Why Is Ward Picking On Smaller Fighters?

You are a fanatical Wardo who feels GGG will not do anything against him and that he has stamina issues.

Timo Hoffman was 22-0 when Vitaly fought him. That is not a tune up! However, Paul Smith =Tune up! Ward's inactrivity was not even due to injury yet he is taking it far easier than Vitaly did.

 

I think almost 85-90% of the league went 3-3, nothing to be ashamed of.

CST went 2-4 :yep

It's just one of those weekends when everything that could go wrong, went wrong. :yep

 

I am a fanatical Wardo? GGG is my favorite active boxer! But yes, I'm realistic and don't think GGG will beat him. I think he will be beaten comfortably in a 9-3, maybe 8-4, type fight by a very good, very strong SMW. I also think Ward will lose to Kovalev either by a similar score or by stoppage. You're barking up the wrong tree. Some of us are just mature enough to make a pick objectively.

Get out of town. Smith is higher caliber than Hoffman. 22-0 is soooo significant because all undefeated records are created equal, right? atsch Smith just gave AA a hell of a fight 2 bouts ago. Hoffman was the definition of European level and the Vitali fight was his first EVER bout above domestic level. He was completely out of his league at the world level. Vitali was the 8th man he'd faced in his whole career with a winning record. The guy was beaten by Sprott his next fight after Vitali for god's sakes...

At least Smith has been mixing it up with world level fighters for a good long while...

 

Cheers, mate!

It was like one bomb dropping after another this weekend!

 

All very fair points and apparently I was "barking up the wrong tree". That was a mistake on my part. However, I stand by my initial statement that Vitaly, after a four year layoff and multiple surgeries came back and took his old title without any tune up. That alone trumps any assumed prior tune ups real or otherwise he may or may not have engaged in.

I also feel strongly that a fighter of Ward's calibre has an obligation to not return at a catchweight against an opponent of Smiths ability.

 

Glass shards, all over the floor :nod

No one escaped unscathed (Those who picked everything). :nod

 

Cheers for the level-headedness! :good No one ever act that way on here

Yep, what Vitali did in taking the Peter fight was f*cking badass! Not many during my lifetime that rival it. A few that spring to mind that are in the same league...

SRL vs Hagler
Foreman vs Moorer
Holmes vs Tyson (f*cking mentalist at 39 years old and 2 years away from the ring )

I don't mind Ward taking a tuneup because I really can't think of a fighter during my lifetime who hasn't taken a tune up at one point or another. It's the catch weight that bugs me. I know Hunter wants him to not have any struggles trying to make weight in his comeback bout but it still bugs me tremendously as all catch weights tend to.

 

TS does realize that 172 is 4 pounds up from where Ward has spent his whole career, right?

Not that Smith is a bigger fighter than Ward, but i wouldn't say he's smaller. And Ward's previous opponent, E-Rod looked way bigger than him in there.

 

I can see scratches..
http://b.smimg.net/13/21/300x225/carl-froch_2.jpg

 

Pretty sure I read that Rodriguez got in the ring at 190

 

That's after the second Kessler fight... atsch

 

Smith's definitely smaller. Former MW and not a big SMW at all. But E-rod was massive.