Artur Beterbiev.v Anthony Yarde

[KickMuck]

[QUOTE=Ron Swanson;1592151]

Partially I started to think higher of Yarde’s will, then he just allowed that damage at the end of the 7th which was completely unnecessary and I think if he had as much will he wouldn’t have allowed that. Felt like accepting defeat in a way.

Pretty much the same as all Beterbievs oppnents so far.

[TIC]

for anyone still needing to watch

[Big J]

The talk that Callum Smith beats Beterbiev needs to stop

[Master]

The talk that Callum Smith beats Beterbiev needs to stop

Tony Bellew talking and spreading rubbish as usual.

[Master]

After beating Mathieu Bauderlique last August, an impressive four-round knockout win, Liverpool's Callum Smith is the mandatory challenger for Beterbiev's WBC title.

Smith expects to take a tune-up fight in March, and then push for his shot at the unified champion.

"I've done my part. I've become mandatory so I can sit and wait and fight for three of the belts," he told Sky Sports.

He wants a respectable opponent in the spring - "it's got to be an opponent that makes me want to get into camp, makes me want to train hard" - even though it will be a fight Smith cannot afford to lose.

"It's a bit of a tricky one. But if I'm good enough to beat Beterbiev, which I believe I am, I should be good enough to beat anyone else I the meantime, as long as I stay focused and motivated," Smith said.

"I feel like I am, I feel like I'm enjoying training more. I feel like I'm enjoying the improvements I'm making. I should be okay."

As formidable as Beterbiev looks, Smith, a former super-middleweight champion, believes he has all the tools to defeat him.

"I believe I can beat anyone on the planet," Smith declared. "I believe I can win the belts as well."

"He's European style, applies pressure but doesn't just race forward, he's clever how he does it and obviously heavy-handed," Smith continued. "He has been hurt, he's been put over twice as a professional and he's not invincible.

"I've seen other fighters hurt him and put him over, I fully believe I can.

"I'm in my peak years now and the time to beat him is now."

Smith will go wherever he needs to to get the fight.

"I'm the challenger. I'm not going to be able to call many shots. I think if we don't come to an agreement it goes to purse bids anyway regardless. I just want to fight," he said.

"I don't think the venue matters too much to myself. I'll fight, whether I have to go to America for it, England, either or. I just want that fight. That's the goal. That's why I'm still boxing. That's why I'm going away to camp. It's to be a two-weight world champion.

"I've always believed I'm good enough and big enough to do it. I made the decision move up, carry on and I'm very close to achieving it."

He'll pursue that goal, even it means taking on one of the most ferocious punchers in the sport.

"I'm in boxing because when I'm done I want to sit back and say I achieved everything I was capable of doing," Smith said.

"Once you've been at that level you're not really satisfied with anything less. So if I didn't believe I could get back to where I was, I wouldn't be sitting here."

Thinking of his own youth advantage compared to the 38-year-old champion, he added with a smile: "Age is age. It will catch up to him at some point. And hopefully it's the week before he fights me!"

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/boxi...e306eacded9682

[Master]

Yarde’s ability to compete against world class fighters and he certainly impressed Beterbiev.

“I had good moments, I could’ve won that fight and changed my life forever,” Yarde told talkSPORT.

“I’ve changed my life anyway, but I could’ve had that celebration that I had in my mind.

“I didn’t go out there and embarrass myself, I’m getting a lot of credit for doing that to someone like Beterbiev.

“So I think it’s a win-win for me.”

Yarde went on to reveal what Beterbiev had said to him after the fight, saying: “There’s a lot of respect.

“He just said, ‘No-one’s given me that test as a professional.’

“So there’s a lot of respect there. They said they’d prepared for me, but they didn’t know what to expect.

“They knew I was hungry, but they didn’t expect that hard of a fight.

“But he said that he turned professional when he was 28 and I’m 31 now, so I’ve got time.”

Yarde was winning on two of the three judges scorecards, with one judge putting the Brit up by three rounds.

https://talksport.com/sport/boxing/1...ko-highlights/

[TIC]

The talk that Callum Smith beats Beterbiev needs to stop

Tony Bellew talking and spreading rubbish as usual.

callum can't handle educated aggression as canelo & the gorilla showed. artur will mince that body

[Ron Swanson]

The judge that had Yarde ahead 3 rounds should be forced to explain their card

[TIC]

The judge that had Yarde ahead 3 rounds should be forced to explain their card

agreed