Andre Ward vs. Ray Robinson

How about Ward vs Marciano at 185 instead???

 

But Ward lost the first time around.

 

Yep, Kovalev will forever be known as the first and only man to defeat Ward.

 

Ray is too small as awesome of a fighter he was

 

People die from heat stroke you know. Apparently it was just one of those days where its better to lose than to die.

 

No dude, he won the fight, it's been officially scored in the record books. And if there was any doubt it was put to rest a couple months later in the rematch

 

I agree that Robinson should have conserved his energy more effectively but you're looking at this in a very simplistic way.

 

Darnell Boone beat him in my opinion.

 

What happened after is irrelevant, its what happend on fight night. A boxer may only have one great fight left, and raised his game. The judges need to get it right. No bragging rights for corrupt wins.

 

Robinson was the greatest welterweight of all-time, it doesn`t matter if Ward could beat himat 175, I`m not sure Ward would have beaten Ray at 168 but he was proven at that weight while Ray wasn`t, P4P there`s no comparison.

 

Raheem,When someone robs a store its a crime, it doesn't change anything if you go in the store the next time and pay for an item. It doesn't make it better.

 

What weight?

 

No he did not. He won a unanimous decision. It was close but he won.

 

The people voting for SRR are the same people who thought Canelo could KO cruiserweights.

 

Poor analogy, noone was robbed. I will concede it was a very close fight, and had the judges scored for Kovalev by a round I wouldn't think it the end of the world.
But I thought the decision was well justified. Ward got up from a bad knockdown, got his bearings and fought with Kovalev on even or better terms from midpoint on.
Tbh the only reason I had it a close fight was because of the early knockdown, which Kovalev failed to capitalize on, and Ward recovered and fought back from.

I actually see a lot of parallels between Ward vs Kovalev and fury vs Wilder, in that both Fury and Ward got up from devastating KDs, refused to quit, kept fighting, and eventually began to dominate and even manhandle their opponents .

Anyone who can't appreciate what Ward did or tried to diminish it is either a Kovalev nutt hugger or a Ward hater. Your average, objective boxing fan lives for those kind of fights.