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Clearly Ward and his team are not confident of moving up to 175 and facing Kovalev. Lets take a look at the facts:
Ward has no good opponents at 168- he came in at 172 in his last fight.
He continues to call out a 160lber who has a lineal title in his division to go after
He hasn't fought a good opponent in years
Kovalev has 3 titles and has been calling Ward out for some time now
Ward and his teams responses:
http://www.boxingscene.com/andre-war...en-what--78770
(Hmmm so Ward would be willing to move up for a PPV fight but NOT fight Kovalev because it's not PPV, but Golovkin gets crucified because he would move up for Chavez Jr and Froch but not the irrelevant BET fighter Ward?)
"Would you fight Kovalev?"
" I fought two of the best punchers in the world. Edison Miranda. Arthur Abraham. He got bricks in his glove. (keep in mind he also said Kovalev is just a media darling, yet now he has 3 titles and is clearly past the "media hype" stage. What gives, Andre? Gets asked about Kovalev, starts talking about Alan Green.
He fought two power punchers 5 years ago so he shouldn't have to fight one more in Kovalev doe
Now here's the key thing: Golovkin has unfinished business at 160. He can unify with Lemieux but the big one is he's waiting on a fight with the lineal champion Cotto/Canelo... A fight with Canelo has NO barriers. That's an HBO PPV fight. So why would move up to 168 fight the best SMW (a P4P fighter) in the world, then go back down and potentially lose out on that superfight? In fact he even said he WOULD take the fight and say f**k it- at 164. That's a fair enough trade off for the risk he would take in giving up his 160lb championship fight options.
NOW, lets look at Wards situation. 168 is a complete crock of ****, he has absolutely NO ELITE fighters to fight there. He just fought Edwin Rodriguez and Paul Smith. So what is he waiting for? He's just waiting around at 168 and content with fighting journeyman the rest of his career? Golovkin offered him a big fight at 164- he says nope, "I'm a SMW" (Keep in mind he said he would move down to 160 for Floyd Mayweather). So what's the next logical step? Move up to 175 and fight another P4P fighter/3 titlist champion......... Oh wait- Ward never fought at that weight, who knows how his body will react, etc. the SAME exact things are going on yet everybody on here is hanging on GGG for some reason.
Literally the same exact situations but NO ONE is calling out Ward who is calling out GGG- in fact this actually looks worse on Ward, due to the actual situations and each fighters circumstance that I mentioned above.
So what's with the Hypocrisy? It must come to the fact that people can't handle the fame and star treatment GGG is getting so they desperately want him to lose, with tunnel vision and fire in their eyes ignoring everything else that's going on, or the Ward situation by just locking into GGG and talking about nothing else.
Ward has no good opponents at 168- he came in at 172 in his last fight.
He continues to call out a 160lber who has a lineal title in his division to go after
He hasn't fought a good opponent in years
Kovalev has 3 titles and has been calling Ward out for some time now
Ward and his teams responses:
http://www.boxingscene.com/andre-war...en-what--78770
(Hmmm so Ward would be willing to move up for a PPV fight but NOT fight Kovalev because it's not PPV, but Golovkin gets crucified because he would move up for Chavez Jr and Froch but not the irrelevant BET fighter Ward?)
"Would you fight Kovalev?"
" I fought two of the best punchers in the world. Edison Miranda. Arthur Abraham. He got bricks in his glove. (keep in mind he also said Kovalev is just a media darling, yet now he has 3 titles and is clearly past the "media hype" stage. What gives, Andre? Gets asked about Kovalev, starts talking about Alan Green.
He fought two power punchers 5 years ago so he shouldn't have to fight one more in Kovalev doe
Now here's the key thing: Golovkin has unfinished business at 160. He can unify with Lemieux but the big one is he's waiting on a fight with the lineal champion Cotto/Canelo... A fight with Canelo has NO barriers. That's an HBO PPV fight. So why would move up to 168 fight the best SMW (a P4P fighter) in the world, then go back down and potentially lose out on that superfight? In fact he even said he WOULD take the fight and say f**k it- at 164. That's a fair enough trade off for the risk he would take in giving up his 160lb championship fight options.
NOW, lets look at Wards situation. 168 is a complete crock of ****, he has absolutely NO ELITE fighters to fight there. He just fought Edwin Rodriguez and Paul Smith. So what is he waiting for? He's just waiting around at 168 and content with fighting journeyman the rest of his career? Golovkin offered him a big fight at 164- he says nope, "I'm a SMW" (Keep in mind he said he would move down to 160 for Floyd Mayweather). So what's the next logical step? Move up to 175 and fight another P4P fighter/3 titlist champion......... Oh wait- Ward never fought at that weight, who knows how his body will react, etc. the SAME exact things are going on yet everybody on here is hanging on GGG for some reason.
Literally the same exact situations but NO ONE is calling out Ward who is calling out GGG- in fact this actually looks worse on Ward, due to the actual situations and each fighters circumstance that I mentioned above.
So what's with the Hypocrisy? It must come to the fact that people can't handle the fame and star treatment GGG is getting so they desperately want him to lose, with tunnel vision and fire in their eyes ignoring everything else that's going on, or the Ward situation by just locking into GGG and talking about nothing else.
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