Ward is the dirtiest fighter since Bernard Hopkins.

[Glamour Puss]

10-0. That **** looked like Hopkins vs Pavlik.

That fight killed my buzz. If "boxing" is heading in this direction, I might drop out of the sport.

Its unwatchable.

[pelonxsoldier28]

Ward fought ok in spots, but he's very sloppy and leaves himself wide open. Kessler fought flat I admit it, but the foul's were so blatant and so continuous that I can't believe the ref never took a point from Ward.

you're blond/blind, plain and simple. there is no controversy, kissler got schooled, you herd it from from his corner, "you need a knockout" , stop crying

[Toney Loc]

You're dead to me, Jack.
































oh yea, pay up. :grill:

[Glamour Puss]

You're dead to me, Jack.




oh yea, pay up. :grill:

Whatever dude. I don't care enough about either guy to argue about it, but that was a gross looking fight.

Ward is a knockout waiting to happen.

[azza21]

Kessler fought like he was on sleeping pills tonight.

I wasn't expecting him to look so flat.

Ward made Kessler look ****, he's been exposed. Kessler fights in straight lines and was found out, a quick, slick fighter is always going to cause him trouble.

On Ward he is phenonenal, looks like you yanks have something extremely talented on your hands. Going on that performance i could see him winning the whole thing.

[NachoMan]

Give it a rest, whiners. I saw exactly one foul worthy of complaining about. That would be the head butt that caused the fight-ending cut. Ward didn't fight anything close to a dirty fight. Clearly Kessler was not expecting Ward to fight aggressively. He was beaten to the punch from start to finish. He is a fairly slow-footed 1-2 puncher (mostly just a 1, really) who has little instinct to fight on the inside. Because of this he was outclassed. He was not beaten by any imaginary dirty fighting or, as some have suggested, a referee on the take. He may call himself the "Viking Warrior," but Mikkel really didn't show a lot of fire in the ring tonight. He was beaten by a better, much hungrier fighter tonight. It is unfortunate that he wasn't mature enough to admit that in his interview.

[DiLLiNGER]

this fight is gonna provoke some tension in this forum,its gonna be like the 92 riots in LA heheh.ward won story finished.

[Glamour Puss]

Give it a rest, whiners. I saw exactly one foul worthy of complaining about. That would be the head butt that caused the fight-ending cut. Ward didn't fight anything close to a dirty fight. Clearly Kessler was not expecting Ward to fight aggressively. He was beaten to the punch from start to finish. He is a fairly slow-footed 1-2 puncher (mostly just a 1, really) who has little instinct to fight on the inside. Because of this he was outclassed. He was not beaten by any imaginary dirty fighting or, as some have suggested, a referee on the take. He may call himself the "Viking Warrior," but Mikkel really didn't show a lot of fire in the ring tonight. He was beaten by a better, much hungrier fighter tonight. It is unfortunate that he wasn't mature enough to admit that in his interview.

Agreed. Kessler fought like he thought he was gonna spar or something.

this fight is gonna provoke some tension in this forum,its gonna be like the 92 riots in LA heheh.ward won story finished.

Like I said before, I don't care about either guy that much, but the fight was frustrating to watch the way it was handled.

[BEEHOP]

What a terrible display by Ward of holding and hitting blatantly to the back of the head and the kidneys and low blows and the slack jawed bought and paid for ref just standing there watching.

Ward also had his left out and held it in front of Kessler's head and was only warned 2x even though he did it all night long.

And of course you all saw Ward running in w/ his head all night long trying to cut Kessler.

I knew this fight was gonna go off like this which is why I wasn't excited about it at all. This new American boxing style that has been spawned off by Mayweather of running, holding, and fouling is the worst thing in boxing currently.

Everytime Ward got in close he held and cheated and the ref's let him get away with it.

Having said all that Kessler came out extremely flat and didn't do anything to combat Ward and his foul filled style.

What a disgraceful display by Ward. Over time, boxing fans will speak with their wallet and they'll demand that this spoiling, foul filled style will be eradicated from the sport.

If fighters like Ward are allowed to get away with this, boxing will see its demise.

All this complaining but I'm sure you didn't complain about Froch who was FAR more dirty than Ward tonight.

[Pullcounter]

ward's handspeed and footspeed is too much for kessler, but the headbutts and hold-n-hit style kept kessler uncomfortable... ward did a great bhop impersonation