Why did Andre Ward duck James degale to fight Paul smith?

Ward wanted none of Degale.

 

He knew DeGale's slickness and boxing ability would be too much for him

 

that's interesting....ggg wanted none of either of them...is now fighting a welterweight....ward is fighting a fellow top 5 p4p unbeaten lhw......kinda funny eh?

 

its funny....when eubank talks "broke down"(wink wink) and hearn said "hey hows about kell brook"...why didn't loeffler even at least say "well what about degale...is he interested? is he available? wed really like to fight a super mw".....but he didn't...he was like "oooooo yaaa...gimme that welterweight who hugged shawn porter all night long and beat kevin showbiz, donut dan and Frankie gavin"

 

Stop acting like you don't want to see that fight. You know the point is to fight Kovalev.

"Duck" is a strong word. He choose to move up in weight. And Paul Smith was a tune up at an unfamiliar weight after a long layoff. Why would he fight Degale as a tune up? Let's give James a little more credit here. Let that fight simmer. Let Ward conquer another division, and Degale keep winning. And I promise, Degale can move up and clean up the leftovers, like at 168. Lol.

The biggest fight in boxing (that is likely to happen) is Ward vs Kovalev. Degale doesn't fit into that picture right now.



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We're talking about Ward here why are you bringing up GGG? Talk about GGG in another thread I'm not interested in having another GGG debate.

 

DeGale was going to bash Ward up plain and simple, stylistically Ward doesn't like other boxers, he's not really even fought one. The closest to it that is a human and not a corpse is who, Allan Green? Says it all.

 

This is also the reason why Ward ducked Bute and Dirrel. Bute apparently didn't fight anybody and Dirrel was his "friend"... Lmfao.

 

u guys are great! don't change! don't ever change!

 

Legend he had like a 19 month lay off, he needed a tuneup (paul smith)

fight degale after 19 months lay off are you stupid??? (ring rust)

 

Both sides are accusing the other of double standards. To clear this up I'm going to ask Legend and Shockmaster the same question: Do you think Ward could have made 168?

I don't want Abel Sanchez or anyone else's take on it. Just yours. Go.

 

absolutely

he did 171 for the smith fight....why else would he? he let smith weigh in over the limit...smith weighed in at 176.....ward was keeping his weight halfway between 168-175 in case ggg wanted to fight....I think that was the only 168 fight he would have considered.....only one that interested him

 

Ward is a big fanny. Wet and flappy like khan's foo. A bit too labial for my liking.