Andre Ward " I am not gonna chase these guys"

Andre ward has baby nuts bro, he runs like a chicken

 

ugghhh

 

Ward by his performances in the ring is the best Supermiddleweight but the focus of this division has shifted to England with the Froch, Groves battles and tremendous fan interest. Ward seems more interested in commenting on fights which he is very good at. I think the hunger for boxing is gone and he should move on to a lucrative career in boxing broadcasting. I see Carl Froch in jeans and Rumpled T-shirts in interviews. He is a tradesman, a fighter, a man that beats up other men with his fists. Every time I see Ward on T.V. he is in an Armani suit admiring himself in the T.V. Monitor. Ward knows he can make beaucoup money in sports broadcasting so why get hit in the face?

 

then keep to commentating

 

So when names are brought up as potential fights, why does he always seem to have an excuse? As the 'man to beat', he should be out there fighting the best, something he doesn't seem willing to do. I suppose this is more of a contract issue where he expects these other fighters to surrender things that don't add up to his ability to bring out the crowds.

Ward thinks he's hot ****, but the fact is even a Froch vs Chavez Jr fight would draw more interest.

So is he going to fight, or is he going to stay by the wayside as the division passes him by? Some champ.

 

:good

 

Ward is does not have to chase Stevenson, as a matter of fact, it is Stevenson that is chasing Ward. Stevenson said he would fight Ward at 168, called Ward out live on HBO, so Ward is a liar....................Ward also said that Kovalev is too big for him.........................Ward is not a big money fight anyway, not many seats in Ward's home town either.............

 

Hmm .... well Ward is the best SMW in the world, but good luck with a boxing career if he's not gonna chase fights and doesn't have a promoter who'll do it for him.

 

only a few thugs care about watching Ward fight. he's a total bore in and out of the ring.

 

Yes Andre Ward is the best SMW and p4p top five but the fact of the matter is he can't attract flies to ****. Fighting Ward is very high risk/low reward financially. Carl "The King of England" Froch has just cashed a career high purse, fought in-front of 80,000 spectators and is about to head to Las Vegas for another mammoth pay-day. Andre Ward is sat at home in Oakland twiddling his thumbs. Says it all really.

 

He may be the best at 168 but he seems a very stupid person or atleast very naive. He nor his diehard fans seem to realise that these challengers do not need him. All they have to do it avoid him or ignore him for a while longer and he will just fade away into obscurity. While at the same time they gain money and fans and create a legacy. It will be these fans and these fights that people talk about in many years to come. He may be the best at 168 but he is no champion. A true champion overcomes the odds to find victory, not reduce the odds until victory assured or atleast more likely. People remember you for what you do not what you could have done. Look at Calzaghe, bundles of skill but even now his career is picked apart on a daily basis because he did not act like a true champion till the twilight of his career. Staying at home fighting easy fights and whining the world is scared of you will not create a legacy

 

What you're seeing with Ward now is the value of maintaining unified titles and staying active.

People always like to ask, "who cares about a belt". The answer is, boxing fans, boxing managers, promoters, and fighters do.

Unifying belts isn't just about collecting ABC straps because they look pretty on Boxrec; it's about cutting off the other potential avenues for your contenders to go down if they want a title shot. It's how avoided fighters force the division to go through them instead of being funneled through the weakest path to a belt (which still happens anyways- just look at the WBC HW mess because those guys wanted to go down that path instead of one that led to Wlad).

Ward's approaching negotiations with a sense of entitlement and overestimating his own need in the division. If he doesn't want to move divisions, the next best thing he can do is collect the belts to ensure a steady supply of opponents that actually need him.

And quit holding the PPV card above Kovalev and Golovkin's heads when their ratings are as high or better than yours, Andre!

 

unifying is a futile goal though, because it's inevitable that the federations will break them up pretty quickly, when the champ hurts their feelings by not taking their chosen mandatory above that of a different federation

fans in the know should be discrediting belts because it's the lack of knowledge of casuals that enable promoters and fighters to raise their stock based on any belt that they can call a 'world title', when most of the time it clearly isn't

 

Fvck this guy, forget him. Drop him from the p4p rankings, stop paying attention to him and maybe then he'll start chasing fights.

 

:good
agreed
might be the wake up call he needs