David Benavidez says his goal is to defeat Anthony Yarde in a \u201cbetter\u201d fashion than Artur Beterbiev did when he defends his WBC light heavyweight title against him in less than a month on November 22, 2025, in Riyadh.<\/p>\n
Benavidez\u2019s Beterbiev Benchmark<\/p>\n
Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs) states that he\u2019s not sure if he\u2019ll be given the chance to fight the eventual winner of the trilogy match between Dmitry Bivol and Arthur Beterbiev. If not, he wants to fight WBA and WBO cruiserweight champion Gilberto \u2018Zurdo\u2019 Ramirez.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s too early for Benavidez, 28, to be thinking about fighting someone else. He still has to defeat Yarde (27-3, 24 KOs), who could surprise him with his punching power. Yarde is more explosive and powerful than the other two fighters Benavidez has fought at 175, David Morrell and Oleksandr Gvozdyk. He had a lot of trouble against both of those guys.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re two bulls going at it. It\u2019s going to be a great fight,\u201d said David Benavidez to talkSport Boxing<\/a>. \u201cAnthony Yarde is a pressure fighter, and I\u2019m a pressure fighter that comes forward too. I want to get a better victory than Artur Beterbiev did. I want to make more of a statement than he did against Anthony Yarde.\u201d<\/p>\n Yarde\u2019s Third and Final Shot<\/p>\n \u201cThis is his third attempt at a world title. He knows there\u2019s a lot at stake in this fight. I\u2019ve been working for 4.5 months. I got to keep winning these fights and keep trying to fight the best opponents available,\u201d said Benavidez when asked if he questions whether he\u2019ll get the winner of the Dmitry Bivol vs. Artur Beterbiev trilogy match.<\/p>\n Tom Galm\u2019s Viewpoint: Empty Comparisons<\/p>\n It\u2019s a waste of time for Benavidez to be thinking of improving on the performance Beterbiev did. Yarde is 34 now, and not the same guy he was two years ago at 32 when he fought Artur. Knocking him out faster than Beterbiev did won\u2019t prove anything.<\/p>\n If there was a way of fighting Yarde at that moment in his career, he could then prove something. Even then, it still wouldn\u2019t mean that his performance topped what Beterbiev did. He wasn\u2019t trying to KO him as fast as possible. It looked like Beterbiev was focused on breaking him down slowly.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Tom Galm has covered the global boxing scene since 2014, specializing in heavyweight analysis, business trends, and fighter psychology.<\/p>\n Boxing News 24<\/a> \u00bb – An Analyst’s Perspective<\/a> \u00bb David Benavidez Vows to Beat Anthony Yarde \u201cBetter\u201d Than Artur Beterbiev Did in Riyadh Title Clash on November 22<\/p>\n Last Updated on 10\/24\/2025 \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benavidez says his goal is to defeat Anthony Yarde in a \u201cbetter\u201d fashion than Artur Beterbiev did…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-224405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}