There are few, if any, boxers in the light heavyweight division who could survive a prolonged firefight with unified champion Artur Beterbiev. Anthony Yarde gave it an admirable shot on Saturday at Wembley Arena in London, but still couldn't make it out of the eighth round.
That’s what is going to happen when you go toe-to-toe with Beterbiev. He improved to 19-0 with the win by scoring his 19th knockout. He’s hittable, and thus beatable, but it’s going to take a different kind of strategy to pull that off than Yarde employed.
Bivol is 21-0 with 11 knockouts. He’s a sharp puncher but he’s not going to scare many with his power. But he’s great at creating angles, controlling the distance and picking apart a guy who, like Beterbiev, is more often than not looking for the home run shot. The problem for Yarde is that Beterbiev landed nearly half of his power shots, according to CompuBox. He connected on 84 of 181 power punches, a 46% connect rate. When one hits as hard as Beterbiev does, that usually makes it a wrap.
He was not shocked that Yarde tried to attack him, thanks to an elite corner headlined by Marc Ramsey, John Scully and Russ Anber. It’s hard to imagine a fight between a pair of Russians who speak little English doing much business pay-per-view wise in the U.S., so that might mean in order for it to happen, it goes to ESPN, where Beterbiev fights under the Top Rank banner.
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