Anthony Yarde hopes to follow Saturday’s fight with Lyndon Arthur by signing a new promotional agreement with Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions.

The 33-year-old light heavyweight fights Arthur for the third time – he lost to him via split decision in December 2020 before stopping him 12 months later – on the undercard of the middleweight contest between Chris Eubank Jnr and Conor Benn, at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

He does so with a sense of uncertainty surrounding his future, as a consequence of the way his career stalled despite him enhancing his reputation in defeat by Artur Beterbiev in January 2023.

Following him rebuilding with victories over Jorge Silva and Marko Nikolic, respectively of Portugal and Serbia, a contractual dispute with Queensberry contributed to the sought-after match-up with his fellow Briton Joshua Buatsi not being made and Yarde remaining inactive for eight months until October 2024, when he outpointed Latvia’s Ralfs Vilcans on a Boxxer promotion.

When he fights Arthur, also 33 years old and of Britain, Yarde will again feature on a Boxxer promotion, but he will thereafter resume being a free agent, and hopes to again work with Warren – perhaps partly as a consequence of seeing the Boxxer-promoted Buatsi lose to Callum Smith.

It was Warren who guided Yarde into his light-heavyweight world-title fights with Russians Beterbiev and Sergey Kovalev, and Yarde told BoxingScene: “I’m ready to talk to Frank Warren again, and Boxxer. Hopefully we can agree terms with Frank Warren, and then move forward.

“There’s history [with Warren] – everyone knows I’m loyal. I’m a loyal person.

“My previous promotional contract with Frank Warren had expired. In boxing, you have a contract for a reason. The contract had expired, and we was in negotiations. 

“I was trying to get a new deal in place. 

“I was inactive for that period because I was in a contractual dispute. Once that term run out, I had an offer from Boxxer for a one-fight deal, so I took it.”