Anthony Yarde Gunning For KO Win Over Artur Beterbiev

Anthony Yarde doesn’t want to go the distance with Artur Beterbiev.

Yarde and Beterbiev are set to meet at the OVO Arena, Wembley on January 28 in a massive fight for both men. It’s an intriguing matchup and Yarde says he is going back to his roots of looking for the knockout and not letting it go the distance.

“I’ve got a plan in my head,” Yarde said. “I’m going to knock out everybody’. He said I couldn’t do that because I wouldn’t get any fights. In my first fight I knocked the guy out – we are friends now – then I couldn’t get a fight for three months. Tony said, ‘You see, because of your physique, the way you look, and you knocked out somebody, no one wants to fight you’.

“So, in the second fight I boxed the guy,” Yarde continued. “I still won, it was clear I won, Ohara Davies was there shouting the place down and, when they announced the other guy as the winner, he had a bloody nose, a bruised eye… They gave him the decision on their show, an army show, and afterwards the guy came into my changing room and tried to give me his medal, saying ‘you won that’. I said to keep it because now I was upset. If I got no fights, I got no fights, and after that I knocked out everyone I fought in the amateurs. So, I always wanted to have that great professional boxing style.”

Anthony Yarde (23-2) says when he lost, it is because he tried to be a technical boxer and win a decision. With that, he says he knows he has to be aggressive against Artur Beterbiev to win by KO.

“When all these things happened, it was when I went against my natural instinct and what I said I was going to do from the beginning. After that first fight with Lyndon Arthur I said ‘no more games, I know exactly what I’m going to do. And I’m going to do it’. It is like back to the future,” Yarde added.

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