Artur Beterbiev.v Anthony Yarde

[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!"

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[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

[TIC]

i've always felt that canelo matches up better with artur than dmitry but it's getting to the point where he wouldn't get credit if he fought him

[Denilson3.0]

Incredible fight, spartan attitude, kill or be killed

Beterbiev seems to get even more dangerous once he gets tagged but having said that he can hit going backwards but he can't box going bkwards but Biev does what Biev does same as always. He just grinds his opponents down. He’s not getting any younger though…one day he'll go to the well and find it dry…but not just yet.

Respect to Yarde. He done way better than I thought and I read people say "Biev was not hurt"

Yes he was.

But ppl are tricked because Biev has a great poker face.

Boxing is a lot like poker, in that you can't let your opponent know what you have in your hands. If an opponent doesn't think you have anything that he should be worried about, he's gonna kick your ass. You need to present the aura of danger in order to keep your man from calling your bluff.

Alongside Biev. him and Joe Joyce currently have the two best poker faces in boxing.

But neither of them compare to the three ATG best poker faces I've seen in boxing in my lifetime.

1. James Toney (Best poker face in boxing history)
2. Miguel Cotto (Even in his fight with Torres. He was in trouble. He was on the floor. He came back and KO-ED him. Face never changed)
3. Gerald McClellan (Even when he went down on his knee's against Benn. His face was not contorted with pain and at that point he had a bleed on his brain and was basically dying but yet he calmly got up like it was nothing and walked to back to his corner)

"To be the best boxer, you have to be the best liar."

A classic quote from Mike Tyson

Fighters you could never tell if a punch hurt him and Biev has that poker face down to an art in that no matter what you hit him with. He just keeps looking at you with a blank, emotionless expression. I can't stress that enough and unless you have been in a ring it can be VERY disheartening and even draining mentally to keep on hitting a guy and they have no emotion. Not a smile. Not even anger.

Anyway....What next ?

Seems like Hearn is desperate to hold onto Canelo and Bivol and that means ageing out Beterbiev for as long as possible and Arum is saying the Bivol-Biev fight is either on ESPN or the fight doesn't happen. I've seen Hearn putting pride aside in order for fights to happen but I never seen Arum doing it

This reminds me of Kovalev / Stevenson situation. Shame that fight never happened. Got a feeling the same will happen with Bivol-Biev. Probably get some dragged-out sh*t show. Look pay off Mauricio into forcing a mando and make the fight happen