Who should Andre Ward fight next?

[-PBP-]

God, I hope not. That fight took 5 plus years to make.

And it was made when both fighters had no other options. This will be the case here likely.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Kovolev at 175
Ggg at 168
Stevenson at 175


At very least fonfara in wards debut at 175

[McFearless]

Fuggit get that Stevenson fight.

[Eastcoast]

Wards options at SMW are garbage. Fedor Chudinov belongs at MW and lacks the ability to beat most of the other top SMW's. The PBC has some of Ward's best options. Given that's a no go, if he's willing to go up and really test 175, Pascal in Montreal would be a meaningful fight.

Most likely he defends his WBA title against a ho-hum contender:
6. Patrick Nielsen
7. Vincent Feigenbutz
8. Mauricio Reynoso
12. Hadillah Mohoumadi
15. Isaac Ekpo

[M Bison]

Andre Ward should fight Paul Smith again, I thought Smith clearly won that and the only way to be a true great super middleweight champion is by beating Paul Smith two times in a row.

[M Bison]

Kovolev at 175
Ggg at 168
Stevenson at 175


At very least fonfara in wards debut at 175

GGG at 164, A-side makes the demands remember that please.

[Guest]

And it was made when both fighters had no other options. This will be the case here likely.

Great, both will be past prime like Pac and May were.

Oh well. That's rules of boxing...

[285Kid]

Well Ward need somebody that will get him back on HBO, and 175 is the place for him

Isaac Chilemba
Eleider Alvarez
Jean Pascal
Jurgen Brahmer

[Rich2123]

I don't think it's fair to criticize a guy for not moving up in weight, so I'm not going to say Ward has to move up to 175.

But as far as getting him a reasonable level opponent so he can fight on HBO at 168? I don't see it. It may turn out to be a brilliant move in the long run, but for now it seems like signing with Roc Nation maybe a bad move for him. Then again, if they just end up paying him 2 million dollars a fight tomato cans on BET, maybe he doesn't care.

[SCEN3RY]

A DeGale fight at '68 sounds good.

At LHW, I'd like to see him against a top 10 guy. What's Fonfara up to these days.

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Yes. If he's staying at 68, he might as well go after the next best guy at 68 that he hasn't fought, DeGale (or even Andre Dirrell). If he's moving up, Fonfara is a name that he can target before Kov. Those are great options.

And Ward has options, it's just every headline seems to have Golovkin's name attached to it so people forget there are other guys that he could easily target.

There are potential setbacks however, Haymon/ROC, and I hesitate to say...the question of venue.; there are guys for him to fight, but would deals fall apart because he'll insist on Oakland or nothing else?