Round-by-Round: David Benavidez vs. Anthony Yarde - 22 November 2025

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Live from ANB Arena in Riyadh on 22 November 2025
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Preliminary Card: 8 pm BST | Price: Free
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Running Order

Pre-Show - 8 pm GMT | 3 pm ET | 12 pm PT | 11 pm KSA

Juan Carlos Guerito vs. Barker Ssewanyana

6 Round Super-Middleweight Bout
Julio Porras Ruiz vs. Pius Mpenda

4 Round Lightweight Bout
Sultan Almohammed vs. Umesh Chavan

6 Round Super-Featherweight Bout
Mohammed Alakel vs. Jiaming Li

PPV Card - 9:45 pm GMT | 4:45 pm ET | 1:45 pm PT | 12:45 am KSA

10 Round Middleweight Bout
Vito Mielnicki Jr vs. Samuel Nmomah

Followed by ~ 10:30pm GMT ~ 6:30pm ET

Vacant WBO Lightweight Championship
Abdullah Mason vs. Sam Noakes

Followed by ~ 11:30pm GMT ~ 6:30pm ET

Unified WBC, WBO & WBA Super-Flyweight Championship
Jesse Rodriguez vs. Fernando Daniel Martinez

Followed by ~ 12:30am GMT ~ 7:30pm ET

WBO Welterweight Championship
Brian Norman Jr. vs. Devin Haney

Main Event

WBC Light-Heavyweight Championship
David Benavidez vs. Anthony Yarde

[forcefraser]

Nice, I'll be pleasantly steamed by the time the Mason v Noakes fight starts

[SeanBrennan]

Nice, I'll be pleasantly steamed by the time the Mason v Noakes fight starts

I've just bought it as I didn't check times, I will definitely be asleep. The cats will watch it though.

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Watch him do a face off with Haney or Norman.

[SeanBrennan]

it's on now, looking forward to it

[gilgamesh]

We got a 16 year old Debutee here about to be in action.

[jameswilson]

You have to be over 18 to box pro here in the UL don’t you?

Always been amazed seeing how young some of the Mexicans are when they have their first pro fights.

[gilgamesh]

The Kid is doing decent here against a guy who seems to be just looking to survive.

[skanksta]

I mean, he's 16...

It's like Hanson or Kriss Kross - you kinda have to like it 'cos you're so impressed.
Surely bloody stupid for a long-term career tho..? What's he gonna do - make his title run @ 20..?!

[Ricky]

Not watching but hoping Yarde can do it, third time lucky.

Surprised he's such a big underdog, Benavidez is very inactive, that could go against him.

[skanksta]

Mildly impressed with this Sultan kid, much more promising than the other Saudi they keep pushing..
Got a R1 stoppage and a great jab.

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Forgot to post it

[Kilburn]

It must be the American commentary but I’m finding myself looking back fondly at ESPN’s Friday Night Fights. It was always a nice little start to a boxing weekend.

Atlas has his critics but he was great on the technical side. I miss those shows.

[Ezzard]

Goodness, I wish Barry Jones was commentating, this is awful.

[Kilburn]

I prefer the Brit commentary too for the big shows, particularly when Brit fighters are involved.

To be fair maybe it’s just a rose-tinted, pre-internet memory thing. Back when Kevin Lueshing travelled over to Nashville to face the daunting prospect of a fight with Felix Trinidad in 1997, how much would the Showtime crew have really known about Kevin? It’s a lot different these days.

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I prefer the Brit commentary too for the big shows, particularly when Brit fighters are involved.

To be fair maybe it’s just a rose-tinted, pre-internet memory thing. Back when Kevin Lueshing travelled over to Nashville to face the daunting prospect of a fight with Felix Trinidad in 1997, how much would the Showtime crew have really known about Kevin? It’s a lot different these days.

British commentary is good. And they respect American fighters.

US commentators don’t respect Brits.

Give me any Brit commentators minus Smith.

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I like Alakel.

I know he’s favoured on these shows and they’re clearly trying to build up a Saudi boxer

I know Gallagher trained him at the beginning.

Now he’s got Abel Sanchez..

Let’s see what he can do for him.

[Cyclops]

Goodness, I wish Barry Jones was commentating, this is awful.

They're super boring, aren't they? Adam Smith is like nails on a blackboard but he's preferable to these dullards

[gregregegg]

How long till the main 4 fights??

[Bobbyptsd]

I like Mora and the rest of DAZN crew. I don't need someone shouting at me constantly about what an incredible event this is.
I like Barry Jones, but not when he's on with Smith because the latter won't shut up long enough to hear the former anyway.

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How long till the main 4 fights??

One more round of this

[Kilburn]

One more fight after the current one, then it’s Maidstone’s finest.

[Kilburn]

Samuel Nmomah I’m not sure about, doesn’t look to have mixed in great company. Could be a 10 round snooze fest.

[Cyclops]

All this arse kissing of Turki, who by plenty of accounts is pretty evil, still bothers me.