I have a theory about Anthony Yarde and Tunde

Holler · Aug 16, 2019

Dragon Punch said: ↑

Why?

Kovalev and McGirt are in Russia training as is Yarde and his team. BT/ESPN seem to think everything’s fine.
There is a full undercard on boxrec.
Press conference is Tuesday apparently.

I admit is been a very strange promotion from the Russians, but they clearly do things differently.
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It feels like one of those Hollywood caper movies where they pretend to stage a boxing event but really they're there to steal a priceless diamond / plans to a doomsday device / heir to the throne of madeupistan.

On fight night Tunde will be rappelling down a skyscraper whilst the actor playing the part of a professional boxer runs away from Kovalev for 12 desperate rounds.

emallini · Aug 16, 2019

Lions

Suspect.chin · Aug 17, 2019

I just think yarde will pull out or something

Dragon Punch · Aug 17, 2019

Suspect.chin said: ↑

I just think yarde will pull out or something
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That’s just silly mate. Unless there is some freak injury like what happened to Frampton, which would apply to all fights.

Yarde could have allowed Kovalev to fight Canelo and taken massive step aside money instead and nobody would have really blamed him.

DreamItBelieveItGetKOd · Aug 22, 2019

Tunde is a ****ing joke, all this act is gonna be exposed at the weekend and I can't wait

DreamItBelieveItGetKOd · Aug 22, 2019

Amazed the bookies are giving Yarde a chance

If he'd fought a Hosea Burton, Frank Buglioni

Or a Sullivan Barrera, Karo Murat

We'd be in more of a position to say, but no one knows cause of how terrible his opposition has been. Can't believe he got to aWBO mandatory without having to face someone. So you just have to assume that probably he isn't gonna be up to much at the top level.

tdf1974 · Aug 22, 2019

yesihavearm2 said: ↑

Here me out for a second here guys. I am 6 bottles of Peroni deep, so apologises for the less than perfect sentences coming.

This isn’t a thread to criticise Frank Warren, who I believe is absolved of any blame here and has kept in the dark just as much as any of us. This isn’t a thread to criticise Anthony Yarde’s skills as a boxer. In fact, I don’t think he is a boxer at all.

For those of us of an age here to remember, there was a very popular pop group in the 80’s/90’s called Milli Vanilli, with millions of records sold. They become infamous after a lip-synching scandal, where it was exposed that its own members didn’t actually sing any of their own songs. The duo ended up having to give back their Grammy award in disgrace.

Where I’m coming from with this is that I believe that Yarde and Tunde are pulling off one of the biggest scams in boxing of recent times.

There are just too many things here that don’t add up.

Firstly, Team Yarde’s complete reluctance to face anyone of British nationality.

There was an investigation in 2017 after a Georgian professional boxer claimed that a large number of Eastern European fighters were faking their records to land lucrative fights in the UK. A website we all use and know BoxRec was named at the centre of the scandal.

Promoter Frank Warren said: “BoxRec’s the Bible of our business. I’m shocked. We look up records on BoxRec and agents in the country arrange the fights.

Just for you curious George’s, some of the bouts in question were:

NATHAN GORMAN bt GOGITA GORGILADZE

DERECK CHISORA bt BEKA LOBJANIDZE

MARTIN MURRAY bt GIORGI BEROSHVILI

CHARLIE EDWARDS bt MIKHEIL SOLONINKINI

HUGHIE FURY bt DAVID GEGESHIDZE

DILLIAN WHYTE bt BEKA LOBJANIDZE

Corruption is indeed everywhere and I don’t want to single out a particular group of people but I think it’s fair to assume that boxers from less affluent areas of the world are more likely to be “on the take” than the current crop of known Brits under Matchroom/Warren who have had domestic television exposure. There would also be a much higher chance of something being leaked to the wrong person.

