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

I will ask you again. Why would he fight the "pin" at 168, when he hasn't fought at 168 in years? And he was coming off injuries. That's not smart. He knew he was moving up, so he picked a tuneup (PS) at a higher weight to get some rounds in. There is nothing wrong with that. He didn't owe Degale a fight.

It's clear he plans to stay at 175. Now, if he doesn't fight Kovalev, except for a valid reason (injury, etc), I would call that a duck. Degale can move up or wait until Ward handles business at LHW. It's actually a more lucrative fight for Degale, if Ward takes over LHW. All he needs to do is remain the "pin" at 168.

This whole "he ducked Degale" sh!t is just an agenda by you Ward haters, to deflect from the fact that Ward is doing something few people are doing right now...actually dare to be great.

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You didn't answer my question. That is twice now that you ducked it. Your agenda is obvious. Please find another sport to watch. You clearly can't understand how big fights get built up. All of a sudden, fighters can't have tuneups after years outside the ring? FOH.

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Is Degale a "tuneup" fight, for any fighter coming off injuries with nearly 2 years of ring rust, and complications making weight? Answer that question or don't reply.

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See I agree with you, Ward was moving up, had no intention of making 168 again so can this "Golovkin didn't want Ward at 168" just stop because the time line is so far off and does not match up to what Ward and Hunter both said.

DeGale has said he wants Jack and then move up to 175 and wants Ward, we will see and we will see if Ward still makes November because I believe he won't.

Also Ward isn't "daring to be great" by fighting a man in his own weight class, he is just fighting the number 1 in his own division, if he was doing it at cruiserweight and giving away huge advantages then yes that's a huge risk and daring to be great but Kovalev is in his own weight class.

Every title challenger at every weight is "daring to be great" if that's the case.

 

why did ward weigh 171 for smith instead of 175?

 

You tell me, you have access to Wards email and seem to know more about Wards weight than Virgil Hunter :yep

 

go ahead and answer though...ill wait

why didn't ward weigh 175 for the smith fight?

why was his weight right between 168 and 175?

 

It's this Oscar rubbish "daring to be great" he started throwing this phrase around to sell a brittle jawed Khan Vs Canelo to the morons who bought it.

"Khan is daring to be great" is a nice little sound bite but the reality was Khan was being fed to a much bigger man, so after Khan got crumpled they gave Khan to pat on the head and said "Wow he dared to be great, no shame in that"

Now everybody is "daring to be great" it's the new buzz phrase.

 

He was out due to injury and the contractual dispute with Goosen. Those are the facts.

You just said he could of fought Degale straight away. Then you say the key was having a tuneup first. Which is it man? Get your story straight FFS.

He DID have a tuneup against Paul Smith with his sights set on 175 and Kovalev. That's a much bigger fight and better opportunity than Degale at 168, which he already cleaned out 3 or so years beforehand. Ward has nothing else to prove at 168.



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