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Exclusive: Anthony Yarde reveals Frank Warren turned down world title opportunity for him before Christmas 2018

As one of Frank Warren's prized assets, Anthony Yarde has started taking the boxing world by storm. But, now is not the right time.

By Alex McCarthy
1st February 2019, 6:25 pm
Updated: 2nd February 2019, 10:01 am

Anthony Yarde had that superstar aura about him right from the beginning of his professional career, but now he is 17-0 with 16 knockouts to his name, his stardom is only growing.

The 27-year-old will be back in action against Medhi Amar on February 23, but he could have been fighting for a world title if he had gotten his way.

BT Sport invited talkSPORT to the Peacock Gym in east London to train with Yarde and then talk to the light heavyweight prospect and he revealed there has already been a world title fight offer.

He said: "I'll tell you the story, the scenario [laughs]. Me and Tunde [Ajayi, his trainer] we're sitting in the sauna, we'd just done some training, swimming and we're chilling in the sauna and he goes 'you know they offered you world title next fight?' and I'm like 'yeah?! What, world title? Next fight?!' and this is exactly what he did [gestures calm down] 'relax, it's not time yet'.

And I was like 'what do you mean it's not time yet, bro? That's a world title shot! What you talking about?' and he's like 'It's not time yet' [still gesturing calm down].

Number one, what they were offering for a world title fight in terms of money was ridiculous, it was a joke. It wasn't world title money. And he goes 'do you believe in yourself? You're going to do things on your terms. You've got yourself to this position; number one with the WBO, ranked number eight on BoxRec and you've got yourself to this position by being patient and doing what you need to do. It's going to come'. And it's true.

"Him [Ajayi] and Frank Warren had already had the conversation and agreed amongst themselves that it's not time yet. I said I wanted to have a 10-year-plus career, I'm three years in now and I feel like it's coming."

One would assume given that Yarde is number one in the WBO rankings, that perhaps a date with the winner of Eleider Alvarez and Sergey Kovalev this weekend was on the table.

However, time is on Yarde's side and he referenced Anthony Joshua when mapping out his own career.

"Talk about experience, I'm only going to mention this guy's name because everybody in Britain knows him - Anthony Joshua. He was an Olympic gold medallist and he fought for a world title in his fourth year as a professional," Yarde pointed out.

"He had loads of amateur fights, loads of experience. I'm still in my third year as a professional and already people are talking about me fighting for a world title, so there's no need for me to rush."

Undefeated Anthony Yarde defends his WBO Inter-Continental Light Heavyweight belt against Medhi Amar, exclusively live on BT Sport, Saturday 23 February. For more information go to bt.com/sport.

 
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Strike said:
Fucking brilliant isn't it? Farcical "progress" since 2017.
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whats the point of rushing him if hes not ready? the people around him clearly think hes not good enough at the moment, if thats the case then they are doing the right thing.

compare the way warrington was brought on (and dropped by matchroom incidently because he wouldnt step up fast) to cheesman and ritson.
 
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raymann said:
whats the point of rushing him if hes not ready? the people around him clearly think hes not good enough at the moment, if thats the case then they are doing the right thing.

compare the way warrington was brought on (and dropped by matchroom incidently because he wouldnt step up fast) to cheesman and ritson.
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There's not rushing someone and then there's giving them pointless fights that hinder their development. Yarde will regress as he constantly faces people who offer nothing to him by way of obstacles or difficulties to overcome. He walks through punches because they won't give him anyone with even decent dig, so he will get bad habits ingrained.

There's nothing wrong with losing a fight anyway. Ritson will have learnt more from his loss than from having 5 fights with guys half his size who he'd batter inside 2.

Yarde had a step up...at the end of 2017. His opponents since then have been poorer, so we have a guy who will have spent 14 months learning nothing, and facing guys who are a step back from who he faced in his step up fight December 2017.
 
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TheBoxingMadMan said:
Exclusive: Anthony Yarde reveals Frank Warren turned down world title opportunity for him before Christmas 2018

As one of Frank Warren's prized assets, Anthony Yarde has started taking the boxing world by storm. But, now is not the right time.

By Alex McCarthy
1st February 2019, 6:25 pm
Updated: 2nd February 2019, 10:01 am

Anthony Yarde had that superstar aura about him right from the beginning of his professional career, but now he is 17-0 with 16 knockouts to his name, his stardom is only growing.

The 27-year-old will be back in action against Medhi Amar on February 23, but he could have been fighting for a world title if he had gotten his way.

BT Sport invited talkSPORT to the Peacock Gym in east London to train with Yarde and then talk to the light heavyweight prospect and he revealed there has already been a world title fight offer.

He said: "I'll tell you the story, the scenario [laughs]. Me and Tunde [Ajayi, his trainer] we're sitting in the sauna, we'd just done some training, swimming and we're chilling in the sauna and he goes 'you know they offered you world title next fight?' and I'm like 'yeah?! What, world title? Next fight?!' and this is exactly what he did [gestures calm down] 'relax, it's not time yet'.

And I was like 'what do you mean it's not time yet, bro? That's a world title shot! What you talking about?' and he's like 'It's not time yet' [still gesturing calm down].

Number one, what they were offering for a world title fight in terms of money was ridiculous, it was a joke. It wasn't world title money. And he goes 'do you believe in yourself? You're going to do things on your terms. You've got yourself to this position; number one with the WBO, ranked number eight on BoxRec and you've got yourself to this position by being patient and doing what you need to do. It's going to come'. And it's true.

"Him [Ajayi] and Frank Warren had already had the conversation and agreed amongst themselves that it's not time yet. I said I wanted to have a 10-year-plus career, I'm three years in now and I feel like it's coming."

One would assume given that Yarde is number one in the WBO rankings, that perhaps a date with the winner of Eleider Alvarez and Sergey Kovalev this weekend was on the table.

However, time is on Yarde's side and he referenced Anthony Joshua when mapping out his own career.

"Talk about experience, I'm only going to mention this guy's name because everybody in Britain knows him - Anthony Joshua. He was an Olympic gold medallist and he fought for a world title in his fourth year as a professional," Yarde pointed out.

"He had loads of amateur fights, loads of experience. I'm still in my third year as a professional and already people are talking about me fighting for a world title, so there's no need for me to rush."

Undefeated Anthony Yarde defends his WBO Inter-Continental Light Heavyweight belt against Medhi Amar, exclusively live on BT Sport, Saturday 23 February. For more information go to bt.com/sport.

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Nice spin on that from Anthony lol.

Joshua had been a pro for 2.5 years (1.5) less then you and won his IBF belt.
 
#17 ·
Strike said:
There's not rushing someone and then there's giving them pointless fights that hinder their development. Yarde will regress as he constantly faces people who offer nothing to him by way of obstacles or difficulties to overcome. He walks through punches because they won't give him anyone with even decent dig, so he will get bad habits ingrained.

There's nothing wrong with losing a fight anyway. Ritson will have learnt more from his loss than from having 5 fights with guys half his size who he'd batter inside 2.

Yarde had a step up...at the end of 2017. His opponents since then have been poorer, so we have a guy who will have spent 14 months learning nothing, and facing guys who are a step back from who he faced in his step up fight December 2017.
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see this is where i disagree. hes had no am career and a v short pro career. most of the learning and development he is doing is in his fight prep, not the few rounds he actually fights. its very telling that you dont hear warren clamouring for him to step up, its pretty obvious that all the people around him think hes just not good enough.

i totally agree about the loss thing, its one thing that mma has right, but cheeseman at the weekend would have got nothing positive from getting a total beating from start to finish, with the improvement in card quality and all round matchmaking british boxing has gone through there seems to be this clamour for fighters to step up crazy fast, all fuelled by multiple channels trying to run ppv.
 
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raymann said:
see this is where i disagree. hes had no am career and a v short pro career. most of the learning and development he is doing is in his fight prep, not the few rounds he actually fights. its very telling that you dont hear warren clamouring for him to step up, its pretty obvious that all the people around him think hes just not good enough.

i totally agree about the loss thing, its one thing that mma has right, but cheeseman at the weekend would have got nothing positive from getting a total beating from start to finish, with the improvement in card quality and all round matchmaking british boxing has gone through there seems to be this clamour for fighters to step up crazy fast, all fuelled by multiple channels trying to run ppv.
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He has shown zero progress from where he was at 18 months ago to now. His gym work appears to be pad sessions with a guy widely regarded as a complete fraud, and he does fuck all sparring. Yarde may have fuck all am experience, but he's been a pro for nearly 4 years. What am experience did Nathan Gorman have? He had 12 fights in total, so the same as Yarde.

He has already fought tough journeymen like Sokolowski and been in with Sean Turner and Cojanu. Things that he learned from.
 
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