There are plenty of British journeymen for Team Yarde to face, why has there been none? Take a look at all the recent successful UK fighters – Brook, Khan, Frampton, DeGale, Groves, Saunders, Eubank, Haye, Joshua etc….they have ALL faced domestic level competition on their way to the top. Why hasn’t Yarde? He hasn’t even faced a Craig Richards/Jake Ball level of opponent yet. Very bizarre.

Another very strange aspect is the large sample size of fights declined.

To my knowledge Team Yarde have declined fights recently with the following:

Sergey Kovalev, Artur Beterbiev, Sullivan Barrera, Hosea Burton, Callum Johnson, Joshua Buatsi.

I’ve never in 25+ years of watching the sport seen a fighter decline so many fights in such a short amount of time. Again, very bizarre.

Lack of high level sparring – Normally with a touted prospect you get to hear a few sparring stories. Usually vs fighters who they are now in competition with. All normal stuff really.

Except with Yarde, there isn’t any.

The rumour going around is that Team Yarde don’t just decline fights, they decline sparring too with any sort of recognised fighter.

Recently I was hearing stories from when Bellew used to spar Froch, or from when Eubank used to spar Groves, or from when Joshua used to spar Fury. Who has Anthony Yarde been sparring apart from complete nobodies that no one has ever heard of?

Once again this is a very bizarre finding.

Tunde’s relationship with Yarde

I don’t know about you guys but I get the shivers when I listen to this guy. Look at pretty much any of his interviews on IFL and it will give you the creeps. The guy almost seems to have Yarde brainwashed, either that or he has something bad on him to be able to control him like a puppet on a string like he has.

Tunde’s got history too. Remember when he used to shill some Mayweather/Broner wannabe who got a couple of thousands views whilst doing padwork . Turns out the kid hasn’t even had an amateur fight. Go figure.

Hosea Burton recently confronted team Yarde face to face in LA prior to the Wilder/Fury fight. The result of which wasn’t the ****y, confident “lion in the camp” that we generally get from Yarde in interviews and after fights. He sure looked uncomfortable at the confrontation and could not wait to get out of there.

A close call perhaps?

Also Yarde is listed as being 6”, yet Burton absolutely towered over him. Yarde also towers over a lot of his opponents including his last one Walter Sequeira, who was billed as being Yarde’s best opponent but must have legitimately been around 5”7 at LHW (Yeah, right.)

Why am I bringing attention to all of this?

Yarde just isn’t a boxer. He may or may not have been an amateur boxer at one time but it’s doubtful he is one now. Not since Tunde got to him. He is now an actor, a pretender, a fraud. He has no desire to take any fights on because he has never had a professional fight in the first place. Tunde seeks out financially troubled fighters far away from these shores that no one has ever heard of. He pays them for a “fight” with Yarde which is nothing more than what Bellew did with Michael B Jordon or Stallone did with Lungdren.

They will continue to target nobodies because that’s all they can do. They wait, until a big enough fight comes along that they can sell as PPV. Then they cash out. Yarde gets destroyed in a round.

A bad day at the office they will say. And they will both walk away rich men.
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I would lay off the Peroni if i were you

emallini · Aug 22, 2019

So clueless and has clearly never boxed. Just ridiculously out of touch.

DreamItBelieveItGetKOd · Aug 22, 2019

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So clueless and has clearly never boxed. Just ridiculously out of touch.
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What's your boxing name then?

DJN16 · Aug 22, 2019

I really am baffled by this fight. Can't believe it is upon us.

Put all thoughts, shocks and dreams to the side.

Kovalev should finish this before the halfway mark.

Cecil · Aug 25, 2019

Well then?

CutThroatFade · Aug 25, 2019

Cecil said: ↑

Well then?
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Apparently it was one of the worst beatings we've seen in recent times. Maybe OP also watched the fight 12 Peronis deep.

yesihavearm2 · Aug 25, 2019

Cecil said: ↑

Well then?
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Well what?

He was battered from pillar to post and was completely unprepared for a fight at that level, as predicted.

He showed great heart and chin, but so unprepared. Let's see some domestic fights before another one of these please.

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