Not to mention that had Ward not retired, he'd have been ordered to face Badou Jack next, not Bivol. Ward had the Super belt, Jack had the Regular belt, Bivol had the Interim belt.
Ward retired which elevated Jack to WBA champion. Jack was then ordered to face Bivol, but he instead chose to challenge WBC and lineal champion Adonis Stevenson. Bivol was thus launched from WBA tertiary champion to primary champion without a fight.
Yeah Bivol wasn’t really on the radar back in 2017. You could see he was a talented contender but he still had to prove himself at that point.
ward won super six then blew all the momentum by going 5 years of fighting bums and a drained chad dawson. then gets a gift win and a ball punch win with kovalev and retires young. now tells us how great he was and how hed beat everyone every time he announces fights. meanwhile beterbiev is the same age as him and still wrecking everyone.
To put in perspective how big ward's duck was when retiring,, ,he retired at 33 the same age Bivol is now. what if Bivol told everyone "i have nothing left to prove" and retired at 33.
Retiring is not ducking. That's a very ridiculous way to look at retiring.
Ward was a two division champion beating the number one fighters in each division. When Bivol does that maybe then you can make a comparison.
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