By Edward Chaykovsky

Super middleweight champion Andre Ward (28-0, 15KOs) says the fans were hoodwinked by Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (33-0, 30KOs) and his team, promoter Tom Loeffler and trainer Abel Sanchez.

A few weeks ago, Loeffler denied that there were ever negotiations for a possible fight between the two sides. Ward claims a formal 50-50 offer was made, and he has proof by way of email, and says the offer was rejected in five minutes and he was told that 'maybe in 2017' the fight can happen.

“It’s not Triple G no more, it’s Little G. Little G turned down an official fight with us.... I don’t know, about a month ago – and now it's Little G. I just don’t talk about this stuff a lot. I'm enjoying my summer. The reality is, for all the talk, for all the websites that the trainer and promoter went off on, for all the radio, for all that they said - the proof is in the pudding," Ward told BBC Sport.

"I have an email right now that shows that we gave him what he wanted, we gave him 50-50, these are the terms, these are the conditions, and the promoter turned it down and said ‘maybe in 2017.’ So from now on it’s Little G.'

Ward is upset with Golovkin demanding that he come down to catch-weight of 164, while offered the full super middleweight limit of 168 to Carl Froch and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

Golovkin is back on October 17th in a unification bout against David Lemieux on HBO Pay-Per-View from New York's Madison Square Garden. There is talk that Ward may return on a date in November, possibly on the Miguel Cotto-Saul Alvarez HBO Pay-Per-view undercard.

"This it the thing. I'm a very respectful fighter and try not to get out of character and start talking crazy. If you really don't want to fight a fighter or its not a good style or not the right to do it - then say that. I have a problem with the trainer, who gets paid to say what he's supposed to say and the promoter gets paid to say those things. The truth is, they never wanted the fight and I've been saying that for two years," Ward told Fight Hub. 

"The reality is when we offered them the fight, and this is before we knew he had a pay-per-view coming up. This was like a week before, I didn't' know anything about it. He wanted 50-50 and I said give it to him. I'm not going to argue about ten percent, give it to him. My lawyer sent back 'they turned it down in five minutes.'"

"If the shoe was on the foot, and I said that I was going to 175 and I was not going to touch Kovalev - I'll fight this guy and that guy, but if I fight Kovalev he's got to come to 170 or 172 - can you imagine what the headlines would be? And if my manager and my promoter were talking like they talk, can you imagine what the headlines would be? I don't want to talk about the guy anymore, I wish nothing but the best, but I think they hoodwinked the fans and I don't think that's right."