Comments Thread For: Ward-Rodriguez: Rules Issue Places Fight in Jeopardy

[BattlingNelson]

Nope. And that's why there is no obligation for either fighter to participate in it

Yeah. So Ward is probably juiced to the max and roaring to go?

[kiaba360]

Maybe it's just mind games.

It probably is. HBO definitely won't be happy if the fight breaks down, and since Ward is one of their biggest stars, he'll take the brunt of it.

I fully expect this fight to happen tonight.

[-PBP-]

Yeah. So Ward is probably juiced to the max and roaring to go?

Prove it.....

[FAt tEDDY]

Probably not, but that's all the more reason for him not to give up 45% of his purse, let alone 35%... I just want to see a fight tonight.

Fighting and performing better than expected is his way to quick redemption imo.

[TRTboy]

I am all for this. You don't make weight you have to pay. If you can't make that weight then move the **** up.

Sick of fighters coming in overweight.

[-PBP-]

What are they going to do, sue him for not fighting? Nah, they just won't pay him. Edwin loses out, Ward loses out and so do the fans.

There will be a fight. This is just lawyers doing their job. I doubt Andre is even aware of this press release.

[kmf77]

yep apply the rules, but most importantly apply the rules in the boxing ring - no holding see the marquess of queensbury rules of boxing

[BattlingNelson]

Prove it.....

Prove what?

[The Problem Child]

45%! Yikes! This move by Ward shows me they are insecure though. To me Ward is a fraud and I'm being completely honest... he won the Super Six okay but against who really? A bunch of okay fighters (Abraham, Bika, Green, Kessler) who he couldn't even knock out. And Froch, let's be real. The guy's style is extremely robotic. I find it very hard to give this guy the credit some do.

[umop-ap!sdn]

See, I told you Ward was a bum and an overrated hype-job phoney. He was scared of Rodriguez and agreed to the compromise yesterday. Now he is trying to weasel his way out of the fight. Never fights out of his backyard, makes champions move down in weight to fight him, and has to have every single advantage imaginable.

Rodriguez came in over the limit....you guys reached an agreement already. You should have acted upon the rules yesterday....it goes to show that you didn't know the rules to begin with or you would not have agreed to a different compensatory amount.

The dude will likely be drained anyway because he didn't prepare properly, you are supposed to be P4P#2 or at least that's what the majority of people think, and you should be able to easily beat him any way. You are scared and trying to take the easy way out....phoney ass dude.

P4P fluke....5 decent fights over guys who already had losses..........guess he was too worried about facing a legit undefeated threat. Never even faced an undefeated guy above scrub level in your entire career.

i will never understand boxing fans.

@JaguaresMx That's not him being a boxing fan, just him trolling. Ignore him like the rest of us have learned to. Trollers just want attention, no disrespect to @mathed but it is what it is. For the most part, he is capable of talking sense and not spewing mindless venom, but this post was clearly just hate mail.