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By Jake Donovan - Even perfection isn’t good enough for Andre Ward.
Do a search of fighters who have went more than a decade without losing and see how they conduct themselves in and especially out of the ring. There are few exceptions on the humble side, with Ricardo Lopez immediately coming to mind but perhaps being one of the very few.
The last time Andre Ward’s name came on the losing side of a fight result was in 1996, when he was barely a teenager and only two years into his amateur career. He went on to become one of the most decorated fighters in recent U.S. amateur boxing history, complete with his capturing Olympic Gold as a light heavyweight in the 2004 Summer Games.
Ward and his handlers were able to parlay that success into an HBO-televised pro debut. While he didn’t exactly sprinted around the track in the months and years to follow, he’s remained perfect and – for now and the foreseeable future – the lone active American fighter to have won a gold medal.
Last November, he racked up his greatest pro achievement to date with a dominant win over Mikkel Kessler. The win came in Stage One of the Super Six World Boxing Classic, which continues this weekend when Ward (21-0, 13KO) returns to his Oakland hometown to take on Allan Green in the final bout of the Stage Two matchups (SHOWTIME, Saturday 10PM ET/PT). [Click Here To Read More]
Do a search of fighters who have went more than a decade without losing and see how they conduct themselves in and especially out of the ring. There are few exceptions on the humble side, with Ricardo Lopez immediately coming to mind but perhaps being one of the very few.
The last time Andre Ward’s name came on the losing side of a fight result was in 1996, when he was barely a teenager and only two years into his amateur career. He went on to become one of the most decorated fighters in recent U.S. amateur boxing history, complete with his capturing Olympic Gold as a light heavyweight in the 2004 Summer Games.
Ward and his handlers were able to parlay that success into an HBO-televised pro debut. While he didn’t exactly sprinted around the track in the months and years to follow, he’s remained perfect and – for now and the foreseeable future – the lone active American fighter to have won a gold medal.
Last November, he racked up his greatest pro achievement to date with a dominant win over Mikkel Kessler. The win came in Stage One of the Super Six World Boxing Classic, which continues this weekend when Ward (21-0, 13KO) returns to his Oakland hometown to take on Allan Green in the final bout of the Stage Two matchups (SHOWTIME, Saturday 10PM ET/PT). [Click Here To Read More]
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