First of all he recognizes he is B-side against Froch and is willing to take B-side terms. Unlike Ward Then he does something that Ward refused to in the Super Six- travel to Andre Dirrell's back garden to battle him. Tomorrow he is doing what Ward refused to do after the Super Six- fight Bute in his back garden. He also is willing to drop in weight to fight the The Kazakhstani nightmare Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin: [url]http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/exclusive-james-degale-would-drop-weight-to-fight-gennady-golovkin/[/url] And I can assure of this 100%. DeGale is willing to take one thing that Ward is not: THE TEST. :nod
I bet a year from now we are also talking about DeGale's willingness to fight Kovalev after Ward's retirement
Well I agree with your post somewhat. All those things are true except Ward is one thing that DeGale is not.....humble as to his opponents. Ward was afraid of Bute and refused to take the risk. Ward is afraid of GGG, and similarly waited on GGG to sign v Lemiuex before countering the K2 offer of 164 50/50 and the proposals of purse/split irt weight differneces. DeGale does seem more willing to compromise to make big fights, but he doing something Ward would NEVER do irt Bute, and that is overlook him.
I wouldn't completely write off Chunky in that. I'd pick Kovalev but DeGale is a far tougher fight than Hopkins or Pascal at this stage
Is Degale doing the year round random testing. If so, is it voluntary? All fighters who proclaim to be great or sons of god should take the test
Good point. Most likely his reason for refusing to travel and turning down EROD and GGGs demands for VADA/WADA TIE testing. :think
I went thru the whole FIght Hype interview with Andre Ward. First let me tell you that I work with people and am very good figuring out what a persons intentions are by listening to them. I cant get any more in depth than that regarding my job. Ok, Andre Ward is a liar. Strike that, he is being untruthful. The man feels like he is entitled to millions and feels he has put enough work into the sport to be deserving of it. More soon.
Also he cant seem to get thru a subject without referencing Bernard Hopkins, Roy Jones and Floyd Mayweather junior in some way or another. If anybody can answer why he does this I will award some generosity? More coming soon!
I doubt highly he is using steroids fellas. Trash the man all you want but lets have some moral standard. No PED use, yet!!
His license is with the BBBoC which means, yes, he is subjected to year round testing even outside of competition :nod