By: Sean Crose
Anthony Yarde is a recreation and terrific fighter. What’s extra, he had the struggle of his life Saturday evening in London. He hit properly, moved properly, fought good and confirmed the center of a lion. Unfortuntaely for Yarde, his opponent this previous weekend was IBF, WBC and WBO mild heavyweight titlist Artur Beterbiev. For Beterbiev is a fighter who has the expertise to stay affected person whereas his opponent is quickly getting the higher of him, as was the case towards Yarde. By persevering with to use relentless stress, whereas piling on one thunderous punch after one other, Beterbiev was capable of cease the spectacular Yarde within the seventh spherical.
Walking into the struggle, the 19-0 Beterbiev had received each one among his earlier ring encounters earlier than the sound of the ultimate bell. Saturday’s bout proved to be no totally different. Yet Sky Sports wrote beforehand that “the last time Beterbiev boxed in London was a decade ago in the 91kgs quarter-final of the 2012 Olympic Games…he lost that bout to Oleksandr Usyk, the Ukrainian who became the undisputed cruiserweight champion as a professional and is the reigning unified WBO, WBA and IBF heavyweight titlist now after beating Anthony Joshua twice.”
Sky Sports raised the query of whether or not or not Beterbiev could be prepared to face Usyk once more. “No problem,” he answered good naturedly. “If you organize.” In fact, Beterbiev holds no will will for the person who defeated him within the amateurs over a decade in the past. “He’s successful. He did a good job,” he stated of Usyk. “He’s a good fighter and he did a good job. I’m not really interested (in keeping up on Usyk news, it seems). I’m not following Usyk or someone else.” Still, Beterbiev wasn’t going to brush off the matter of probably dealing with Usyk sooner or later.
“I could move up, it’s interesting but another champion is good too,” he claimed. “I try to be ready for everything. If it comes, we will try to do it.” At the very least, the battle could be an intriguing one.
