I can enjoy boxers that arent brawlers, but I just cant enjoy watching ward's holding

[junior gong]

The funny thing about this is everyone thats complaining are GGG fans and they are gonna hate on Ward because they know he will beat GGG the same way. They arent boxing fans they are brawling fans and they believe you should let the opponent tee off on you so they can judge how "TOUGH" you are.
If he's doing something illegal the ref can take a point but he's boxing within the rules and WINNING. These ladies look at boxing according to who they want to win not with an unbiased eye. They want people to end up in the hospital like the heavyweight from a couple of weeks ago who's life is still on the line.

What a crock of ****.

[teddycanyon]

The funny thing about this is everyone thats complaining are GGG fans and they are gonna hate on Ward because they know he will beat GGG the same way. They arent boxing fans they are brawling fans and they believe you should let the opponent tee off on you so they can judge how "TOUGH" you are.
If he's doing something illegal the ref can take a point but he's boxing within the rules and WINNING. These ladies look at boxing according to who they want to win not with an unbiased eye. They want people to end up in the hospital like the heavyweight from a couple of weeks ago who's life is still on the line.

how could you call yourself a fan of the sport if you don't like Golovkin's style? I mean, seriously, the sport of boxing is a BLOOD SPORT, always has been always will be. There are things about the sweet science and the pure technical side of things to be admired but the fights that are legendary are your so-called "brawls". Without that element of excitement and volatile unpredictability there would be no sport. And if someone wants to **** on Ward for being in dull fights every time he steps in the ring, they are in their rights to do so because you probably can't point to a single person who looks at Ward's style and goes "this is the reason I love boxing". He's supremely talented but he consistently makes for sloppy one-sided fights.

[mathed]

That's a misconception there, people watch Hopkins well into his mid to late 40s and they quickly associate how he applied himself in the ring to Ward. Let me educate you, around Ward's age Hopkins was a better more accurate combination puncher, he didn't need to tie his opponent's arm the way Ward does, Hopkins' inside game was predominantly two handed which can't be said about Ward. His footwork was also better, B-Hop would have out boxed Rodriguez without needing to tie up as much as Ward did. It would have been something for the casuals.

Take Hops last fight as a prime example. He opponent didn't allow for him to use his "normal" tactics so he outboxed and outpunched his opponent. Hopkins is very capable of not using those tactics but they allow him to conserve his energy and strength for the later rounds.

[junior gong]

Its just so boring and bad, i mean you could say that rodriquez caused it, but ward has been fighting like this his whole career. He is clearly causing it a lot of the times. Its why Hopkins never truely became a ppv draw. its not a good style, floyd is way more entertaining than ward. He either needs to change his style, or develop a personality, because by the looks of that empty arena he clearly doesn't have a big fanbase

And isn't holding illegal any?

You dont know what your watching...its called 'slick' or 'easy work' or something.

[HanzGruber]

Edwin was doing 95% of the holding last night. This thread is dumb

[junior gong]

Edwin was doing 95% of the holding last night. This thread is dumb

Good one!

[daggum]

clamping your opponents arms and jumping into them with your shoulder like a football player are ways of being slick. ward's so slick he has to hold onto his opponents arm anytime they get close oh wait that makes no sense logically. if he was slick he would be able to get away from him without holding. maybe some fans are confusing slick with stuck? yet he's still got that shoulder jump! we all know its an old boxing move to completely jump int your advancing opponent with just your shoulder without even throwing a punch. real boxing!

[JDezi4]

What are the odds all these people hating on Ward's style are the same people asking for his head for not taking the special drug tests before the fight (and also not hardcore Froch and Kessler fans)??

It seems like the guys that can't stop talking about fighters post fight are the ones that were hating on them pre-fight

[ROSS CALIFORNIA]

Its just so boring and bad, i mean you could say that rodriquez caused it, but ward has been fighting like this his whole career. He is clearly causing it a lot of the times. Its why Hopkins never truely became a ppv draw. its not a good style, floyd is way more entertaining than ward. He either needs to change his style, or develop a personality, because by the looks of that empty arena he clearly doesn't have a big fanbase

And isn't holding illegal any?

This is ridiculous. Ward doesn't even hold that much. The guy did a great job last night. If there is a fighter that holds too much, its Wlad Klitschko. Laying on the dudes back and all. Now that's ridiculous.

[junior gong]

What are the odds all these people hating on Ward's style are the same people asking for his head for not taking the special drug tests before the fight (and also not hardcore Froch and Kessler fans)??

It seems like the guys that can't stop talking about fighters post fight are the ones that were hating on them pre-fight

You generally post a lot of ******ed stuff, but wtf was that? Hate, hater, haterz etc.