What was/is the bigger fight for Ward? Kovalev-Ward or Ward-Froch??

I wasn't heavy into boxing in 2011 so I wasn't able to see how big the Ward-Froch fight was. Ward-Froch was the culmination of the Super Six. But Kovalev-Ward sees the winner of the Super Six moving up a division to fight the best light-heavyweight in years. Both undefeated. My question is the same as the title. What fight is bigger, the Kovalev-Ward fight or the Ward-Froch fight? When I say 'bigger' I mean hype around the fight from boxing fans, amount of discussion on boxing forums from fans, media coverage (articles written online from news sites, video advertisements, etc.). I am so excited for this fight and I think it is the biggest fight of Ward's career but I wasn't into boxing as much when he fought Froch so I don't really know if it is in fact his biggest fight.

 

Yeah but I don't really think we'll ever know the 'views' for Kovalev-Ward since it'll be on PPV. You can count the views the week after when its played on regular HBO but by then most people will have already seen the fight so you can't really count them for comparison. How many buys do you think this fight does in the US?

 

Yea it difficult to compare the US and UK. They're PPV is only like 16.99 or something like that over there. So that's about $20 bucks over here. That's a deal. I bought Golovkin-Lemieux and it was like $55 or $60 for the standard definition one that I bought. I would have no problem paying $20 for PPV. What would be cool is if they offered PPV without having to have a cable and HBO subscription. That's 150-200 a month for cable subscription plus 15 or so for HBO subscription. And you need to have that to watch even regular HBO fights live. They need to get with the times and put regular fights live on HBO NOW like they air "live shows" (live as in the same time it airs for regular customers with cable). I got rid of cable and HBO in March cuz I couldn't afford to pay $200+ a month for just boxing. It sucks too cuz I would have paid for Crawford-Postol and I wanna pay for Kovalev-Ward but its not just the fight I would be paying for. If HBO offered PPV online I would gladly pay for it. I would even pay for regular HBO fights to see them live online with the rest of the world.