{"id":297368,"date":"2025-07-28T02:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297368\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T02:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:09:18","slug":"yarde-backing-himself-to-produce-benavidez-upset-on-nov-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297368\/","title":{"rendered":"Yarde backing himself to produce Benavidez upset on Nov. 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of the talk is centered around David Benavidez <\/a>and his KO power. Anthony Yarde<\/a>, however, is wondering where\u2019s his respect?
Both rated Top 5 in The Ring\u2019s 175-pound rankings, they officially throw down on Nov. 22 at “Ring IV: Night of Champions,”<\/a> at ANB Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on DAZN<\/a>.
Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs) hasn\u2019t been in the division for long, but Yarde knows he packs a punch<\/a>. Sort of.<\/p>\n

Although most of Benavidez’s opponents didn\u2019t make it to the final bell during his time as a super middleweight, Oleksandr Gvozdyk<\/a> and David Morrell<\/a> went the distance in losing fairly wide decisions.<\/p>\n

Yarde (27-3, 24 KOs) knows a few things are slanted in Benavidez\u2019s favor. But, when it comes to power, not only does he believe that box is checked on his side, he\u2019s also convinced that he can stop him.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne hundred percent,\u201d Yarde told The Ring<\/a> when asked if he can knock out the WBC champion.
Yarde\u2019s record isn\u2019t perfect, but he is in form. In his last four contests, he emerged with his hand raised, including against Lyndon Arthur on April 26, to close the book on their rivalry.<\/a><\/p>\n

You wouldn\u2019t call Yarde a betting man, but he does pay attention to what oddsmakers have to say. So, unsurprisingly, his ears perked up when he got wind that he wasn\u2019t the favorite.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Could he be apoplectic about it? Of course he can, but deep down he couldn\u2019t care less about conjecture. His main focus is on putting his body through training camp. Once it\u2019s completed and the first bell rings to single their main event on Ring IV, Yarde is confident that his work will show and prove when he\u2019s out there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m gonna be the underdog, but they know that I\u2019m one of those people. Everyone\u2019s gonna be excited to see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All of the talk is centered around David Benavidez and his KO power. Anthony Yarde, however, is wondering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[15227,1935,19520,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-297368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-anthony-yarde","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-david-benavidez","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114928429540743608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}