ad_1] Wayne Alexander (Former European super-welterweight champion) I expect them to put on a good and exciting fight because both have aggressive, big-punching styles. Yarde has some good KO stats and is younger and hungry, but Berterbiev has a 100 percent KO record against better opponents. That’s why I believe that after a hard-fought first half of the fight Artur’s …

[ad_1] ONE way of reducing the magnitude, and indeed danger, of what is to come is to reimagine the threat as something you have seen before; a threat no different than the previous one you conquered. Even if it amounts to a lie, or a delusion, this will allow you to think, behave and function as before, never giving the …

[ad_1] THERE was a moment during the build-up to Chris Eubank Jnr’s fourth-round stoppage loss against Liam Smith when an all-too-familiar feeling, one I had last experienced before the previous fight Eubank Jnr had scheduled, washed over me. It was, to put it mildly, a feeling of ickiness; the feeling of being in the wrong place at the wrong time; …

[ad_1] DON’T LET the bloodcurdling look in his eyes fool you. Artur Beterbiev may stare down his opponents like a butcher surveys a carcass but the emotions flickering away at the back of his mind are familiar to us all. Few of us, however, are able to weaponise these feelings the way the Russian can. “You have to feel fear …