Comments Thread For: Andre Ward-Marco Antonio Periban in Play For 6/20?

[H-Tok]

Pathetic opponent.

Periban has just one win in his last five fights.

i was about to type that...

It's pathetic, tune up or not.

[CANELOLUJAH]

I understand he needs a tune up but Periban is very poor, fat & undedicated. The guy didn't even appear to train for his last fight let alone attempt to make weight where he went on to get stopped in 3 lop sided rounds against James DeGale who is not a big puncher or a fast starter by any means.
That was a world title eliminator and frankly it was disgusting and total disrespect to everybody involved especially the paying customer.
Why is this lazy oaf getting rewarded? This is what is wrong with boxing!
He didn't even train, show heart or even try to win his last fight. Hes lost about 5 in a row and getting a shot at a top 3 p4p fighter?

Absolute joke of a fight. Periban is not even a gatekeeper at this stage!

[shoog]

What can one say, not equating ward to tiger but hearing that tiger is teeing off in the masters this week, im just happy to hear that, i can say the same about ward, its unfortunate that his career has taken this turn, i dont like that hes with roc nation and fighting on BET, its to much of a wildcard and to much unknown, i do wish he was still with old reliable HBO, as im anxious about what will happen next for him. His unwillingness to travel and his once in a blue moon fighting leave me concerned that hes wasting his prime and wondering what could have been: ie froch,dirrell, golovkin,kovalev even jr, these matchups seem like pipe dreams now, as far as periban, its a step down from the rodriguez fight but that feels like a lifetime ago.

[Contra]

I didn't think he was gonna take on a dangerous opponent for his comeback fight, so I'm not surprised by this.

Anyway, hopefully this means that we get to see Golovkin-Ward in 2016.

[-DSG-]

Ward-Golovkin should happen at the end of the year neither one of these guys is going to be a ppv type fighter both are two of the best out there make it happen!

[Hougigo]

It's not necessarily a title fight. Usually **** tuneups like this aren't approved by sanctioning bodies. Ward will probably keep his belt, but I doubt the WBA will let the title be on the line for this one fight.

But just the fact he has the belt still with all this inactivity is just dumb. If he does a non title, he'll be going to 2 years w/o defending it

[Scipio2009]

He should fight Rogelio Medina instead. The guy who stopped Love.

Periban just lost to J'Leon Love and got stopped by DeGale.

Depending on how the Froch stuff shakes out, Ward could fight Periban in June, Medina/Froch in the late fall, and then Golovkin early 2016 (if Team Golovkin/Abel Sanchez is still talking about GGG wrecking Ward)

[dirty fingers]

I wouldn't even watch this shit in the Bare Knuckle Boxing pit.

[Scipio2009]

But just the fact he has the belt still with all this inactivity is just dumb. If he does a non title, he'll be going to 2 years w/o defending it

It'd be a year and a half, come June, but situations like Ward's are why the WBA structured their organization in the funky way that they did.

The champions at super middleweight are Ward(WBA), Dirrell(WBC), DeGale/Dirrell(IBF), Arthur Abraham(WBO) and Carl Froch(wba).

Who's organization is represented by the best fighter at 168? The WBA.

[Sup]

periban is mexican, tough dude not a bad fight