Fair point. I should have better explained that what I was thinking was if Hopkins had been the same world level amateur that Ward was, he would...
It can be argued that the two Dirrells, and possibly even Ward aren't in their prime yet. But in two years, they certainly will be. By then, the...
Fighter of the Year should go to the fighter who accomplishes the most and the most impressively in any given calendar year. In that case, I think...
This was a fight Ward was actually REALLY keen for a couple of years ago. He was talking up the idea of a superfight between two undefeated...
Calzaghe just barely beat Hopkins, and did so almost entirely because Hopkins just didn't have the stamina at his age to continue to keep up the...
I'm not sure about that. Pascal ran the same gameplan the entire fight, and Dawson didn't finally start doing something about it until the last...
True. The rule is EFFECTIVE aggression, not simply aggression. Is it truly effective if all of your coming forward and wild swinging simply...
it may have been the stronger division man-for-man back then, but it also may as well have been two divisions - SMW-UK and SMW-US. People rarely...
Ward had a little bit of trouble with the outside game of Froch the first round. Dawson's outside game is much more polished, and he's much faster...
Looking at the list of robberies and near robberies on the scorecards, it seems more than homecooking, they have one thing in common - the...
I was wondering when this was going to start. On message boards, whenever there's a big win, the hype train starts where people overreact to...
It's sounds like you're actually more upset at people on the boxing boards than Ward himself, since you're converging your gripes about both of...
I can understand Ward not wanting to fight Bute at all until Bute proves himself against S6-level opposition. I can - sorta - understand not...
Most people had him winning two of the last three rounds, and three of the last four. Including two of the three judges. You didn't see...
I think Ward, along with some of the other S6 contestants interviewed recently, are annoyed by Bute, which would explain the attitude you saw. In...
