Kovalev was clearly there for the taking last night and this arrogant young child couldn't even get him out of there. He has no power, no endurance due to most likely being on PED's in the past and is clearly suffering from it still. Along with him and his team taking Kovalev likely bragging about how he doesn't care about watching film of Kovalev because he doesn't need to along with barely any sparring. People are talking about how he has a bright future ahead of him but that doesn't make sense when Gvodzyk, Beterbiev and Bivol are younger, fitter and not past it like Kovalev was and he even would have no chance against Pascal from the Browne fight. It's good that he lost because if he didn't he would make a bigger mockery out of boxing than what's needed.
pascal vs yarde next! pascal would beat him but it would be closer. yarde would never beat gvodzyk or beterbiev.
Yeah, no kidding. SERIOUS questions should be raised about this guy's ability to take a punch. He was knocked out by a JAB for goodness sake!
Ye they were hugely arrogant.. & watching the elder statesman get his second wind & take the younger whipper snapper to school was ****ing brilliant .. but he did take the fight in Russia & jumped up two to three levels in doing so .. so in that regard you have to give him a bit of props.. but I think the Brit media (I'm a Brit) are too cuckish & over play everything.. they literally had a love in for years with Joshua & Khan! Hated Fury mostly.. & barely gave Froch a look in until late on.. everything is magnified here in boxing by the casuals & the annoying journos.. the fight was ok but it certainly wasn't a classic & Yardes performance (barring one or two rounds) was pretty low key.. fairly static, low output, flat footed.. he was out jabbed, out paced & out manoeuvred IMO & what the **** that ring walk was all about I'll never know.. he & his team got a humbling last & they should learn from it.. Callum Johnson (after only having one fight in nearly two years) fought a fresher Beterbiev, dropped him hard & put on a great show but ultimately lost.. but Yarde gets most of the attention because his trainer is a big mouthed tool, casuals love big muscles & the media have an agenda.. lol
He was completely gassed and stepped into that jab, a jab from one of the best punchers in boxing. Kovalev might be 36 but power is one of the last things to go. Yarde defended himself quite well that night, but he did eat some solid blows before the KO. If Yarde truly had serious issues with that chin, he would have been hurt earlier in the fight, not after 11 rounds of accumulation and fatigue. Yarde lacks world class conditioning and his chin is likely average.
because i rate alvarez higher than yarde, and in the 2nd fight alvarez did nothing, atleast yarde had a massive round, and it was only 1 round.
Kovalev lost one round the entire fight Yards didn’t do enough He was beaten up by Kovalev's jab for all the confidence and the ring walk he showed he was just full of bravado and not the real deal at all. It was a glorified sparring session for Kovalev for his home show which I fully expected it to be. Kovalev had tons of experience and Yarde was always out of his depth in reality. Why would they face someone who was going to beat him?
You don’t get so close to being stopped in a glorified sparring session. Listen to what Kovalev told Yarde during his interview - those are words of a man who’d been in a fight.
Disagreeing tho For a guy that had 12 amature fights 18 pro fights Hardly spars Didnt follow the traditional boxing routine to a championship route He did better than expected When many here said he wouid get stopped 5 or less lol I chose kovalev bur yards did exceed expectations for a guy with limited experience First people are mad that yarde fights kovalev Now they are mad that yarde exceeded expectations and almost stopped kovalev Haters will always I guess Nothing wrong with praising a boxer who exceeded expectations even in defeat .
Agreed, he's rubbish. You shouldn't get "attaboy" kudos for lasting a bit longer than expected versus a guy who's diminished to like 60% (at best) of his prime ability. He didn't show a speck of refined boxing skill or anything, just hung in there and made it competitive at times because he's, like @CST80 pointed out, heavy-handed with a good chin...neither of which are things you can improve upon with practice, so what exactly are we praising about his efforts again? What exactly has supposedly changed to alter everyone's initial (correct) perceptions of him as being all raw talent with no discipline or ring IQ?
