Will Ward ever move up to 175?

Not according to his trainer Virgil Hunter who said he thinks he'll always be a SMW

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Don't forget that he's already ducked Degale, Degale signed the contract to fight him (in the US of course) and Ward pulled out.

And he gave up his WBC strap in order so that he wouldn't have to face his ''brother'' Anthony Dirrell.

'Let's start with Ward's next fight. The June 2 date in Oakland should work, but it won't be against Bute, who faces Carl Froch on May 26. Nor will it be against Anthony Dirrell, it would seem. Dirrell, the brother of the more famous Andre Dirrell, is Ward's WBC mandatory. But Ward says he's not interested in that fight and would just vacate his belt, even though he called it "a good matchup." He claims that the TV networks won't be interested, which seems bizarre given that Showtime televised Dirrell's eliminator win over Renan St-Juste in
December.'

"That's a good matchup," Ward told SI's Chris Mannix when asked about facing Dirrell. "But to be perfectly honest with you I don't have a lot of interest. I consider Anthony a good fighter, a brother. But the networks won't be interested."

And we all know the history regarding him and Anthony's bro Dre Dirrell, who Ward is even closer friends with than he is with Anthony, not wanting to fight each other and never harboring any intentions of doing so. People in the know, posters on here who trained in the Bay Area in Ward's gym, were posting that the fight was never going to happen long before it became apparent to the rest of us it wasn't and they were absolutely adamant about it too.

So who does that leave for him? And moreover who in god's name is actually worthy of a shot at His Holiness if lineal LHW champ Adonis and reigning IBF SMW champ were ''unworthy'' and ''would have to win some more big fights first'' or beat 1 or 2 A class fighters'' because ''they didn't have the track record to warrant a shot at him''? Ward's own words.

 

Another MW? atsch

How many is that now? Sergio, Golovkin, Truax, Rubio, shot former MW drunk Pavlik, Chavez Jr. who is in reality 2-2 above MW (1 loss via stoppage), or 0-1 when Ward was on bended knee begging to fight him, literally right after Chavez had lost his only fight above 160 - the robbery win against blown up MW journeyman Brian Vera - and was 0-2 in his last 2 fights (including the Vera robbery which nobody thought Chavez won) :rofl