{"id":3395,"date":"2022-12-07T04:03:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T04:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/artur-beterbiev-v-anthony-yarde-briton-targets-win-over-unbeaten-light-heavyweight-world-champion\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T04:03:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T04:03:53","slug":"artur-beterbiev-v-anthony-yarde-briton-targets-win-over-unbeaten-light-heavyweight-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/artur-beterbiev-v-anthony-yarde-briton-targets-win-over-unbeaten-light-heavyweight-world-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Artur Beterbiev v Anthony Yarde: Briton targets win over unbeaten light-heavyweight world champion"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Anthony Yarde has won 23 of his 25 professional fights, losing twice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Briton Anthony Yarde has vowed to turn “his belief into reality” and upset Artur Beterbiev to take his IBF, WBC and WBO light-heavyweight belts.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It feels like the right time for me. I came from nothing and if I get an opportunity I take it,” said Yarde.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russia-born Beterbiev, who now lives in Canada, has won all of his 18 fights inside the distance – the only current world champion to have done so.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I need to stop fighting monsters but I got into this sport to fight the best,” added Londoner Yarde. “Lions have no choice but to hunt if they are going hungry.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Since I’ve started boxing I’ve not had more than one week out of the gym. Beterbiev had more than 200 amateur fights and 18 professional, but I’m going to be sharp and focused.<\/span><\/p>\n

“In the light-heavyweight division he has been nothing but a wrecking ball, knocking out every opponent so far. He’s very powerful but I feel I’m faster and, by age, I’m fresher, but in experience I’m behind him.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Artur Beterbiev is unbeaten as a professional and fought at the 2012 Olympics in London as an amateur in the heavyweight category, where he lost in the quarter-finals to Oleksandr Usyk – the reigning world heavyweight champion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It will be Beterbiev’s first professional bout in Britain, but he has fought a British fighter before – <\/span>beating Callum Johnson<\/span><\/a> via a fourth-round knockout in Chicago in October 2018 – although he was knocked down for the first time in his career.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Anthony Yarde is a good fighter, he is strong – he is a body builder,” said Beterbiev.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I respect him and respect all my opponents… be ready.”<\/span><\/p>\n

For Yarde, it will be his second attempt to win a world title after being stopped in the 11th round when fighting away against Russian <\/span>Sergey Kovalev for the WBO belt<\/span><\/a> in August 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m getting a second chance and last time it did not feel the right time,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I was a rising prospect and only had 18 fights after 12 amateurs and I got chucked in.<\/span><\/p>\n