Why Does Andre Ward Not Move Up to 175lbs and fight Sergey Kovalev?

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  • King_
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    #61
    Light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson and super middleweight champion Andre Ward are planning to face each other in September in a match of two of the best fighters in the world.





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    • sicko
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      #62
      Because that really don't solve his problem, first off of all, who are we kidding here...Ward vs Kovalev is not a big fight, big money fight or a PPV Fight. Kovalev is not a star or a draw in the US just yet but he is trying to BUILD towards it.

      After Kovalev 175 then what? Is a great question considering the fact that lets be honest he is with HBO at the moment, B-Hop, Stevenson are all on Showtime. So he would run into the same situation that he is in now in after 1 FIGHT AT 175! He might as well wait for Chavez Jr or GGG to move up, maybe a younger guy like DeGale or J'Leon Love, Groves, Oosthuizen can emerge and come after him I don't know but he is in a horrible situation.

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      • Y0@NN
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        #63
        A fight with DeGale makes sense, Algieri gets a Pacman fight after "beating" Provodnikov, why shouldn't DeGale deserve a Ward fight after he destroyed his sparring partner?

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        • daggum
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          #64
          ward got 2 million to fight that bum rodriguez. that's some of the best promoting i've ever seen and ward isn't happy?

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            #65
            Originally posted by daggum
            ward got 2 million to fight that bum rodriguez. that's some of the best promoting i've ever seen and ward isn't happy?
            Any other promoter would get him 2 billion

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            • US Dirk Killer
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              #66
              Andre "Golovkin" Ward

              "I am ready to fight the best 168- and 175-pounders that are out there," Ward told ESPN.com in a recent interview. "At this point, a big fight at 175 is interesting to me. I don't want to go up just to go up. But for the right fight, for a big fight, I would go up. I'm willing to fight anyone at '68 or '75."

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              • Hougigo
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                #67
                Originally posted by US Dirk Killer
                Andre "Golovkin" Ward
                LOL... did he really say that?

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                  #68
                  Basically the moral of the story is that both GGG and Ward fans need to STFU about people ducking their guys.

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                  • King_
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                    #69
                    Originally posted by Dirk Diggler UK
                    Basically the moral of the story is that both GGG and Ward fans need to STFU about people ducking their guys.
                    Nah. Everyone is still ducking Golovkin. Including Ward



                    Ward is all talk. He never sent an offer.... He's calling out Golovkin while In the middle of a lawsuit, no promoter and semi-retirement


                    Just like Quillin saying he would fight him after he can hide behind the network dispute

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                    • Box-Office
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                      #70
                      I don't understand why he hasn't moved up already to LHW let alone fight Kovalev?

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