i think he was more concerned with greens power and was more into the smothering fighting style which smothered quite a bit of his own punches and really wasn't able to set green up for anything really big, more of a grinding and wearing green down.
johnson was taking any and everything opening possible, inside and outside, and wasn't letting green get set and wasn't leaving himself open by standing and trading. not that ward was, but ward, smothered and grappled more, had he fought more with an offensive mind and combinations, ward would've had green out of there, ward was more focused on not giving green anything to work with, which he did well but didn't leave us anything exciting...
Totally agree with that, its how he fought Miranda as well. Hes too concerned about getting hit, I mean if hes so good though just box thats what I think everytime I see him fight and his fans praise his sloppy performance..
I have to respectfully disagree with most of you. The theory of A>B>C therefore C >A has been disproved too many times to mention. Someone here earlier said styles make fights...I agree.
Personally I think Green went into the Ward fight to simply survive. And he did 12 rounds of nothing. Against Johnson he went looking for the win and left himself open and got rocked continually. Johnson is a pro's pro. He gets major props fpr being able to come down to SuperMiddleweight at his age.
Ward and Virgil Hill are going to beat every SuperMiddleweight this side of Bute. And that fight is a toss up IMHO. Ward knows how to take away a fighters advantage. it may be ugly but he is in there playing Chess....a lot of these other dudes are in there playing checkers.
if he gets past all these fighters (2 replacement fights, an half-blind Kessler, a none tourney fight), he won't getpast Abraham.
Abraham gonne win this **** and knock Andre "Dirrell's puppetmaster" Ward the **** out.
why didnt Ward get invloved in some tough fights like all other do.....
Ward got 3 points cuz Dirrell didnt want to fight.............Green didnt get a single point even Kessler was out..........................................
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