{"id":301498,"date":"2025-11-23T10:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301498\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T10:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:23:09","slug":"anthony-yarde-stopped-by-david-benavidez-as-third-world-title-bid-ends-in-defeat-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301498\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Yarde stopped by David Benavidez as third world title bid ends in defeat | Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Yarde suffered defeat in a world title fight for the third time in his career as he was stopped in the seventh round by David Benavidez in Riyadh.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old had previously been stopped by Sergey Kovalev and Artur Beterbiev at this level, and it was a case of deja vu as Benavidez left the Ilford fighter with a bloody nose in the sixth round before closing the contest out in the next.<\/p>\n

Benavidez, who only stepped up to the light-heavyweight division last year, retained his WBC title as he extended his perfect record to 31 fights.<\/p>\n

“I’m fantastic – he’s a hell of a fighter,” Yarde told BBC Radio 5Live after the fight. “I knew how he was going to come, at the end there he just caught me with a good shot on my nose.<\/p>\n

“I thought it was competitive. He’s got quick hands, he caught me first, hit me with a good shot on my nose.<\/p>\n

“I stuck in there, I’m a fighter.”<\/p>\n

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\n Benavidez left Yarde with a bloody nose in the sixth round<\/p>\n

Benavidez, nicknamed ‘The Mexican Monster’, touted a step up to cruiserweight to fight for Gilberto Ramirez’s WBA and WBO titles after the bout.<\/p>\n

Yarde’s future is less certain after a fourth loss as a professional with trainer Tunde Ajayi admitting his camp was dejected.<\/p>\n

“You saw why so many people don’t want to fight him [Benavidez],” Ajayi said. “We’re all upset but it is what it is.<\/p>\n

“The plan was to come on strong later in the fight.”<\/p>\n

Haney defeats Norman Jr to become three-division world champion<\/p>\n

In the co-main event, Devin Haney claimed the WBO welterweight title over fellow-American Brian Norman Jr by unanimous decision, becoming a three-division world champion.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old knocked down Norman (28-1, 22 KOs) in the second round to take hold of the momentum and stayed in control behind his sharp jab as he closed out a 114-113, 117-110 and 116-111 scorecard.<\/p>\n

Haney (33-0, 15 KOs) is a former lightweight and super lightweight world champion. He beat Jose Carlos Ramirez by unanimous decision in a 12-round welterweight bout in Times Square in February.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the evening, Kent fighter Sam Noakes emerged with credit from a hard fought points loss as Abdullah Mason claimed the vacant WBO lightweight title.<\/p>\n

Noakes suffered a nasty cut above his left eye following a head clash in the third round, but he dragged Mason into a brutal battle and both men were hurt to the body before the American secured a unanimous decision win with scores of 115-113, 117-111 and 115-113.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Yarde suffered defeat in a world title fight for the third time in his career as he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-301498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301498","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=301498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}