Older and wiser, Anthony Yarde believes the third time's a charm, 2
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July 4, 2025
Source: Boxing Scene
Four years later he was rewarded with a fight with the even-more-feared Beterbiev, and gave Kovalev’s fellow Russian his toughest night until Beterbiev was matched with Dmitry Bivol for the first time in a memorable contest for the undisputed title in October 2024.
Benavidez – after Bivol, also of Russia, and Beterbiev – has come to be recognised as the world’s third finest light heavyweight. At 28 years old and after – like Yarde – 30 fights he regardless is less experienced and less proven than either Kovalev or Beterbiev, and it is there that Yarde expects his previous world-title fights to tell.
“With them kind of challenges, the only thing that let me down was experience, and I think it showed,” he told BoxingScene. “I gained a lot of experience against Beterbiev; I gained a lot of experience against Kovalev. Everyone’s seen that I’ve got better each time, even though the person’s more dangerous. I’m excited for it; the deal was done very quickly and very easily, because of my personality. As soon as it got put to me I said, ‘Absolutely’, and now we’re fighting.
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