Well as he fails to acknowledge that he lost and as his training is absolutely clueless. It is impossible to imagine that Yarde does anything better the second time around. We do know Lyndon will be better second time around though. So he is basically ****ed in a rematch. Brick top seems to be thick enough to roll the dice another time.
Reports suggest his reluctance to throw the right came from injuring it in the warm up. Like your strategy nonetheless!
i think whether or not he hurt is right hand is moot, personally he looked scared to throw it the question is that he can't beat yarde in a rematch with one hand again, so he will need to throw it in a second fight even he breaks his wrist, knuckle, metacarpal bone....same for if we wants to fight at world level
Perhaps he was reluctant to throw it because he injured his right hand. That's generally what happens.........
What he said! I agree with this though: Yarde will know that the rematch is win or bust. He's unlikely to outbox him but if he is to have any chance at getting the hype train rolling again he doesn't just need to beat Arthur, he needs to knock him into next week. A dodgy cards win won't do. So he needs to engage and he won't be looking to give multiple rounds away at the start. Arthur needs to have enough pop in the right hand to make him rethink his approach.
One of the things I'm unsure of is whether Yarde has trust in his chin, or whether he is willing to get hit in order to get off his own punches, because that seems like the only way I can see him beating Arthur without a dodgy decision. He's nowhere near refined enough to be able to get inside, get off his punches and get back out again. He'll probably need to take some punishment himself, get up close and rough Arthur up. As Arthur said, he kept it at his pace until the 12th round. It would be interesting to see if he could endure a slugfest from the off. Another thing I'd look out for is whether Yarde would be happy to have the same sort of bout, but rather than change his game plan in the 12th, change it in the 9th or 10th. That's not the most optimistic approach, but I could see that happening. It basically affords himself a free pass until the 9th or 10th, because he knows Arthur isn't stopping him.
I don't think he can do because it seemed obvious from early on that he'd need to do that and he just didn't, bar a brief flurry in the 12th. Maybe the Kovalev beating took a bigger toll than we realised. He will have every incentive in the rematch to go for it though, even if Tunde can't level with him I'd expect Warren to tell him exactly what's riding on it.
That's what I think, too. But how confident was Yarde regarding winning on points? He was the A side, all main stakeholders wanted a Yarde win and the cards were very tight. He might have thought it was safe. If i had to guess, he felt like he was losing the fight hence the 12th round, but didn't have the balls to exert more urgency earlier and that was compounded by the fact that he felt like he may have been the beneficiary of a robbery. It was a terrible bout and I don't want to see a rematch, but it would be interesting to see how it goes. I reckon it will happen.
That won't change while he still has that utterly ****ing useless team around him. Plenty of top line trainers and coaches would jump at the chance of training Yarde as there's plenty of natural ability there, he just needs better guidance on when and how to apply his obvious physical advantages.
He's fighting some unknown, undefeated German a week on Saturday, headlining a BT show. Quite unusual for a headline, TV fight to be announced less than two weeks from the date. I wonder if there's a world title fight against Joe Smith in the pipeline and that's why they need Yarde out to pick up a win first to make him eligible to fight for the title.
I totally forgot that fight was the same date. Silly me. On the plus side, not long to wait for Bentley vs Cash now, never realised it was so soon.
Cash. More or less based on the eye test to be honest. I don't see Bentley going much further than British title level, and think Cash has a higher ceiling. And you?
