Andre Ward: "you're going to see the same Arthur Abraham"

[FloydTBE]

I see this fight as a good fight, abraham has to come out and try to force ward back from 1st bell. Ward will try to do his usual stuff, hold, clinch n headbutt

[Bierstadt]

abraham should've fought like a desperate man against froch and he stood there for half an hour. i don't see any reason to expect anything different this time around

You have the right attitude. I had huge expectations for the Dirrell and Froch fights, and look how those turned out. So for this one let's just assume that Abraham will be getting very badly beaten, and then maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised.


Unfortunately he'll be staying with Wegner. Who's a very respected trainer but as shown is very limited and is holding Arthur back. It probably is too late to change anything anyway, but I would have liked to see him give one last shot with another trainer. I pray that those two overcome their pride for a minute and admit their awful mistakes, train their a$$ off, and put everything on the line with Ward.


I hate to be pessimistic, but Abraham convinced me that he really would be changing things up for the Froch fight, taking it to him early, blah blah. I trusted him once, and am reluctant to do so. But I'm not some phony fan who drops their favorite fighter after a bad night, especially two subsequent ones. I'm gonna stick it out with him and win or lose against Ward, I'll still remember the good days at middleweight.

[Weebler I]

AA will fight exactly how he is used to fighting. He's not changing his style overnight, IMO.

He doesn't have to change his style, he just has to take more risks, something he looked reluctant to do until late on against Froch, but this time it's all or nothing, for not just the tournament but arguably his career.

[Heeb]

I agree, I don't expect Abraham to change much at this stage of his career.

[FloydTBE]

I agree, I don't expect Abraham to change much at this stage of his career.

you expecting him to stand in center of ring woth hnad on his head n get outboxed for 12rounds?

[Heru]

AA will fight exactly how he is used to fighting. He's not changing his style overnight, IMO.

That's the thing about Ward that frustrates me, man. He can just take a step or two back and pop combinations but for some reason he doesn't do that enough. He easily could've stopped Green this way since Green was DEAD that night.

He has no excuse for not stopping Green that night and taking a step back to give himself more room would have done the trick. Green was dead for the entire second half of the fight, so doing that at any time could have gotten him the stoppage that night.

The problem is that Ward has settled into that inside fighting style and once he begins fighting that way, it seems he can't stop.

[SUPREME.]

I have Ward winning an easy UD, handing Arthur his 3rd consecutive loss.

Arthur has no chance against Ward. And I don't even like Ward.

[Heeb]

you expecting him to stand in center of ring woth hnad on his head n get outboxed for 12rounds?

To some extent...