Looks like Ward's people picked their opponent better this time

[masterdirector]

I hate it when any new guys, even guys I don't like, come in and people jump all over them for fighting bums. Of course they're going to fight bums for a while. If even their first 20 fights are bums, I don't hold that against them. After about 20 though, they need to really start stepping up the competition. Probably less than 20 these days, but 20 is still fine.

Give Ward time. Of course they're going to pick opponents for him. Why feed your fighter to a guy that has more experience and would probably beat your fighter right now? Especially if your fighter, given experience, could probably beat that guy.

This topic comes off as criticism to Ward, maybe it isn't meant that way, but it seems so.

Now, if Ward is still fighting this calibur opponent in a year or two, yeah, I'll be right along with anybody else.

[Bombardier]

Most fighter don't get this much attention from day 1. You might see their early fights but as undercards on FNF or something. Thing is The Best Damn Sport Show is using him as a feature, even if he's the undercard fight. So people are expecting his opposition to be higher quality than it should be at this point.

Hats off to RJJ for getting his man so much airtime this early on. It's an easy sell with Olympic hero Ward, of course, but since he's not that experienced as a promoter it's still impressive.

[masterdirector]

Whatever. The 2000 Olypians and 96 Olympians got plenty of exposure themselves, 92 Olympians, etc. Olympians get more exposure. Ward hasn't received anywhere near the exposure that the 2000 Olypians got. Damn, I still refer to half of them as "the olympians." Like Diaz, Bojado, Vinson, Abduallaev, etc. Amazing that they debuted 4 or so years ago now. Doesn't seem that long.

Give Ward time. Some are acting like they wanna see him taking on ****ing Ruben Williams, Marcus Beyer, Echols, etc. He hasn't been pro even a year yet, damn, give him time.