Super Six final had less than 500,000 viewers

The casual fan just wants to see blood-and-guts wars every time. But if you are a true fan of the sport you can appreciate an Andre Ward or a Pernell Whitaker even though they are not knockout artists. Wards style is just too boring and frustrating to look at. Floyd, Whitaker, and Bradley are all fighter I enjoy watching. Ward however, I think he gets away with too much dirty stuff, and hugging that make his fights boring.

The casual fan just wants to see blood-and-guts wars every time. But if you are a true fan of the sport you can appreciate an Andre Ward or a Pernell Whitaker even though they are not knockout artists.

Ward needs HBO....PERIOD. As for someone mentioning Brandon Rios got more views than Ward....if im not mistaken, he became pretty known in HBO 24/7 with Pac and Margs, especially with his antics making fun on Freddie.

I don't think Ward's boring. He's fast, he can be quite varied, he throws a decent number of punches with both hands. He's no Rocky but he's not Valuev either. Those viewing figures are just sad. I'm sure it will have done OK on Sky in the UK. I think the biggest issue in the US is the heavyweight division. The smaller guys need the glamour division to be a proper standard bearer for the sport, and it isn't right now. Damn that is very interesting point in the bold!!

I don't think Ward's boring. He's fast, he can be quite varied, he throws a decent number of punches with both hands. He's no Rocky but he's not Valuev either. Those viewing figures are just sad. I'm sure it will have done OK on Sky in the UK. I think the biggest issue in the US is the heavyweight division. The smaller guys need the glamour division to be a proper standard bearer for the sport, and it isn't right now.

James Kirkland has more of a chance at becoming a star, even me as a hardcore fan I don't get excited for Ward fights. I haven't even watched most of his last ones live to be honest, already know he's going to win a boring uneventful decision. hell of a fighter though, just guy has such a boring style to watch.

Ward isnt a star since his handlers do nothing to promote him. He needs to find the right people. An amazing fighter like this needs good people behind him. With that sleep inducing style, P.T. Barnum couldn't make this kid a star.

Ward will just go to HBO and become a star on that network. SHO doesn't build stars. Ward isnt a star since his handlers do nothing to promote him. He needs to find the right people. An amazing fighter like this needs good people behind him.

This was mentioned in max boxing radio. Kind of sad this is all it gets after all the hype. Because Ward Punch & Hug style is so Boring!! I got home & already rd 8, then I dont even bother to watch the replay! I'm cutting my HBO & SHO by the end of the month!! They need to find new exciting talent! Even Canelo's last fight were boring!

Thats very sad news! It was a big event! it was built really good by showtime! Now that andre ward is on his own with just his promoter and no super six hype it will even get worse for him! Most fans dont like to watch him box! No way they can built andre ward up as ppv fighter! let me tell you something man...ward is garbage...yeah he got skills, but his fights are horrific to watch...with that boring style he has, he's gotta start getting some ko's, tko's, or at least some knockdowns to get the general fan interested...right now i'd rather watch roy jones get ko'd...

Bute doesn't need that as.s-whipping. Why not?....so he can keep fighting b level fighters?......he needs to step up, and Ward need more limelight......and more important is a great stylistic fight....it needs to happen

i was at the fight and the crowd was just pathetic ive been to soooo many fights in ac and this was terribleee ward just cant sell

This is the funniest thing ever. I'll tell you why. A few years ago, the standard line on here about Mayweather was, 'If Floyd wasn't so dang arrogant, if he stopped being bad and was a more polite and upstanding guy, he'd be popular and get lots of props!' In fact, the poster javelin_fangs made a thread around this popular asseveration, posing the question, if it were true, why was an Olympic gold medallist and top prospect in Andre Ward generating so little buzz, fan acclaim and attention 3, 4 years deep into his pro career? Three years and a winning Super Six campaign later, Andre Ward is, relatively, pretty much still in that same spot. People on here are so full of sh*t, they squeak. :lol1: If Floyd has the nice persona he would be in a similar situation, a lot of people pays to see him lose, but hes more exiting than Ward tough, he is an a$$hole but he sell the fights like no one else.........Andre i think is genuinely friendly, have great personality (to much religion bs, but im ok with it) and great skills.......but if he wants more money and more fans he needs to change something.......or he will pass a a great fighter with a few dollars in his pockets and nothing more

Thats very sad news! It was a big event! it was built really good by showtime! Now that andre ward is on his own with just his promoter and no super six hype it will even get worse for him! Most fans dont like to watch him box! No way they can built andre ward up as ppv fighter!

:headbang::biggthump Ward might need Bute more than ppl would like to admit Yeah ! ! .......

U know what i ment.African americans,They need to suppport him better. NO! BOXING FANS NEED TO SUPPORT BOXERS BETTER IN GENERAL! What is with trying to SEPARATE FAN BASES? Oscar, Tyson, they was PPV Kings not because they was just supported by their own but because they was Supported by ALL PEOPLE especially Oscar who had Fans of ALL RACES...not just Mexicans...in fact he was HATED by his own for years especially after the Chavez fight

How about the fact that NOBODY believed Froch had a chance was Ward fighting himself? why are people bringing up race am I missing something? the biggest Draws in boxing are BLACK and Filipino...NOT Mexican or a Brit so I really don't get all this talk about who are Draws and who are not what was the Cotto vs Margarito PPV Numbers? What ever it was it wasn't close to Pacquiao or Mayweather Numbers

U know what i ment.African americans,They need to suppport him better. No I didn't know what you meant. Why African-Americans instead just Americans like I said? Andre Ward was not born in Africa therefore he is not African-American. Ward was born in America which makes him American. Ward is a black american just like Kelly Pavlik is a white american. Both just plain old Americans of different colors. By the way I am an American that went to the Ward vs. Froch fight! To support my fellow American.

Onechance WTF is up with you and this African sh!t? Andre Ward is not African he is american. Won a gold medal in the olympics representing his home country of america. So why would Africans need to show more support to Ward instead of just plain old Americans? Andre Ward is a black man that is from America. U know what i ment.African americans,They need to suppport him better.

This was mentioned in max boxing radio. Kind of sad this is all it gets after all the hype. maybe because it was on showtime instead of HBO? or the fact that boxing is not payed as much attention as it used to be or maybe not as many people knew about froch and ward as say the big names of nowadays like pac & floyd or k-brothers or cotto :damnit1: