Ward Should Have Accepted The 50/50 @ 164.

Looking back Ward should have done many things differently...but he's his biggest enemy.
He's done with 168 and best thing he can do now is to fight Barrera, a legit good 175er who's been calling him out.

 

we could say the same thing about ward at 160..all of golovkin's opponents react to every last one of his landed punches. golovkin is the much much much much much much much much much much much harder puncher. stop fooling yourself

 

-ward can't even sell out his home town stadium
-golovkin is a bigger draw than ward

 

and yet two of those wins are still way ahead of any win bumluvscans has lol

 

Considering Ward is making 2 million a fight when on the rare occasion he does step into the ring accepting the 50/50 split wouldn't have likely made him much more money if at all plus he'd be weight drained. It simply wasn't a viable option, why take a risky fight with a handicap for so little gain if any.

If there was a fight he should have bent over backwards for it was the rematch with Froch. That would have made him millions had he agreed to fight in the UK at the City ground. He could have forced a larger share of the purse despite his low market appeal being as Froch was his mandatory challenger and that he won the first fight and was agreeing to fight on Froch's turf. He'd have made far more money than any proposed fight with Golovkin and clearly proved himself number 1 at 168lbs once again and regained much of the lost prestige due to his inactivity.

 

ya he could have gone to the uk to fight froch....but as I recall froch was pretty wishy washy about wanting that at all himself...didn't he say at one point there was no point really? or was he talking about a rematch in general?

after seeing what happened to dirrell I don't blame andre for not wanting to go over there....even if his payday was around 8-10 mil it still is a big risk going over there to outbox someone and get hosed

 

IMO it would have been a mistake for Ward part. He would have got beaten by Golovkin. At 168 it would have been a good move and he would have been favorite. But like we already know, he has had problems to dehydrate down to 168 - He is LHW.

 

Paul Smith was completly drained at 172:deal

 

Well it was the best tournament at the time ..

 

If he can't do 168 he can't do 164

I don't expect GGG to drop to 155 for Canelo if he doesn't feel he can operate at that weight; I apply that to all fighters, even if I don't like them

 

Will you claim Golovkin knocked out a drained Ward?

 

I think the thread should read "golovkins fans need to accept they wanted no part of an andre ward fight"....

 

alex...ggg isn't knocking ward out....at 168...164...160...whatever weight that would not happen....