Comments Thread For: Andre Ward Seeks Criminal Investigation on Goossen

[Mr. Philadel]

I really don't understand why he would re up with Goosen....didn't even know he did that...smh....maybe he saw the light and smelt the bs too late

Ward doesn't come across as a saint but dude is far from devious....the way cats who grew up with him speak of him as a cool honest dude....so there must be something that's causing Ward to take such actions....it's just a matter of can he prove it....so far he hasn't but the man is still rumbling....Ward is not accustomed to losing

[JJRod]

Goosen isn't getting him fights, better yet has turned down fights for Ward without his knowledge, so how can he fight?

Hasn't gotten him fights? He got him plenty of fights prior to Ward taking Goosen to court.
How can goosen negotiate a fight for a fighter who is suing him and dirtying his name in public?

[Sugar Adam Ali]

I just think that ward sees that the grass is greener on the other side so he is looking for any technicality to get free.. That's why he has been in court several times and has lost..but he keeps trying..
I just wish this would hurry up and resolve itself, so ward can get back to fighting..

[SilverMiles]

I just think that ward sees that the grass is greener on the other side so he is looking for any technicality to get free.. That's why he has been in court several times and has lost..but he keeps trying..
I just wish this would hurry up and resolve itself, so ward can get back to fighting..

Agree with this post. Everyoine going back and forth about who's right and who's wrong but I think the most obvious reason Ward is suing is because he believes Top Rank can turn him into a star like Manny and ODLH. Ward should honor his contract and stop wasting his prime in and out of court.

[turnedup]

I really wish Andre the best but if he was going to do all of this...he should've done it ages ago. They could really tie his @ss up in litigation until it's too late to do anything with his career. Guess he's comfortable with what being an analyst pays him because it might very well become his only source of income after this next fight.

[BOXING-SCRIBE]

Ward is really a sleeze ball,he paints this good boy picture, but he is a snake...and a biatch

[firstborn]

Ward is really a sleeze ball,he paints this good boy picture, but he is a snake...and a biatch

I've seen him around town and he always seemed cool. Why do you dislike him?

[Daddy T]

just shut up and get back in the ****ing ring

[Weebler I]

How are you going to ask for a criminal investigation on Goossen when your choice of manager is James Prince?

J prince should just send his goons, time for an offer he can't refuse.

That might work in the hood, but it would be the end of James Prince if he tried it on Goossen. Huge publicity, Court orders, Feds on the case...and Ward's image tarnished for good, might even lose him his HBO job.

[djt117]

Yeah, it's a good point. Is Ward saying he was being ripped off (period), or is he saying that it has come to light that financial sums weren't disclosed properly in the correct timeframe? Whatever, I'm not really fighting Ward's corner, I'm just anti-greed from the promoters.

Buddy I got news for you, promoters don't get into business to run a charity.

As someone indicated above, the promoters often invest very large sums of money early in the fighters' careers -- not just in the ones that make it to the top, but on many more who never do.

The entire point is to make it so that once you hit the jackpot and one of your guys becomes a top fighter, he starts churning out money for you every time he fights because you're now getting a modest % of a very large number.

If you made it easy for fighters to just walk away or made a law that said agreements have to be short-term, there'd be no incentive to build stars.

Fighters aren't born rich so somebody with deep pockets needs to bankroll their careers, and promoters actually serve an essential function, especially at the small-time levels of the sport. You know all those fights you don't see on TV? Well some guy is out there hustling to sell enough tickets to cover the cost of putting on a card, hoping someday he finds a diamond in the rough and one of the major promoters comes around and offers to buy the fighter's contract (or half of it) in order to take that fighter to the next level.

Make it easy for a fighter to just exit a contract anytime he feels like it and you'd see all these minor promoters whose names we don't know just disappear tomorrow because there simply would not be any incentive to do it.