Anthony Yarde

Trainer Tunde Ajayi realizes Artur Beterbiev’s power is the real article – the speed of his punches, on the other hand, is another question. Ajayi, the head trainer of British 175-pound contender Anthony Yarde, received a first-hand look at the feared Russian mauler this past Saturday at the Hulu Theater in Madison Square Garden in New York City. Beterbiev, the IBF and WBC champion, battered WBO titlist Joe Smith Jr. into forcing the referee Harvey Dock to call for a second-round stoppage in a 12-round light heavyweight unification bout.

NEW YORK – Anthony Yarde watched from ringside Saturday night as the dangerous knockout artist he figures to fight next tore through a light heavyweight champion who hadn’t been legitimately knocked out. England’s Yarde was impressed by the way Beterbiev battered Joe Smith Jr. on his way to...

NEW YORK -- Artur Beterbiev hasn't met his match yet, and Saturday at Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden was no different. Joe Smith Jr. entered the ring with a size advantage, strength and a tremendously powerful right hand, but none of it mattered. Beterbiev was too precise, his punches too damaging.

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...

Joshua Buatsi believes a showdown against Anthony Yarde is “inevitable” and insisted he would prefer to face his London rival next over fighting for a world title.Buatsi would welcome a bout against WBA light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol, with whom he shares a promoter in Eddie Hearn, after claiming a close but clear points win over Craig Richards last weekend.Trainer Virgil Hunter was cool on such talk, suggesting his protege might need another test or two, and Buatsi would relish another derby occasion against Yarde after beating another Londoner in Richards.The pair seem to have been on a collision course for...

ANTHONY YARDE SAID he is looking to destroy the winner out of the unification battle between Joe Smith jr and Artur Beterbiev in June in a week where he celebrates clocking up seven years as a professional boxer. The two light heavyweight champions put their WBO, WBC and IBF belts...

British promoter Frank Warren realizes that he needs to be extra prudent in the matchmaking for his charge Anthony Yarde, since it appears that the hard hitting light heavyweight contender is on the cusp of another shot at a divisional title – or possibly three. In a recent interview,...

KO King Anthony Yarde (22-2, 21 KOs) is the no.1 contender for American Joe Smith Jr.’s WBO World Light-Heavyweight title, and that fight is likely to happen this year. The Ilford man is now on a mission to clean up the 175lb division after knocking out Lyndon Arthur in four rounds last month, getting revenge for a controversial points loss one year earlier.

Anthony Yarde hopes for a "happier year" in 2022 and hopes, too, to unify the world's light-heavyweight titles, writes Elliot Worsell. BIT by bit, things are getting better for Anthony Yarde, even if it wasn’t all that long ago he thought they couldn’t get much worse. By now...

It looks certain that 2022 will be a rare year for boxing. Never have we approached the new year with so many bouts already made and so many others guaranteed. We have four big fights involving British boxers in the first six weeks of the year. We've never had that.

Because of the different promoters he’s not going to fight Callum Smith or Joshua Buatsi. The fight that sticks out is the winner of Callum Johnson and Joe Smith Jnr [who are scheduled to clash on January 15 in Verona]. I think why not. He’s at that level.

The fight was short, sharp and after 364 days there was sweet revenge for Anthony Yarde in his rematch with Lyndon Arthur.The long days of pain and regret finished for Yarde when Arthur went down in the fourth, got to a knee and tried to rise. He was a single, heartbreaking second too late. It was a victory planned in despair and carried out with a desperate edge by Yarde on a night of high emotions inside the Copper Box in Stratford. The crowds are back and they got their blood-fight.Last December, behind closed doors, Arthur was too smart. On...