Andre Ward vs Oleksandr Gvozdyk

Stats for Ward vs Barera:
"For the fight, CompuBox had Ward landing 166 of 463 punches (36%), a very Ward-like pace overall. Barrera was busier, throwing 722 punches, but landed just 111, for a paltry 15% connect rate."

Check with the above - would you claim Ward gets hit a lot?

 

If you need to be close to Ward/Mayweather to avoid being called "robotic", 99.9% of fighters are robotic. That's setting the bar far too high, few fighters can compare in terms of adaptability to Ward or Mayweather. We haven't seen Gvozdyk in with an opponent he needs to adapt to either, so it's a bit early to say.

I'm a huge fan of David Benavidez but I don't think he could do that. He will win a world title next fight, but let's see whether he can beat Ramirez, DeGale and/or the WBSS winner...

 

Since Mayweather came into the discussion, let me remind you that the last guy to beat Floyd, actually looks quite a bit like Gvozdyk...

 

If the fight is in the US with Tony Weeks or Robert Byrd as ref, then Ward by UD. Anywhere else
on earth then 'the nail' by KO, and not in the nuts either