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Anthony Yarde
Anthony Yarde
	Yarde in 2016
Born	13 August 1991 (age 33); Hackney, London, England
Other names	The Beast from the East
	Statistics
Weight(s)	Light-heavyweight
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Reach	72 in (183 cm)
Stance	Orthodox
	Boxing record
Total fights	29
Wins	26
Wins by KO	24
Losses	3

Anthony Yarde (/ˈjɑːrd/ YARD; born 13 August 1991)^[1] is a British professional boxer. He challenged for the World Boxing Organization (WBO) light-heavyweight title in 2019, and for the unified World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and WBO titles in 2023. At regional level, he held the Commonwealth light-heavyweight title between 2021 and 2022.

Professional career

Yarde began boxing competitively 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]

Yarde 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 4 December 2021, Yarde defeated Lyndon Arthur in their much anticipated rematch via knockout in the 4th round.^[17]

On 28 January 2023, Yarde challenged WBC, IBF and WBO light-heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev at Wembley Arena in London, England. He lost the fight by stoppage in the eighth round.^[18]^[19]

Yarde defeated Ralfs Vilcans on points in a 10-round bout at the Copper Box Arena in London, England, on 19 October 2024.^[20]^[21]^[22]^[23]

Professional boxing record

29 fights	26 wins	3 losses
By knockout	24	2
By decision	2	1

No.	Result	Record	Opponent	Type	Round, time	Date	Location	Notes
29	Win	26–3	Ralfs Vilcans	PTS	10	19 Oct 2024	Copper Box Arena, London, England
28	Win	25–3	Marko Nikolic	KO	3 (10) 1:15	10 Feb 2024	Copper Box Arena, London, England
27	Win	24–3	Jorge Silva	KO	2 (10) 2:07	23 Sep 2023	OVO Arena Wembley, London, England
26	Loss	23–3	Artur Beterbiev	TKO	8 (12), 2:01	28 Jan 2023	OVO Arena Wembley, London, England	For WBC, IBF, and WBO light-heavyweight titles
25	Win	23–2	Stefani Koykov	KO	3 (10), 2:31	19 Nov 2022	Telford International Centre, Telford, England
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	KO	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	Sep 17, 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

^ "BoxRec: Anthony Yarde". BoxRec. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
^ Promotions, Queensberry (26 March 2015). "Light heavyweight Anthony Yarde signs with Frank Warren". WBN – World Boxing News.
^ "BoxRec: Anthony Yarde vs. Mitch Mitchell". BoxRec. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
^ Leitch, Adam (22 May 2017). "Chris Hobbs puts in a brave display but is beaten by Anthony Yarde for the Southern Area light heavyweight title | Daily Echo". Daily Echo. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
^ "BoxRec: Anthont Yarde vs. Chris Hobbs". BoxRec. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
^ Williamson, Chris (8 July 2017). "Anthony Yarde With Vicious First Round KO To Win WBO Belt". BoxingScene.com. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
^ "Anthony Yarde vs. Ryan Ford on Saunders-Monroe card on Sept 16".
^ "Anthony Yarde vs. Norbert Nemesapati For WBO Regional Title". BoxingScene.com. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
^ Gray, James (17 September 2017). "Anthony Yarde destroys Norbert Nemesapati to prove he is ready for British title shot | Boxing | Sport | Express.co.uk". Express. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
^ "Sergey Kovalev Survives Scare, Knocks Anthony Yarde Out in 11th". BoxingScene.com. 24 August 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
^ "Sergey Kovalev stops Anthony Yarde to retain WBO world light-heavyweight title". 24 August 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
^ "Yarde vs Ramirez – News, Tape, Ringwalk, TV, Streaming & Tickets". Box.Live. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
^ Christ, Scott (12 September 2020). "Yarde vs Spelman results: Anthony Yarde shakes rust, stops Dec Spelman, Lyndon Arthur next". Bad Left Hook. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
^ "Arthur vs Yarde – News, Tape, Ringwalk, TV, Streaming & Tickets". box.live. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
^ Lewis, Ron (5 December 2020). "Lyndon Arthur Holds Off Anthony Yarde's Late Rally, Wins Split Decision". BoxingScene.com. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
^ "Boxing News: Yarde crushes Theran in one » August 28, 2021". fightnews.com. 28 August 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
^ Barry, Coral (5 December 2021). "Anthony Yarde stops Lyndon Arthur with spectacular performance in fourth round of thrilling rematch". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
^ "Artur Beterbiev beats Anthony Yarde in bruising eight-round battle to defend light-heavyweight titles". Sky Sports. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
^ "Brilliant Artur Beterbiev stops brave Anthony Yarde in thrilling title fight". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
^ "Anthony Yarde drops opponent with first punch but labours to uninspiring decision win". Talksport. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
^ "Anthony Yarde blasts Ralfs Vilcans down, but has to go the distance at Copper Box arena". Sky Sports. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
^ "Anthony Yarde underwhelms on BOXXER debut in London". Boxing Scene. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
^ "Anthony Yarde Outpoints Ralfs Vilcans Over Ten Rounds; Michael McKinson, Shannon Courtenay Suffer Upset Defeats". The Ring. Retrieved 19 October 2024.

External links

Boxing record for Anthony Yarde from BoxRec (registration required)
Anthony Yarde profile at Frank Warren Promotions
Anthony Yarde – Profile, News Archive & Current Rankings at Box.Live

Sporting positions
Regional boxing titles
Preceded by Chris Hobbs	Southern Area light-heavyweight champion 20 May 2017 – November 2018 Vacated	Vacant Title next held by Andre Stirling
Preceded by Richard Baranyi	WBO European light-heavyweight champion 8 July 2017 – December 2018 Vacated	Vacant Title next held by Emil Markic
Vacant Title last held by Dominic Boesel	WBO Inter-Continental light-heavyweight champion 16 September 2017 – 24 August 2019 Failed to win world title	Vacant Title next held by Eleider Álvarez
Preceded by Lyndon Arthur	WBO Inter-Continental light-heavyweight champion 4 December 2021 – 28 January 2023 Failed to win world title	Vacant
Preceded by Lyndon Arthur	Commonwealth light-heavyweight champion 4 December 2021 – December 2022 Vacated	Vacant Title next held by Dan Azeez