Artur Beterbiev beats Anthony Yarde in bruising eight-round battle to defend light-heavyweight titles | Boxing News

Artur Beterbiev defended his WBC, WBO and IBF light heavyweight titles with an eight-round victory over Anthony Yarde at London’s Wembley Arena.

This world title fight is an incredible fight.

Boxing in his hometown, the challenger started off sharp, moving lightly as he tried to catch Beterbiev with a left hook and the occasional right.

The champion was aggressive throughout, coming in and looking for heavy punches. But Yarde harassed him, sometimes falling when Beterbiev advanced.

Yarde fought hard, setting the pace. He opened up in the second round and jumped forward with a nice right uppercut.

Only at the end of the third round, Beterbiev hurt Yarde with a left hook. The champion felt his advantage and landed a powerful punch in the fourth.

But just as Yarde appeared to be in trouble in the fifth inning, he exited. A big right forced Beterbiev to hold for a moment.

The 38-year-old champion began to look tired and took cuts.

Yarde landed a fierce left hook and a right hook, connecting with an explosive force. But Beterbiev turned him around again, trapped him in the ropes and delivered a vicious combination to the body.

In the eighth round, Beterbiev found the last shot. He stunned Yarde with a short right and put him down with a hook. Yarde gets up but he’s in too much pain and the referee steps in to end it at 2:01.

An exciting heavyweight prospect Moses It will hurtworld and European youth champion as an amateur, making his professional debut on the undercard.

Southpaw made short work of Marcel Bodostop him in 23 seconds after the line up two left crosses returned to the Czech blast from his feet.

Before in the bill, his brother Karol Itauma suffered a shock loss upset. Argentina’s Ezequiel Osvaldo Maderna tagging the young southpaw with straight rights before finally dropping him with a brutal cross in the fifth round.

This left Itauma on the canvas and he was counted out at 1:04.

Artem Dalakian remained undefeated as he defended his WBA world flyweight title with a unanimous decision win over a previously undefeated challenger. David Jimenez.