Anthony Yarde isn’t convinced David Benavidez is fully focused on their fight.

The British contender can’t help but believe Benavidez has planned too far ahead before they’ve fought for his WBC light heavyweight title. He has heard and read Benavidez’s comments about challenging Dmitry Bivol when The Ring and former undisputed champ returns from back surgery, eventually facing another former fully unified champ in Artur Beterbiev before moving up to cruiserweight for a fight with WBA/WBO champ Gilberto Ramirez.

Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs) contends that he merely answers questions honestly when he is interviewed. Those discussions, from Benavidez’s viewpoint, are not a reflection of how he is approaching his title defense against the heavy-handed Yarde (27-3, 24 KOs).

Regardless, Yarde thinks Benavidez’s unblemished record has given the Phoenix native an aura of invincibility that was beaten out of him in technical-knockout losses to Beterbiev and another former unified champ, Sergey Kovalev.

Knowing what it’s like to lose and dealing with the damage defeats do to a boxer’s career, is an advantage Yarde feels will help him when they square off in the 12-round main event of “The Ring IV: Night of Champions” card November 22 at ANB Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Yarde detailed his perspective as part of a recent “Inside The Ring” interview with co-hosts Max Kellerman and Mike Coppinger and panelists Chris Arreola and LeSean McCoy.

“For me, one thing I know about myself is, again, I’ve taken a loss before and I know how to handle it,” Yarde said. “So, I feel like that’s what makes me more dangerous in this fight. David Benavidez has never lost and I feel like sometimes that can be a bit, you know, that can be overconfidence. I’ve seen, you know, certain interviews, and when he’s talking about fights after me and things like that. So, hopefully he’s focused for this fight because from what I’ve learned from studying the sport of boxing, that’s how people slip up.”

Russia’s Kovalev stopped Yarde in the 11th round of a bout Yarde trailed on all three scorecards in August 2019 in Kovalev’s hometown of Chelyabinsk, Russia. That win enabled Kovalev to secure a career-high payday against Canelo Alvarez in his following fight.

Yarde led Beterbiev on one card when the Russian knockout artist stopped him in the eighth round of their January 2023 bout in London.

Then-unbeaten Brit Lyndon Arthur is the only other opponent to defeat Yarde, but Yarde avenged that split-decision loss in December 2020 by knocking out Arthur in the fourth round of their rematch almost a year later. Yarde also unanimously outpointed Arthur in their 12-round rubber match on April 26 in London.

“After I fought Beterbiev he said I’m up next,” Yarde said. “After I fought Kovalev, he said I’m up next as well. Mexicans, their styles are very, very different. David Benavidez has been ... you can call it almost perfect so far. And these are the things that make me thrive. I’ll just be real with you. I don’t want no trying to persuade the public or anything like that. The public that have watched me fight before, they know they’re gonna see a good fight. But I’m gonna be the underdog and I just want everyone to tune in.”

The 12-round bout between Benavidez, 28, and Yarde, 34, will headline a DAZN Pay-Per-View show in the United States ($59.99) and the UK (£24.99). DraftKings established Benavidez, The Ring’s No. 2 contender in the 175-pound division, as a 10-1 favorite versus the fourth-ranked Yarde.