Tony Bellew and Andre Ward in talks

Yes he did. Career defining fights! Bellew fight is an easy moneygrab nothing else...

 

Makabu who beat old man Glen Johnson and who??

 

please you know most of those official rankings are useless as if bellow is the real #3 cruiserweight come on... smh

 

Daring to be great......within reason

 

Bellew will have to fight SOB in SOB's home town, with SOB's personal referee, judges and boxing commisson, watch and see..................

 

Nah I think Ward actually wants to travel to the UK. I don't think Bellew is good enough to warrant any of those things.

 

everyone knows bellew is a scrub who lost to stevenson and drew with cleverly. hardly daring to be great.

 

Bellew is a joke, but he will still have to agree to take a dive, even though SOB's personal referee, judges and boxing commission will be there to protect SOB, just in case. SOB will not have to take a drug test either.........

 

Everybody wants a piece of Baloo these days.

 

Moving up 25 pounds to fight the Cruiserweight champ isn't daring to be great? The ****?

 

If you're having any confusion check out these posts.

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...dre-ward-in-talks.589661/page-2#post-18642600

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...dre-ward-in-talks.589661/page-5#post-18642788

 

"But it's not a huge risk or an important legacy defining fight for Ward, it's simply a low risk-high reward payday."

I just don't agree that fighting a champion 25 pounds above your weight class is low risk-high reward. He's daring to be great.

 

It's all in post #18 and #62. Not going to repeat myself.

 

I read it. I just think you're being a hater if you don't think that someone moving up 25 pounds to fight the champion in that weight class isn't "daring to be great".

 

Yeah, jumping up in weight to fight a guy who spent most of his career fight at 175...

Risk-reward and financial gain are being considered here first and foremost, there aren't anymore viable big money fights left at LHW. Bellew represents the least risk at CW-HW(as far as the bigger fights are concerned) but A LOT of reward. As said in the posts I referenced to you - taking on Usyk, Gassiev, Briedis, Joshua, Wilder, or Parker would be "daring to be great" If you aren't a complete simpleton of a biased fanboy clinging to Wards jockstrap then this should be pretty easy to see. Not going to explain it any further than this, I broke it down multiple times in this thread. For the record I don't have any issues with this fight, just calling it how it is.