Watch David Benavidez vs. Anthony Yarde full fight video highlights from their main event showdown Saturday evening, courtesy of multiple outlets.<\/p>\n
Benavidez vs. Yarde took place Nov. 22 at the AMB Arena in Riyardy, Saudi Arabia. David Benavidez (30-0) and Anthony Yarde (27-3) squared off in the the main event clash. The fight aired live on pay-per-view on DAZN.<\/p>\n
Official result: David Benavidez def. Anthony Yarde via TKO \u2014 1:59, Round 7.<\/p>\n
Check out all the video highlights below.<\/p>\n
For more on Benavidez vs. Yarde, check out the live blog below.<\/p>\n
Yarde looks clearly bigger than Benavidez, a natural light heavyweight. But Benavidez is right on the pressure, moving Yarde back. And Yarde is getting cornered early, as they exchange heavy shots. Benavidez loops a right hand long and over the top, and it lands, but without much pop. He\u2019s moving Yarde back freely. Benavidez to the body, and Yarde returns in kind. Nice right hand from Yarde up top as Benavidez went to the body. Benavidez jabs the body. Benavidez with a sharp jab as Yarde is waiting a bit. Yarde looks enormous, but Benavidez with a combo.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9 Benavidez.<\/p>\n
Yarde snapping the jab early. Benavidez looks like he\u2019s just handing in first gear for now. But he gets Yarde to the corner and combos. Yarde counters well and moves him. Benavidez goes to the body. Benavidez still staying in first gear, methodical. Yarde moving well and popping his jab. Benavidez gets him to a corner and big combo, but Yarde blocks well and lands a right as he spins out. Benavidez gets him to the ropes again and unloads but Yarde rolling them all. He\u2019s not scoring back, but he\u2019s doing fine.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9 Benavidez, 20-18 Benavidez overall.<\/p>\n
Yarde lands a soft right to the body early. He\u2019s not throwing hard, and he\u2019s landing some. Benavidez sits on a stepping right hand but Yarde rolls it. Benavidez coming in hard now and Yarde showing good defense. Benavidez gets Yarde to the corner again and digs to the body. Yarde mixing his levels well but Benavidez keeps putting him in the corner and getting busy. Yarde defending well, but this is not a winning position. Right back to the corner again and Benavidez is throwing more combinations now. Benavidez really leans into a couple shots but Yarde takes them. He\u2019s just not winning, but he\u2019s not getting lit up. Yet.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9 Benavidez, 30-27 Benavidez overall.<\/p>\n
Benavidez back on the march, and Yarde continuing to work his jab and slip shots. He\u2019s not punishing Benavidez at all though, and that\u2019s an issue. Nice combination from Benavidez as he gets him to the corner. Sergio Mora in the booth is singing Yarde\u2019s praises while he\u2019s losing ever round. That\u2019s a choice.<\/p>\n
And Benavidez keeps coming in. Yarde is not getting killed, but Benavidez keeps putting him in the corner and swinging combinations. Yarde isn\u2019t even swinging big counters. And Benavidez waves him on. He want a rock fight. And Benavidez starting to turning it up now. He\u2019s doing some dirty boxing, with a chain of 15 uppercuts in tight.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9 Benavidez, 40-36 Benavidez overall.<\/p>\n
The commentary is a trip. Praising Yarde as he keeps losing comprehensively. This round is like the others, with Benavidez moving him back and working in combinations. Yarde is avoiding getting run over, but Benavidez keeps landing at a much higher clip. Unsure how this fight changes. Might just be 12 rounds of this.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9 Benavidez, 50-45 Benavidez overall.<\/p>\n
Yarde sits down on a right hand to start the sixth and that was his best punch of the fight. And it might have hurt Benavidez! He\u2019s backing up and now he\u2019s against the ropes! But Benavidez combos off the rope and backs Yarde up. Benavidez turns southpaw for a moment. Then back, and lands a sharp right hand. Then a left hook. Benavidez coming forward but Yarde meeting him a little more and firing. Benavidez waving him on, posturing. He wants this to get grimy. And he lands a left. Yarde fires back and Benavidez gets him to the ropes and unloads. Big breath from Yarde as the break. He\u2019s bleeding from the nose now, and Benavidez is coming on. But Yarde lands a night right hand. This is turning into a fist fight! Benavidez putting the hammer down and Yarde is covering up now. Benavidez keeps hammering away and Yarde looks tired. He\u2019s bleeding and swollen now around the eye. Benavidez on the attack and the ref is in close as the round ends.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9 Benavidez, 60-54 Benavidez overall.<\/p>\n
What started as Yarde\u2019s best round, ended as his worst. He looks tired and a little beat up now. And Benavidez is not going to give him air. And before the round, the referee gets a check from the doctor on Yarde\u2019s orbital bone, which looks swollen. We get the nod and the round starts.<\/p>\n
Benavidez right on the attack as Yarde is pouring blood now. Benavidez smells the end and he\u2019s putting it down. Credit to Yarde though, he\u2019s now swinging back. Bad idea, as Benavidez combos and sits Yarde down. One of those was after Yarde was already down though! And a point gets taken from Benavidez. Probably won\u2019t matter though.<\/p>\n
Benavidez on the hunt as we restart. Yarde staying game and Benavidez looking a little slower now. Big jab though. NASTY body shot from Benavidez. He\u2019s working the combos and Yarde is moving for defense. Yarde blocking well but Benavidez just keeps punching. HUGE left hook gets home and Yarde is all covered up, and the referee jumps in! TKO victory for David Benavidez.<\/p>\n
David Benavidez def. Anthony Yarde via TKO \u2014 1:59, Round 7.<\/p>\n
Benavidez gives Yarde credit for delivering a war, then gives himself a B+ for his performance, saying he wanted to deliver the KO because people were talking. Then Benavidez announces May 2, he\u2019s moving up to cruiserweight to challenge Gilberto Ramirez for the WBA and WBO titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch David Benavidez vs. Anthony Yarde full fight video highlights from their main event showdown Saturday evening, courtesy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[703,711,49,48,641,701,638,82,3194],"class_list":{"0":"post-301225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}