Anthony Yarde's bum carousel continues

Partially agree, partially not.
When you see an opponent and his stance & hands position, you should know where and how he might hit you with most effective punches from this said position and calculate according your positions most possible his attack variants. Defensive/ offensive movements should be automatized and ofc improved and polished.
No one can predict all variations, most common yes. Ofc it is easier when there is no fight but sparring.
pads/ mitts are helping to enchance sequences automatisation and increase precisity. Sure they can't be sole element of training.
Sparring should be done of course.
Routine training and training camps, then there are pre fight training camps etc.

 

big surprise if bearing in mind how long he lasted vs Kovalev. yeah 36 y.o Kovalev , still this was Kovalev.
Dude is brawe and not a bum. Ok, lost last fight on cards too but he isn't that bad at all.
Still there such caliber journeyman was needed for him after fight vs Kovalev. .

 

He needed the journeyman before Kovalev, he needed rounds, someone firing back who could hold a shot. He needed the Light Heavy version of Ben Tackie. Someone who always goes 12 but doesn't have enough to beat the best. He needed to go in with someone with a dig, someone the roughly the same size instead of blown up SM's

They have taken the path of least resistance and its shown.

 

Before Kovalev he needed to have not guys like this yourneyman with 4–48–3 record.

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but guys from top 25-100 at least 2, better 4 such guys.

 

someone who's 4-48 isn't a journeyman that's cannon fodder.

 

Like this but still difference between journeymans exists.
Some journeymans with bad looking records almost never or even never had been stopped. This means something.
Also there are journeymans that have majority of their losses via stoppages, this too means something.

 

He can do, but I actually feel sorry for him and quite like him nonetheless. I think he's the product of Tunde's approach. Almost brainwashed with the 'Lions in the camp' nonsense. The boxing equivalent of the the little pigs house that's built on sand.

He has the physique, some power and he looks good. That big marketing deal with Adidas and the careful matchmaking probably secured his financial future. What he doesn't have is the fundamentals and at 29, that's very unlikely to happen now. He looked lost on that stool between rounds and he wasn't getting much useful advice from his trainer, or at least from what I could hear on the BT coverage. The boxing ring has a cruel way of exposing the difference between hype and reality and it doesn't get much crueller than a much hyped guy getting beaten by a one armed man.

I thought after the fight he did himself no favours with the way he took defeat, sadly the false bravado will probably help sell the fight when the rematch occurs (incidentally wtf is a challenger doing with a rematch clause for the champion?). Whereas what's really needed is some introspection and a cold, objective look at the strategies he's employing. They weren't working and they should've changed much earlier in the fight.

I will be tuning in when he returns but not with much expectation that he will deliver on the hype.

 

When I listen to Yarde on his own I actually think he’s ok. Obviously blows smoke up his own arse but that’s not too bad - a fighter having confidence in his own ability. It’s just that Tunde I can’t stand.

 

I agree, a HW stopping Sokolowski or Kingpin means something because they are durable (unless it happens like the Bakole fight, with a few days notice and one week after he went the distance with a prospect in Germany, what kind of commission allows that fight to happen?).
Also,many Eastern European journeyman with a 50:50 record are actually better than most of the guys that a prospect ends up facing for the British title...

 

Licence's activity isn't under question unless fight didn't ended in distance and post fight check up didn't spotted out damages.
Lost on cards, usually they are eliglibe to fight when they wish.

Different question really might be these interesting " minor " or just not well known tittles fights too are with different matchups.
The same Ekimov with his 18-0-0 ( 9 KOs ) in 12 rounds vs Bolotņiks.
Is Ekimov bad? I think that no, he lasted all 12 rounds vs Bolotņiks.

 

Yeah, still these journeymans are really different level. Someone is like walking bag, someone might had career if had been more properly managed in pro ranks.
Guy's future not rarerly mainly depends from matchmaking from his first let's say at least couple of fights.

 

Yarde might fight with Burton.

 

adidas mb pissed off

 

Yarde loses and they sign Shannon Courtenay... really rough few weeks.

 

It's interesting that 2 of Yarde's best 3 opponents came after Kovalev. I can't help but feel Yarde would have done better against Kov if he'd been boxing the better ones domestically first, but then again the chance of him coming unstuck would have been higher and he could have potentially lost the payday.