{"id":305934,"date":"2025-11-25T12:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305934\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:56:14","slug":"anthony-yarde-ranks-david-benavidez-artur-beterbiev-and-sergey-kovalev-after-losing-to-all-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305934\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Yarde ranks David Benavidez, Artur Beterbiev and Sergey Kovalev after losing to all three"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Yarde<\/a> may not have captured a world title, but on each of his three attempts he has dived straight in at the deep end.<\/p>\n

The latest came against \u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 David Benavidez<\/a> this past weekend, whose sustained assault was enough to prompt referee Hector Afu to step in during the seventh round<\/a> and spare Yarde further punishment.<\/p>\n

Across six years the Londoner has challenged Sergey Kovalev<\/a>, Artur Beterbiev<\/a> and now Benavidez for world honours at light-heavyweight. His longest effort came against Kovalev in 2019<\/a>, when he lasted 11 rounds, while his shortest ended on Saturday night in Riyadh.<\/p>\n

All three champions are renowned for their ferocious punch power, but who is the best of the trio? Yarde, 27-4 (24 KOs), offered his view when speaking to Boxing King Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBenavidez is good. He\u2019s filled into the weight very well. I rate him highly. I would say if I had to rate them, I\u2019ll put him first or second \u2013\u2013 him or Beterbiev. I know it sounds crazy, but in this fight against Benavidez, other than when he hit me when I was down, he never hurt me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yarde then reflected on his battle with Beterbiev \u2013\u2013 arguably his finest performance \u2013\u2013 where he pushed the then-unified champion harder than anyone before being stopped in the eighth round.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeterbiev hurt me. I think it was the second round or something like that. Hit me with a left hook at the end of the round and that buzzed me. I was like, whoa.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Benavidez, it\u2019s like they were overwhelming punches, but none hurt me. Even the body shots weren\u2019t hurting. Other than when I got hit in my nose \u2013\u2013 the fact my nose was bleeding \u2013\u2013 that gave me a shocked response, like I didn\u2019t want to get hit in my nose again. But other than that, he\u2019s just a good pressure fighter. He knows what he\u2019s doing. Very smart.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Yarde\u2019s next move after the loss to Benavidez is currently unknown, \u2018The Mexican Monster\u2019 is set to step up to cruiserweight for a clash against unified world champion Gilberto \u2018Zurdo\u2019 Ramirez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Yarde may not have captured a world title, but on each of his three attempts he has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-305934","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\/305934","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=305934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}