David Benavidez defends his WBC Light Heavyweight World title against Anthony Yarde at the top of the bill of the Ring IV card in Riyadh, with Devin Haney challenging for Brian Norman Jr‘s WBO Welterweight World title as the co-main event. Boxing News brings you the results as they happen, as well as an unofficial scorecard for the main event.
Benavidez enters his third contest at 175lbs and makes his first defence of his belt since being upgraded to full champion after Dmitry Bivol vacated. He looks to keep his undefeated record in tact against Yarde, who has been a career-long light-heavy and is now in his third world title challenge, having previously fallen short against Sergey Kovalev and Artur Beterbiev.
Former undisputed lightweight world champion Haney, who also held a title at super lightweight, looks to make it three divisions against hard-hitting champion Norman Jr, who steps into the ring on a three-fight knockout streak. On the rest of the card, Abdullah Mason and Sam Noakes battle it out for the vacant WBO lightweight belt and Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez defends his WBC and WBO super flyweight straps against WBA champion Fernando Martinez.
Undercard results
Abdullah Mason vs Sam Noakes — lightweight
Result: –
Jesse Rodriguez vs Fernando Martinez — super flyweight
Result: –
Brian Norman Jr vs Devin Haney — welterweight
Result: –
David Benavidez vs Anthony Yarde — light heavyweight
This is a Boxing News live scorecard and not the official score from the judges.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benavidez | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Yarde | 0 |
Result: –
