WesT yet again proving what a deluded, biased, uneducated ***** he is Like Lucian isn't fighting at home exclusively?
Why am I uneducated? Fighters fight for money.Bring more money and Bute will fight on the Moon so pricks like you would feel good. Your uninformed because if you knew something about what you're talking about you should have known that Bute-Andrade 2 was won by Golden Boy Promotions and they decided to fight in Canada, not Bute not Interbox, but Andrade's promoter GBP. Why?! Because there have the same fight as anywhere else but their efforts are rewarded better, they simply get a bigger paycheck. Idiot!!
Explain to me why was Bute negociating with Froch a fight in Nottingham then , The fight was almost done(Froch promoters words) Then the super six proposal appears. No more unification. Idiot!! Promoter Mick Hennessy is now set to bring Canada-based IBF champion Bute to Nottingham and said: Read more: [url]http://www.express.co.uk/othersport/view/102228/Froch-I-ll-be-a-unifying-forceFroch-I-ll-be-a-unifying-force#ixzz3eaVXDbdfh[/url]
Of course if you scratch the S6 altogether and make a new one, you can then make it work. But the fact is Showtime never even talk with Ibox about Bute in the S6.
I dont understand why people forget when it's convenient that professional boxing (as any other professional sports) have only one goal. That is to make money.
Andre Ward is a primadonna (= first lady). He needs to get his ass out of California and show he's a true champion.
The fight should absolutely be in Germany. Perhaps some neutral venue in Europe if Ward doesn't want to go to Germany, but Ward def doesn't deserve Oakland. Although I must say, Ward has never gotten a hometown decision or even a hometown scorecard. Never has Ward fighting in Oakland affected the fight after the bell rings.
Things are like this: Froch had 1 fight home 1 away 1 on neural ground Abraham had 1 fight home 1 away 1 on neutral ground Johnson had 1 fight so he doesn't really count For things to be fair Ward should have had 1A 1H and 1N but he had 2 fights Home and the 3rd was suppose to be at home to against Dirrell.Not only that but they give him 2 points bonus. The Kessler fight should've been in Denmark, and Dirrell fight on a neutral venue. But this fight against Abraham, He kind of earn it to be at home because his #1 seeded fighter in the tournament.
Ward deserved the wins vs Kessler and Bika but both fights were closer than the based Oakland judges saw it. (Ward- Bika 120-108 ) In the Kessler fight Ward should at least have be warned or taken a point by the referee for headbutting Kessler all night. Every fighter in the supersix won at home and if Ward gets all fights infront of his home crowd he get's a very big advantage.
Not surprising of course, but I think Ward should go to Germany. Yes, Germany, not a neutral Euro venue. Kessler was the champ, he fought in Cali. Froch was the champ, he fought in Denmark. Abraham had 3 points and 0 losses, he went and fought in Michigan. Ward's had 3 fights in his HOMETOWN. It's time to step out & defend that title like everyone else has, buddy.
If Ward doesn't leave his hometown he should be kicked out. Abraham will fight in Ward's country, but not in his hometown and who can argue with that?
I can't believe in that legion of people that were involved in organizing this thing there wasn't one head that had the idea that this business ought be decided on before the tournament.
TBH, this is less of a worry than the thought of Ward facing Froch/Johnson in Oakland. Finals should be on neutral soils. I was on the sidelines until the recent Ward Bika fight. I thought Ward would outbox Bika, but he actually outpointed him by being the dirtier fighter instead. I don't understand what's Ward's gain in all this. He's clearly the most talented individual out of the S6 turnament, so he should win away from home, plus it would net him some valuable experience. On the top of it, I don't think Bute or even the winner of Froch Johnson, would take a fight in Oakland, not after recent... events.