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

[HeroBando]

I'm not even sure it's Ward doing the asking, it might be Dan Goossen because on twitter Ward hadn't heard anything about HBO's refusal.

@Staarx313 What HBO situation??

— Andre S.O.G. Ward (@andreward) July 27, 2013

@Staarx313 Where did u hear that??

— Andre S.O.G. Ward (@andreward) July 27, 2013

That's plausible, you could see trouble ahead when he tried to split for Goossen and was denied

[al-Xander]

Networks and promoters are standing up against boring boxers. First it was Arum and Schaefer on Rigo and Lara respectively. I don't find Ward boring, though.

[wizard king]

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.

You are an idiot ward must travel especially since he doest sell tickets. A fighter can't have home court advantage in every damm fight it's bs

[Jack Napier]

who's even left for Ward to fight at SMW?
he owned everybody in the division that really matters
no need for rematches with either Bika or Froch, though they're ok
Bika will likely fight Chavez anyway, Froch's got Groves
Ward's entitled to a tuneup after a layoff, just take the WBA mando
after that he should go to 175

[kiaba360]

DeGale, Oosthuizen, Gonzalez or Andre Dirrell would be good opponents.

[thuggery]

Good for HBO, I applaud them.

This inactive borefest has officially been dropped from my p4p list due to inactivity.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

DeGale, Oosthuizen, Gonzalez or Andre Dirrell would be good opponents.

I agree with this,,, You could also throw in Anthony dirrell, maybe as a tune-up for andre fight,, maybe have andre on the undercard and build towards the andre vs andre fight.... Edwin rodgriguez should also be on the list

[TOBYLEE1]

Its all right that he gets a tune up but he should not get paid a bunch of money for it.

[boxingfan10]

Word is Ward wants big money for a tune up and HBO are not having a bar of it.

Realistically who else is out there at Super Middleweight
available for Andre Son of GOD Ward? First, we got Edwin
Rodriguez (24-0) w 16 KO's recently won the Monte Carlo
Super 4 Tournament by defeating Denis Grachev. Edwin did
call out Sakio Bika says that he's ready for a title match up
and second, we got the winner Lucian Bute/Jean Pascal and
surprisingly that match wont be happening until, December 7
that's pretty much all we got left at this point. Andre Ward's
victory in the Showtime Super 6 Tournament he pretty much
cleaned out the entire Super Middleweight division so, should
not need a basic tune up fight. If anything Robert Stieglitz is
a decent opponent & current WBO Super Middleweight champ.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

after years of doing that for Al Haymon fighters, i dont blame HBO for saying no to Ward