When British warrior Anthony Yarde rumbled with light-heavyweight king Artur Beterbiev in January of 223, loads of folks showered the battle with nice reward, with some suggesting it was FOTY materials. Actually, for just a few good rounds, Yarde held his personal and slugged it out with Beterbiev. Finally, Beterbiev obtained the stoppage win within the eighth spherical. Now, simply days after Beterbiev unified all 4 belts at 175 together with his shut resolution win over Dmitry Bivol, Yarde is ready to return to motion.
Yarde, 25-3(24), says he desires Beterbiev once more. The 33-year-old from Hackney additionally desires to battle Bivol and Joshua Buatsi. First, Yarde should come via okay towards Ralfs Vilcans of Latvia, whom Yarde will battle on Saturday night time. That is on the Adam Azim-Ohara Davies card.
Yarde says he desires to get lively, his final battle having taken place in February, with him having gained two fights since being stopped by Beterbiev. However Yarde desires extra massive fights.
“I wish to be within the ring,” Yarde instructed BBC Sport. “Everybody goes to have their opinion on the extent I must be preventing, or the battle, or how massive the battle must be. I need the largest fights on the market. That’s Joshua Buatsi, that’s Beterbiev 2, that’s [Dmitry] Bivol.”
All three of the doable fights Yarde talked about for himself could be very fascinating. Beterbiev and Bivol will certainly field a return battle subsequent, nevertheless, and consequently, their time might be taken up over the following few months. However possibly a battle between Yarde and Buatsi, 19-0(13), could possibly be made earlier than too lengthy? For certain, that’s a battle that may headline a card right here within the UK.
Ben Shalom, who promotes Yarde, says his fighter is a “tremendous expertise” and a “showman.”
“We don’t have many real superstars that may seize the eye as mainstream stars, and Anthony Yarde is one in all them,” Shalom mentioned. “There’s Joshua Buatsi, there’s Ben Whittaker, there’s Anthony Yarde all within the home light-heavyweight scene [in the UK]. There will not be many fighters, if any, within the division that may battle the way in which Anthony Yarde can battle.”
Whittaker has unfinished enterprise with Liam Cameron, and a rematch is anticipated there. However later down the street, possibly Whittaker can take a look at his self-proclaimed nice stuff towards Yarde. It appears extra reasonable that Yarde will get massive home fights, whereas he might not get a second shot at Beterbiev or a battle with Bivol. However it’s important to hand it to Yarde for wanting to return in there with absolute beast Beterbiev, having already tasted his energy.
Let’s see how Yarde appears to be like towards Vilcans on Saturday night time.