HBO: We Won't Pay Ward big bucks to fight a bum!!!

[Thornton Melon]

Is that right?? So Broner and Berto didn't make a living of fighting bums on hbo for year then???

Yes they did and Al Haymon held them hostage and that is why HBO put an end to it and let Golden Boy walk. They were not going to pay Broner a million plus to fight Rees and guys like that anymore which is great for us fans.

[DosRounds]

Ward does travel, he's fought in the Cayman Islands and St Lucia. Not many fighters go there to fight

[Jayallday9]

I can definitly respect HBO's position on this one. Especially since they already paid him big bucks to fight a bum in Froch!!!
But it is time Ward does something significant like fight Adonis or move up..

[LacedUp]

Get over yourself, Eurofan. Ward is the absolute top dog in his weight division and only second to maybe Floyd Mayweather in the entire sport. He doesn't have to travel, the biggest business in boxing is in the USA.
Hard to imagine a real fan of the sport saying the best fighter should be frozen out because he doesn't want to do something that is absolutely against his best interest.

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Ward would make double his best payday to go to the UK and fight Froch. He could even go to Denmark and fight Kessler and still make more than his biggest payday. So no, the biggest business is definitely not in the states. Unless he moves up to LHW which he hasn't yet. He's in a predominantly euro run division, they travelled to fight him so it's only fair he does the same.

[Ratchet]

I can definitly respect HBO's position on this one. Especially since they already paid him big bucks to fight a bum in Froch!!!

1. That fight was on Showtime.

2. Froch is a bum? Really? So what does that make Ward if he beat him? lol

[Check]

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Ward would make double his best payday to go to the UK and fight Froch. He could even go to Denmark and fight Kessler and still make more than his biggest payday. So no, the biggest business is definitely not in the states. Unless he moves up to LHW which he hasn't yet. He's in a predominantly euro run division, they travelled to fight him so it's only fair he does the same.

Ward would get robbed so bad in those nations. If I was him I'd NEVER leave the United States because he would get jobbed. He's already proven that he is head and shoulders better than Kessler and Froch anyways. There is nothing left to prove against those guys.

[abdiel2k3]

hbo seems extremely confused
tryin to clean up boxing when they pretty much created its current state
hope ward goes to showtime too
hbo should just drop boxing let the fighters all go to showtime and pick up ufc or that bkb ****

[Szef]

I can definitly respect HBO's position on this one. Especially since they already paid him big bucks to fight a bum in Froch!!!
But it is time Ward does something significant like fight Adonis or move up..

Go get me a beer

Ward would get robbed so bad in those nations. If I was him I'd NEVER leave the United States because he would get jobbed. He's already proven that he is head and shoulders better than Kessler and Froch anyways. There is nothing left to prove against those guys.

Wow, how pathetic are you? Yeah you're right, don't go to UK because you will get robbed, instead fight in your hometown in USA (A place where robbery in boxing match has never had place) where a hometown judge will let you to headbutt your opponent dozens of times. Find a treatment for your xenophobia buddy.

But I do agree with you that he has nothing to prove against Kessler and Froch, he beat them already in dominant fashion, and he would do that again.
I want him to fight GGG (a fight that i think will happen and Golovkin will beat him but that's just my opinion) or move up to clean weak LHW division.

Thank god he has a job in HBO.

[Alec900]

Ward would get robbed so bad in those nations. If I was him I'd NEVER leave the United States because he would get jobbed. He's already proven that he is head and shoulders better than Kessler and Froch anyways. There is nothing left to prove against those guys.

but it's ok for fighters outside usa travel to US to get robbed right?

[Weebler I]

Ward should move up to 175 or at least fight someone like Edwin Rodriguez or someone in the Top 10 at 168.

James DeGale (#10) wants to fights Ward.

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Ward would make double his best payday to go to the UK and fight Froch. He could even go to Denmark and fight Kessler and still make more than his biggest payday. So no, the biggest business is definitely not in the states. Unless he moves up to LHW which he hasn't yet. He's in a predominantly euro run division, they travelled to fight him so it's only fair he does the same.

He could, if they made him a firm offer. I don't believe they ever did.

Ward would get robbed so bad in those nations. If I was him I'd NEVER leave the United States because he would get jobbed. He's already proven that he is head and shoulders better than Kessler and Froch anyways. There is nothing left to prove against those guys.

More robberies take place in the States.

A US judge, a Canadian judge and a UK judge would leave it fair.

Bottom line is Ward can sit on his '0' earning relative peanuts or travel and earn millions of dollars. His decision...