why didn't ward took the bute fight?

scared. now saves face, since helost twice since. it'd still be better than who he fights next, odds are.

 

But Ward was right, Bute was not proven at the top level and when he did step up he took a vicious, one-sided beating. Had Bute beat Froch then I'm sure the Ward fight would have happened.

 

take*

 

The real bad is not take Kovalev fight then fight RODRIGUEZ!!!!

 

Bute was a hype job who has been exposed, the game is up, get over it.

 

I'm a Ward fan but even I'm utterly bemused by the way Ward has conducted his career.

After beating Froch he said he wanted to take some time off, but for some reason he expected the entire division to do the same while he was taking a holiday. He said Bute was unproven and they needed to build the fight up for a later date. Bute signs to fight Froch to prove himself and hopefully by beating Ward's latest opponent build up a potential match up and then Ward complains about Bute signing to fight Froch and not him. Bute simply did what Ward asked of him.

The Bute fight was not going to get any bigger than it was at the time. Ward had just won the super 6, Bute was undefeated, had just beaten Glen Johnson and was the only highly ranked super middle not included in the super 6.

I personally don't think it was an outright duck but Ward for all is ring smarts is absolutely clueless when it comes to managing his own career. He blew the momentum he got when winning the super 6 by not fighting for 9 months and allowing the biggest fight available to him slip by, beats Dawson only to be injured and out for 14 months, comes back again then stalls his career with promotional disputes. Mind boggling he's mastered the art of career suicide.

 

While not overly proven, Bute had decent top ten wins over Bika (who Ward fought,) and Andrade, Bute was rated top 5 Super middleweight and would have been seen a good win at the time for Ward as many rated Bute highly, also would have been a career high payday for Ward.

 

I agree, whilst Ward was correct in what he said about Bute being unproven, he did miss a trick by not fighting him before Froch destroyed him as it would have been an easy win and I wouldn't be surprised is Ward even got the stoppage.

 

its not irrelevant at all
bute's name was only 'in the mix' at SMW because people gave too much value to him having 'a belt' and not enough value to who he fought

he stepped up once - once - and was destroyed

just because a fighter has 'a belt' and an impressively padded record, isn't an excuse for supposedly 'educated fans' to defend his complete lack of pedigree

let the uninformed fan wave their flags and support the bute's and sturm's of this world, because regulars on this forum should know better than to promote them when they haven't achieved diddly

 

Maybe your right but outside of Froch, Kessler and Dawson, Bute was atleast as accomplished as Bika, Green, Rodriguez and possibly a better win at 168 lbs than Abraham.( Supermiddle weight clearly wasn't Abraham best weight.).

 

true, but since bute put himself in the position of 'contender' by taking the path of least resistance (not taking part in the super six, which essentially determined who would succeed calzaghe, and not having fought one of it's premier players), a fight against froch (or Kessler) first seemed appropriate in order to give his challenge credibility

 

I would guess that Bute's more impressive performances against common opponents(Bika,Miranda) had more to do with Ward not wanting that fight than anything.
Also, Ward would've most likely had to travel to a foreign country.:rofl