Ward was injured. He needed time out to recover. That's why he turned down the fight. That being said Ward behaved like a jackass when he complained about Bute signing to fight Froch after he had turned him down. It also annoyed me how Ward had been saying for ages that Bute was the top guy in the division that the Super Six winner had to fight to prove who was the best but then backtracked on it when he reached the final and started talking about how Bute was unproven. Sure, Bute was unproven and Froch was saying the same kind of **** but it annoyed me nonetheless. His word and opinion lost a lot of credibility in my eyes when he did that.
youre a dumb ass he just came through the winner of an elite tourney where he beat the 2 best guys in froch and kessler. while bute was fighting brian magees of the world. maybe bute should have entered the real mans tourney. your argument is invalid...you lose :hi:
A duck if he signed to fight somebody else but he didn't. Get it? How could he duck somebody when he was out injured for near a year.
Bute beat two common opponents of Ward and one of Frochs more easily than they did. It's revisionist to say he needed more credibility at that point. Ward-Bute made sense and would've made plenty of dollars, too. Froch was more than willing to play ball and wound up getting the payday and credit instead.
this is so irrelevant, but at least you can write not bad...that's quite an accomplishment bravo to you! boxing is a business and a fight with bute would have been great business so making up excuses is called ducking no? :think
I'm not sure why didn't Ward accept to fight Bute, but the whole thing about Bute being "unproven" didn't make sense. Even if we assume that he was indeed unproven, he would still be at least #4 behind Ward, Kessler and Froch, so either way there was nobody else for Andre Ward to fight at the time. But in reality, Bute was considered number 1 by many, even prior to the Super 6, he was among the biggest names out there and would be the biggest payday of Andre Ward's career. Also, Ward himself said that Bute was the man and that the winner of Super 6 should fight him after the tournament to determine who was the true number 1. With all of that taken into account, it really made no sense for Ward to say that. If he fought and defeated Bute after the Super 6, he would've become the biggest name in the division and his career would likely went the much better way.
No, it is you who is irrelevant. Your opinion amounts to a pool of diarrhoea cat ****. Ward has just completed back to back competition with the world's proven best, and won. Why would he then go on to fight a nobody in Quebec of all places? That is a task more suited to the Super 6 runner up, Froch. Had Bute managed to beat Froch there is no doubt that Ward would have made a fight with the hype. But as Ward and most of the boxing world knew, Bute was a hype.
Yes the fight against Dawson was a better fight and made up for the disappointment of the Bute fight not happening. Ward really had a lot of momentum after the Dawson win, especially as he stopped Dawson and was entertaining in doing so. Though the Bute fight was still a missed opportunity as he could have easily fit it in between Froch and Dawson as his broken hand was healed by February 2012. If Ward had also fought Bute instead of Froch, Froch's career may have gone a very different direction as that win really resurrected his career after being dominated by Ward.
Bute approached Ward immediately after the Super Six final for a fight, and before December 2011 was even over Ward had turned him down. Dawson called out Ward in April 2012, around the same time Bute and Froch finalized their deal, and Ward would not fight Dawson until September 2012. It was not a case of Dawson or Bute, Ward could have fought both if he'd wanted to.