Anthony David Benavidez vs. Anthony Dwayne Duncan Yarde & Brian Norman Jr. vs. Devin Haney RBR.

Looks like he has no intention of fighting Bivol or Beterbiev he is looking for the easier option in Zurdo. Once he goes up to Cruiser no way he will make it back to 175 hopefully he is forced to fight Opetaia.

 

Lmao ofc he talks about fighting Ramirez who has had a very similar career to him. Opetaia would destroy this clown.

 

Yarde-Buatsi is still a fairly decent British domestic dust up. Both past their primes and both not as good as they think they are. But it still generates interest and would be popular as a chief support in a stadium fight or a headliner at the O2 or in Manchester etc.

Wouldn’t mind seeing it still.

 

Remember the excuses people were making for Zurdo ducking Opetaia? What a ****ing duck.

 

Yarde boxed the way he always does, its silly to expect anything else from him. And CST is right in pointing out how bad Yarde´s gas tank is, so there is no scenario in which Yarde starts off any fight really fast. He simply wont risk it.

 

Benavidez stops Bivol.

 

Duck who? A Cinco de Mayo fight in Vegas against another Mexican star will make a ton more money than against a Russian.

 

Im still convinced David is there to been clipped and taken out. Wont be told different. Not sold on his ability to take a clean punch. He seems so easy to counter and i dont like his reactions when he does actually take flush counters.

 

He probably left a lot of money on the table not fighting Craig Richards, Dan Azeez, Callum Smith, Callum Johnson etc. who he has much better chances against than fighting Lyndon Arthur 3 times and thinking he is world level because he hurt Kovalev and was brave enough to swing back at Beterbiev. He's talented but just took the wrong path in terms of management and fights.

 

Yarde doesnt seem to have had the power the last few fights. Maybe to manage stamina but he used to be a vicous puncher. Now he seems to have lost that.

You cant let someone like benevidez walk you down unless your counters are hitting him hard.

His shell is ok but once a few start landing, a few more start to get through, then more and then its stopped.

 

Homebody don’t wanna run a fade with Opetaia.

 

Zurdo ducked Opetaia for a year. He's now fighting a guy smaller than him.

 

Yeah I don’t know why people expected that. He’s always been a conservative counter puncher when he’s not in against a Latvian bricklayer.