Comments Thread For: Andre Ward Will Finally Return on June 20th in Oakland

[URAGONAKO]

Didn't they all said Ward is the next Floyd, what happened to skills pay the bills?

Even his employer HBO doesn't want to pay his overpriced fight!!!

[Barcham]

Then it really needs to be called out for what it is.... GGG gets approved to fight Geale / Murray / Macklin / Stevens / Rosado / Rubio / Monroe and he is a HBO fighter, but ward's opponents get turned down and they can never be as pathetic as the bunch I just mentioned, but blind biased people call out the obvious, but not the underlay - wake up and educate your brain - this is BS double standard shyt...

Do you have a list of the opponents Ward proposed? No? Didn't think so. I doubt that any one of them was ranked in the top 25 whereas all of those you mention that GGG fought were ranked in the top 10 MW at the time and two of them, Geale and Murray, still are.

And Ward is asking for more money than GGG probably made in total for all the opponents you have listed.

GGG fights 4 times per year, Ward 4 times every 5 years.

No double standard at all. Ward is simply no longer an attraction that any network is willing to pay for. And by the way, Ward's fights were also refused by Showtime.

[Cinci Champ]

He never said he thought he was the A-Side vs GGG.

he did but it was before ggg had better numbers

[Loque-san]

Nice to see Ward return to the ring after a short 19-month layoff. I do not care who he fights in June, it is all about being back and doing his job, you know, pro boxer. Mikey Garcia should follow suit. They are too talented to waste their prime years.

[lefthook2daliva]

Didn't they all said Ward is the next Floyd, what happened to skills pay the bills?

Even his employer HBO doesn't want to pay his overpriced fight!!!

Where you gonna' be if it turns out that Ward is 100% after his tune up and resumes his domination.

It's not unlikely, ya' know?

Talk **** while you can, I suppose. :wank:

OT: Welcome back Champ!

[mathed]

Then it really needs to be called out for what it is.... GGG gets approved to fight Geale / Murray / Macklin / Stevens / Rosado / Rubio / Monroe and he is a HBO fighter, but ward's opponents get turned down and they can never be as pathetic as the bunch I just mentioned, but blind biased people call out the obvious, but not the underlay - wake up and educate your brain - this is BS double standard shyt...

Ward tries to dictate stuff like he is Floyd but he can't draw 10K people in his hometown. That's why HBO doesn't want to show his fights.

[Fook That BOY]

He will return and will fight BUM for sure.

[Scipio2009]

Do you have a list of the opponents Ward proposed? No? Didn't think so. I doubt that any one of them was ranked in the top 25 whereas all of those you mention that GGG fought were ranked in the top 10 MW at the time and two of them, Geale and Murray, still are.

And Ward is asking for more money than GGG probably made in total for all the opponents you have listed.

GGG fights 4 times per year, Ward 4 times every 5 years.

No double standard at all. Ward is simply no longer an attraction that any network is willing to pay for. And by the way, Ward's fights were also refused by Showtime.

Marco Antonio Periban and Thomas Oothuzien were openly rumored as opponents that were turned down, with likely others refused.

"ranked in the top 10" because the division that they fight in has been the ****s for a while now isn't something that I'd be openly beating my chest over, especially with near all of those fighters battling to be #9/#10 in the division.

[StAlbansBoxing]

Lol, the guy is skilful but i think theres only about 5 people who care about his career at this point in time and that his mom, dad and brothers dude wasted most of his prime and acts like he's a star attraction when he's not

[Barcham]

Marco Antonio Periban and Thomas Oothuzien were openly rumored as opponents that were turned down, with likely others refused.

"ranked in the top 10" because the division that they fight in has been the ****s for a while now isn't something that I'd be openly beating my chest over, especially with near all of those fighters battling to be #9/#10 in the division.

Sorry, but "openly rumored" doesn't cut it. An official list, confirmed by Ward's people and the proposed opponent's people and HBO is all that is acceptable. If such a list cannot be provided, then people should STFU and not try to make comparisons when they have nothing to compare with.

Idiots. Ward fans are such desperate creatures seeing as they have nothing recent to use as ammunition. Only achievements from years past that no longer mean anything and current rumors and speculations. Sad.