Kessler Ward 2 Picking Up Steam

I think Ward has no reason to change a thing from last time.

What's unknown is what sort of a different game plan Montoya & Kessler will cook up for the rematch.

Whether that is a game plan the body of Kessler is even able to execute anymore, however willing the mind.

Whether those adjustments will be enough to confound Ward, or to offset his successful tactics from last time.

Whether, all other things being equal, a fight will break out with both men abandoning their game plan and reducing it to "who really wants it the most" - as happened both times Kessler met Froch (whose disposition, granted, lends itself to such things more than does Ward's - but if Kessler is able to negate and neutralize the stuff Ward did last time, and Ward is counting on his plan A working again without having brought a plan B - he might not have a choice but to get dragged into a dogfight the way he was against Bika, for instance).

The onus is on Kessler to bring a new look and deviate from the known. I think he will. How all the chips fall into place from there is what makes this so interesting.

 

:bart Have faith. They're, strange as it may be, the best option for each other at this point.

 

A fight against a guy who has decided to retire. Well, if that doesn't keep Ward relevant I don't know what will.

 

:nod

http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?t=513812

 

Good thing you weren't posting on forums back in '87 to throw a damper on Hagler vs. Leonard... :blood

 

Don't want this fight to happen, I really like both fighters and I suspect that Ward will actually hurt Kessler bad.

Kessler has an iron jaw but he's been slipping for a while now.

Ward's right shoulder is now fully repaired, which he that he'll be able to throw it with much more power. Call me crazy but I suspect Ward may stop Kessler here or hurt him bad.

I like Kessler a lot, he should ride off into the sunet.

 

Kessler has retired........................however, Ward would not do so well if he had to fight outside his hometown, without his personal referee, judges, boxing commission, etc. After all that Goosen did for Ward, Ward thanked Goosen by suing him, yet, it's SOB Ward, not SOG..............................Ward ran from Stevenson at 175 or 168, said Kovalev it too big for him, etc...........................I hope Ward stays retired.............

 

Amen to that,Farmy.:good

 

Get this fight signed and announced already
I will buy 5 tickets

 

This is hitting the nail on the head. Spot on observation, I think Ward is happy with the plaudits he has received in his pro career. He received advantages, he took those advantages. He was way overly appraised by a community lacking the success it was used to. Thus preserve the myth rather than step back in the ring and possibly expose it.

 

So what happened to this? Did all the steam evaporate in California drought?