Willie Monroe vs. Andre Ward

If this had of been before the Golovkin fight, you could possibly be right in thinking it would be a good close fight, but Munroe has just suffered a bad loss and often fighters are not the same after a loss.
Neither are massive punchers and both have skills so pre - Golovkin, Munroe could have made a good arguement.
I would have slightly favoured Ward, due to his natural size advantage and think Ward would be physically stronger, but guess that Munroes movements would keep him in it.
Ward close on points before Munroes loss to Golovkin and Ward wider on points after Munroes loss

 

I seem to recall having Boone ahead with the KD

 

Bailey, keep doing what you have done so far here. One of the best sense of humor on ESB man.:thumbsup

 

Greetings MaliBua.

It was a tough fight where Boone changed style and put on a clinic from round 4 onwards, forcing Ward to go heavily on the backfoot and run. Ward may use a different style now, where he would hold more, but Boone seemed to have the answers :bbb
The KD seemed to put Ward on wobbly legs. Thats a 10/8 round for round 4 and 5 and 6 he ran Ward around the ring in my opinion, which is the best on ESB

 

Log off you dumb f4ck. I mean really ward fought Boone when it was 2005 10 years ago and it was ward 7th pro fight lololol.

 

When Monroe fought Boone, Boone already had 17 losses while when ward fought boone, it was 7th pro fight and boone was 6-2. Most ppl here are re****ed.

 

Why do you think so many on here say a loss doesnt mean a thing? I think it does.
Look at how Ward like Munroe hasnt beaten a top undefeated fighter and how either havent beaten a top prime fighter.
Ward hasnt shown interest in facing boxer movers and Munroe is a boxer mover.
Munroe may not be the same after his loss to GGG. Before that loss it may have been more interesting, but I think Wards natural size and holding style would win him a decision where Munroe is in the fight but losing

 

Lol.

A green Ward with no title fights, whose best win before entering the s6 tournament was a shot bloated Edison Miranda gave Kessler(the tournament favorite) the beating of his life time. It was so bad that he took his belt, his pride, and had legions of his fans to this day crying over that masterclass. :smoke

 

Thats the point. You had to site Kessler, which is Wards best win, and that was over an unwell, past best, rusty, double vision suffering fighter who had already been beaten by the old end of career previous champ. Thats really it, and you sited it atsch.
That highlighted to me there how SMW was not at a strong point.

Oddly it was Kessler who did alot to keep the S6 interesting as he beat Froch, and took his title. Had Kessler not vacted that belt, I doubt the S6 would have been as interesting if it wasnt a unification at the end, because otherwise it would have been Froch coming off a poor performance over a faded SMW journeyman.

Anyway, what top undefeated fighter has Ward beaten? Wait for it...

 

A green, untested, unknown Ward with no title fights beat a prime Kessler who was the super six favorite. After getting embarrassed by Ward, Kessler went on to beat Carl "The Legend" Froch, the best fighter in his resume. :smoke

You can't argue with facts, this is what happened.

After this green Ward dominated the tournament favorite, he went on to completely dominate the Super Middleweight division, something that took old slappy 10 years to do, and Ward did this at 28 years of age. Now after promotional disputes and a 2 year lay off, the great Andre Ward will continue his rise to greatness, with Kovalev, Stevenson and Beiterbiev in the horizon.. :yep

 

It wasn't even the worst refereeing in the s6 tournament. Did you not see Dirrell vs The Legend's fight?

 

Ok, what clowns voted for Monroe?

 

Checkmate

 

Do you mean when he fought Froch? Yes Dirrell did get away with alot of holding