Anthony Yarde

Anthony Yarde
Yarde in 2016
Statistics
Nickname(s)	The Beast from the East
Weight(s)	Light-heavyweight
Height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Reach	72 in (183 cm)
Nationality	British
Born	(1991-08-13) 13 August 1991 (age 30) Hackney, London, England
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	24
Wins	22
Wins by KO	21
Losses	2

Anthony Dwayne Duncan Yarde (born 13 August 1991)^[1] is a British professional boxer. He has challenged once for the WBO light-heavyweight title in 2019, and has held the Commonwealth light-heavyweight title since 2021.

Professional career[]

Yarde began boxing at a relatively late age and only had twelve amateur fights prior to turning professional.^[2] In May 2015, he made his professional debut with a second-round knockout (KO) victory over Mitch Mitchell.^[3]

After compiling a record of 10–0 (9 KOs) he captured the Southern Area light-heavyweight title, dropping reigning champion Chris Hobbs to the canvas six times^[4] en route to a fourth-round technical knockout (TKO) victory on 20 May 2017 at the Copper Box Arena in London.^[5]

Two months later he defeated Richard Baranyi via first-round TKO on 8 July at the Copper Box Arena, capturing the WBO European light-heavyweight title.^[6]

He was scheduled to face Canadian boxer Ryan Ford, a former mixed martial artist, on 16 September 2017 for the vacant WBO Inter-Continental light-heavyweight title.^[7] Nobert Nemesapati was brought in as a replacement after Ford pulled out of the bout.^[8] After dropping his opponent to the canvas twice in the second round, Yarde captured his second regional title—retaining his WBO European title in the process—with a third-round stoppage via corner retirement (RTD).^[9]

He made three defences of his WBO regional titles and a further two defences of his WBO Inter-Continental title, winning all five by stoppage, before challenging Sergey Kovalev for the WBO light-heavyweight title on 24 August 2019 at the Traktor Sport Palace in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Yarde suffered the first defeat of his professional career, losing by TKO in the eleventh round. Yarde seemed comfortable in the early rounds, staying out of range and keeping Kovalev at bay with speed and movement. After six rounds of an even, back and forth contest, Yarde began landing accurate hooks to Kovalev's body in the seventh and eighth rounds that appeared to hurt the champion. In the last minute of the eighth, Yarde landed a straight-right to the head of Kovalev which had the veteran in trouble. Yarde followed up with an accurate salvo of power punches but was unable to capitalise, allowing the visibly hurt Kovalev to stay on his feet for the remainder of the round. After his success in the seventh and eighth rounds, Yarde appeared to tire and lose momentum in the ninth, allowing Kovalev to take control of the fight with combination punches and stiff jabs that began to frequently land on Yarde. The tenth round saw much of the same. In the final 20 seconds of the round, after being backed up against the ropes by Kovalev and being on the receiving end of a flurry of punches with no reply, Yarde was seemingly saved by the bell, which appeared to ring 8 seconds before the end of the round. In round eleven, sensing Yarde's fatigue, Kovalev upped the pressure and increased his punch output, eventually dropping Yarde with a spearing left-jab to win the fight by knockout. At the time of the stoppage, all three judges had Kovalev ahead with the scorecards reading 98-92, 97-94 and 96-93.^[10] In a post-fight interview with Steve Bunce for BT Sport, Kovalev praised Yarde's defence and boxing IQ, insisting Yarde will "100%" be a world champion in the future.^[11]

In his comeback fight, Yarde faced Diego Jair Ramirez on 8 February, 2020 in a six rounder. Yarde, then ranked #7 by the WBO and #11 by the WBC knocked out his unranked opponent in two rounds.^[12]

In his next fight, Yarde fought Dec Spelman. Yarde looked a little rusty, but still managed to outperform his opponent, knocking him out in the sixth round of the contest, setting himself up for a shot at the vacant Commonwealth light-heavyweight title.^[13]

On 5 December, 2020, Yarde, ranked #9 by The Ring and the WBC, #1 by the WBO and #10 by the IBF at light heavyweight faced Lyndon Arthur, who was ranked #6 by the WBO and the IBF for the Commonwealth light-heavyweight title. Arthur injured his right hand during the warm-up and utilized his jab for most of the fight. This would prove successful for Arthur, as he ended up winning the fight via split-decision, 115-114, 115-114 and 111-117.^[14][15]

On 28 August 2021, Yarde faced Colombian Alex Theran. In the first round, Yarde dropped Theran with a left hook to the body. Theran just survived the count, but succumbed to a second left hook to the body shortly afterwards. The fight ended 2 minutes and 32 seconds in to the first round.^[16]

On 4th December 2021, Yarde defeated Lyndon Arthur in their much anticipated rematch via knockout in the 4th round.

