Comments Thread For: Andre Ward: Golovkin Has Had 8 or 9 Different Excuses

[SteveM]

Dear Andre Ward,

You have maximum respect from most hardcore boxing fans. I would like to leave out the word "hardcore" and just say boxing fans but then I would be falsifying the reality as casuals still have no idea who you are. Andre, everything you said is true and, in an ideal world, you would continually be challenged by other top ten fighters in your division. But as we all know, the reality is that money is a big factor in boxing. You are soooooo good that you are now avoided by all and sundry. The only thing left for you to do is to fight 4 times a year for little money or have your rich promoter make huge offers for the more attractive fights. Please put pressure on your promoter, offer Golovkin $4million. I can almost guarantee you he won't turn it down. If your promoter won't back you like that then I suggest you devote more time to your promising commentary career and let your boxing career wind down.
By the way, if you do manage to sort out this conundrum please send some advice the way of my friend Rigo, last seen on some beach down in Florida.
Sincerely .....

[Slick_Rick]

Yeah Ward, you can talk, you want to pull up a smallish middleweight to SMW after you pulled down a LHW to SMW.

You're fighting Paul Smith next..

[zerosixthree]

So what's the offer on the table and when is the earliest Ward is willing to fight?

[MDPopescu]

Dear Andre Ward,

You have maximum respect from most hardcore boxing fans. I would like to leave out the word "hardcore" and just say boxing fans but then I would be falsifying the reality as casuals still have no idea who you are. Andre, everything you said is true and, in an ideal world, you would continually be challenged by other top ten fighters in your division. But as we all know, the reality is that money is a big factor in boxing. You are soooooo good that you are now avoided by all and sundry. The only thing left for you to do is to fight 4 times a year for little money or have your rich promoter make huge offers for the more attractive fights. Please put pressure on your promoter, offer Golovkin $4million. I can almost guarantee you he won't turn it down. If your promoter won't back you like that then I suggest you devote more time to your promising commentary career and let your boxing career wind down.
By the way, if you do manage to sort out this conundrum please send some advice the way of my friend Rigo, last seen on some beach down in Florida.
Sincerely .....

... Green K sent.......................................

[Eastcoast]

So if HBO offered $4mill for this fight, would Ward follow what Kovalev did vs Hopkins and just take $500k in order to make the fight? Why don't one of these boxing reporters ask him that?

[SAN D13GO VILLAN]

Funny how they're both in the same situation.... They both want to fight smaller guys and they don't want to move up and fight that certain somebody.

[aldo5408]

Dear Andre Ward,

You have maximum respect from most hardcore boxing fans. I would like to leave out the word "hardcore" and just say boxing fans but then I would be falsifying the reality as casuals still have no idea who you are. Andre, everything you said is true and, in an ideal world, you would continually be challenged by other top ten fighters in your division. But as we all know, the reality is that money is a big factor in boxing. You are soooooo good that you are now avoided by all and sundry. The only thing left for you to do is to fight 4 times a year for little money or have your rich promoter make huge offers for the more attractive fights. Please put pressure on your promoter, offer Golovkin $4million. I can almost guarantee you he won't turn it down. If your promoter won't back you like that then I suggest you devote more time to your promising commentary career and let your boxing career wind down.
By the way, if you do manage to sort out this conundrum please send some advice the way of my friend Rigo, last seen on some beach down in Florida.
Sincerely .....

You could say the same about ggg he's with K2 but they don't put the money up. GGG's opponents make like 200k or less

[RichCCFC]

lol? When was the last time you fought Ward? Why arent you calling out Kovalev? and why do you block people on twitter for the slightest of criticisms you big pansy!

[rajaomair]

WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (27-0, 14KOs) is a week away from his scheduled return. Ward, who's been out of the ring since November 2013, is back in the ring on June 20th against Paul Smith at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. The fight will headline Roc Nation Sports' first televised event on BET.

During Ward's period of inactivity, his name was consistently linked to several potential fights. One of those potential fights would come against WBA/IBO middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (33-0, 30KOs).
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A LH(ward) calling out a small-medium MW rather than calling out Kovalev, smh.

[Sweet_Science2]

Get him Ward!! Look at your resume and his resume... You are destroying him. Dude is 33 and his best win Cotto stomped him out last week. Lara call's ggg out for several; months nothing but excuses. (Lara doesn't have fans but Monroe is more known than Lara?) So it is fine to fight Monroe but not even acknowledge Lara?

Ward been saying HBO is trying to force feed us ggg and his team didn't say shyt. So Jacobs, Quillen, etc.... ALL get called names like "coward" and "*******" for not fighting ggg even though they fight under (PBC, And Haymon) and they don't call ggg a coward for wanting to fight them and hiding behind HBO. But when Lara calls out ggg he is hiding behind Haymon? So which one is it?

And Ward would destroy, dismantle, shut out ggg easy money. There is a reason he was only trying to fight: Froch, and Chavez jr, at 168. Never even bothered to ask Ward for a catch weight of 164. 4 pounds for each fighter. If Ward says no that's on him. But dude has not even MENTIONED the thought of fighting Ward. But bring up Floyd, he will get real excited (He is with Haymon). Bottom line keep the pressure on them Ward! You and Lara are doing a damn good job.


He is the boogey man! And two bigger versions of Floyd want that action. We clearly see who doesn't though.