Artur Beterbiev v Joe Smith

[TitoFan]

Anybody that had Smith to win this fight was on drugs. lol....

Beterbeiv v Bivol was a fight we wanted to see for two years now. Canelo just tried to jump in and disrupt all of that. Glad Bivol beat him.

Canelo should forget about anything north of 168. He was able to pick off a timid, exposed, weak zebra in Kovalev and get his 175-pound trinket.

At some point he was even eyeing gimpy zebras at cruiserweight.

Hopefully that's all past history.

Bivol embarrassed him... and Beterbiev would bury him.

[TIC]

Anybody that had Smith to win this fight was on drugs. lol....

Beterbeiv v Bivol was a fight we wanted to see for two years now. Canelo just tried to jump in and disrupt all of that. Glad Bivol beat him.

Canelo should forget about anything north of 168. He was able to pick off a timid, exposed, weak zebra in Kovalev and get his 175-pound trinket.

At some point he was even eyeing gimpy zebras at cruiserweight.

Hopefully that's all past history.

Bivol embarrassed him... and Beterbiev would bury him.

i'd like to see canelo take the dmitry rematch, i'd also like to see canelo take on artur. i might have to reassess my original pick on that when if the fight happens. you can have your opinion on sergey but canelo took on a massive challenge in dmitry. i don't see anything embarrassing about losing to a really good fighter

[TIC]

artur seemed much quicker & his timing was exceptional

[TIC]

can we start to include artur among the biggest hitters of one seventy five yet?

[Master]

Briton Anthony Yarde is in line to fight the winner of Artur Beterbiev v Joe Smith later this year.

Yarde, 30, will be ringside for the light heavyweight unification match for the IBF, WBC and WBO belts on Saturday in New York.

Promoter Frank Warren says he has been in talks with Top Rank's Bob Arum, who promotes Beterbiev and Smith.

"It's more or less agreed - we're looking to fight the winner in October in London," Warren told BBC Sport.

"Bob and I have agreed we'll do the fight, but they're going to be ordered [to fight Yarde] anyway. It will be a great fight, whoever wins."

Russia's Beterbiev is the WBC and IBF champion, while American Smith holds the WBO belt. Yarde is the number one ranked contender to Smith's WBO title.

Beterbiev, 37, is undefeated with a perfect knockout ratio in 17 fights, while 32-year-old Smith has suffered three losses, including a 2019 defeat by WBA champion Dmitry Bivol.

Yarde has 22 wins and two losses in 24 fights. His most recent win was over Lyndon Arthur in December when he avenged his 2020 defeat by his British rival with a decisive knockout.

A fight against Beterbiev or Smith would be the second world title fight of Yarde's career. He lost his first shot at a world title against then WBO champion Sergey Kovalev in 2019.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/61840557

[TitoFan]

Yarde will ask for a 95-5 split in his favor and then say... oh well... I tried to make the fight.

[TIC]

Yarde will ask for a 95-5 split in his favor and then say... oh well... I tried to make the fight.

he needs to do something or i see it going like apollo v ivan