Professional boxing record[]

No.	Result	Record	Opponent	Type	Round, time	Date	Location	Notes
24	Win	22–2	Lyndon Arthur	KO	4 (12), 1:27	4 Dec 2021	Copper Box Arena, London, England	Won Commonwealth and WBO Inter-Continental light-heavyweight titles
23	Win	21–2	Alex Theran	TKO	1 (10), 2:32	28 Aug 2021	Arena Birmingham, Birmingham, England
22	Loss	20–2	Lyndon Arthur	SD	12	5 Dec 2020	Church House, London, England	For Commonwealth and vacant WBO Inter-Continental light-heavyweight titles
21	Win	20–1	Dec Spelman	TKO	6 (10), 2:42	12 Sep 2020	BT Sport Studio, London, England
20	Win	19–1	Diego Jair Ramirez	TKO	2 (6), 2:55	8 Feb 2020	Discoteca Memphis, Madrid, Spain
19	Loss	18–1	Sergey Kovalev	TKO	11 (12), 2:04	24 Aug 2019	Traktor Sport Palace, Chelyabinsk, Russia	For WBO light heavyweight title
18	Win	18–0	Travis Reeves	TKO	5 (10), 0:48	8 Mar 2019	Royal Albert Hall, London, England	Retained WBO Inter-Continental light-heavyweight title
17	Win	17–0	Walter Gabriel Sequeira	TKO	4 (10), 2:14	20 Oct 2018	Brentwood Centre, Brentwood, England	Retained WBO Inter-Continental light-heavyweight title
16	Win	16–0	Dariusz Sęk	TKO	7 (10), 2:17	23 Jun 2018	The O2 Arena, London, England	Retained WBO European and WBO Inter-Continental light-heavyweight titles
15	Win	15–0	Tony Averlant	RTD	7 (10), 3:00	24 Feb 2018	York Hall, London, England	Retained WBO European and WBO Inter-Continental light-heavyweight titles
14	Win	14–0	Nikola Sjekloća	TKO	4 (10), 1:52	9 Dec 2017	Copper Box Arena, London, England	Retained WBO European and WBO Inter-Continental light-heavyweight titles
13	Win	13–0	Norbert Nemesapati	RTD	3 (12), 3:00	16 Sep 2017	Copper Box Arena, London, England	Retained WBO European light-heavyweight title; Won vacant WBO Inter-Continental light-heavyweight title
12	Win	12–0	Richard Baranyi	TKO	1 (10), 2:21	8 Jul 2017	Copper Box Arena, London, England	Won WBO European light-heavyweight title
11	Win	11–0	Chris Hobbs	TKO	4 (10), 2:51	20 May 2017	Copper Box Arena, London, England	Won Southern Area light-heavyweight title
10	Win	10–0	Darren Snow	KO	1 (6), 2:17	22 Apr 2017	Leicester Arena, Leicester, England
9	Win	9–0	Ferenc Albert	TKO	1 (6), 1:36	25 Nov 2016	Brentwood Centre, Brentwood, England
8	Win	8–0	Rayford Johnson	TKO	1 (6), 2:10	17 Sep 2016	AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas, US
7	Win	7–0	Grzegorz Semik	TKO	2 (6), 1:24	10 Jun 2016	York Hall, London, England
6	Win	6–0	Tzvetozar Iliev	TKO	2 (6), 2:40	30 Apr 2016	Copper Box Arena, London, England
5	Win	5–0	David Sipos	TKO	1 (6), 2:53	25 Mar 2016	York Hall, London, England
4	Win	4–0	Curtis Gargano	TKO	1 (4), 1:35	19 Dec 2015	Manchester Arena, Manchester, England
3	Win	3–0	Tamas Danko	TKO	1 (4), 1:40	30 Oct 2015	Harrow Leisure Centre, London, England
2	Win	2–0	Stanislavs Makarenko	PTS	4	12 Jun 2015	York Hall, London, England
1	Win	1–0	Mitch Mitchell	KO	2 (4), 0:15	9 May 2015	The SSE Arena Wembley, London, England

References[]

External links[]

• Boxing record for Anthony Yarde from BoxRec
• Anthony Yarde profile at Frank Warren Promotions
• Anthony Yarde - Profile, News Archive & Current Rankings at Box.Live