I am a powerful and precise puncher » January 24, 2023

WBO #1 light heavyweight contender Anthony Yard promises to bring fire and brimstone to his unified world title challenge against unified WBC, IBF and WBO champion Artur Beterbiev, but in the United States on ESPN+, It will be broadcast live on Saturdays on BT Sport in the UK, but don’t do it. Expect him to lunge across the canvas and be torn apart by Beterbiev.

“How often do you see someone just out there swinging?” Yard asked.

“The greatest knockout puncher of all, like GGG, he had a tactical approach instead of just hitting and trying to knock people out. was

“Mike Tyson. People have called him a brawler. For years, disrespectfully. He said.

“Early in your career, even when you’re fighting someone you ‘must beat’, you find prospects who are fighting them because you’re not just going in and knocking someone out. That way it works.” I don’t. It’s boxing, it’s an art.

“You have to take someone apart and then hit the shot. I said this early on, my thing is I’m a strong and accurate puncher. Find it and land it, people will feel it.”

Yarde has done his best to resist drastic changes in his style as he climbs the pro ranks. It’s natural for fighters to adjust their game plan as the danger increases, but according to the Ilford men, the key isn’t to change according to externally suspected qualifications.

“In my heart I said I don’t want to run into the unknown, so it’s a mixture. But at the same time, I don’t want to have someone else’s career. That’s what happens in boxing.” Yes, people should tell you this, you should do this, you should do that.

“If I had listened to what everyone was saying, I wouldn’t be where I am today. When I started boxing, people said all sorts of things until I did.”

“It’s a compromise. You can’t please everyone in boxing or any other sport.

“I remember watching his fight on the commentary when Mike Tyson was knocking everyone out. People always have something to say.

“Then when he went 10 rounds, after all, they said he wasn’t real. So you can’t win. If you go to 10, win every round and don’t get hit. You When the stops, some say, “What is he learning from it?”

“He’s learning how to knock someone out! That’s what he does.

“That’s my job, too. The more I knocked people out, the more different ways I learned how to do it. That’s how I see it.”