Comments Thread For: Team GGG: Ward Not The A-Side, Can't Dictate Terms

[M Bison]

Neither is a A-Side, this is FEAR from GGG Team, not really him but his TEAM who I don't think want GGG in with Ward right now. They trying to build a brand and Ward is more than capable of ruining that Brand and they know it. GGG himself I don't think cares and if it was purely up to him I think GGG would just do it. But K2 wants to continue to ride this little wave they have going and I can understand that but what is annoying is when people just don't say that. Instead, they just Talk Tough and use this "A-Side" stuff and "You're Not A Draw"

If I'm Ward I would say "*** You, You're Not Worth It You Haven't Accomplished Anything In This Sports Yet And Certainly Not As Much As I Have To Run Around Calling Yourself The "A-Side" and start focusing on moving up to 175! Can't wait around for people who clearly don't want to fight and if they do they will try to put all type of unrealistic stipulations in place like a 164 Catchweight. Next request will be fighting in Kazakhstan Don't tell the people you will fight Chavez Jr and Froch at 168 but not Ward? That makes you look weak but you get a pass because boxing now has very ****** fanboy/groupie type fans who stick up for their guy no matter what.

Time for Ward to just Move up and fight Pascal, Yunieski Gonzalez or Isaac Chilemba before doing the Kovalev fight next year. The rest of 168 since Ward has returned been VERY QUIET, not one as even mention Ward name and nobody is issuing a Challenge.

You Forgot To Capitalize Every Starting Letter Of Your Words In Your Essay.

[Eff Pandas]

Still, until the PPV actually gets aired, all this talk of "Golovkin is the A-side" is quite premature, made more obvious by Loeffler insinuating a 50/50 split in the Rafael hypothetical.

Yes & no. The fact that GGG is scheduled to headline a PPV & Ward has never even been scheduled to headline a PPV has some meaning already imo. Thats why I said Loeffler is more right than wrong with his remark right now even if I can understand the prematureness remark you bring up.

But yea once GGG officially has some PPV numbers to point to & Ward only has his impressive resume from several years ago the importance of each fighter to the current marketplace will be clear.

[M Bison]

froch chose to retire rather then go to war with golovkin.

Carl Froch is a bigger name than both but GGG is second to Froch in terms of fan base, nobody cares about Ward, Ward is the same guy who chickened out of facing Carl Froch in England...
Yet they want to talk about GGG "ducking" absolutely pathetic excuses of boxing fans.

[ricodonjefe]

Ggg team should keep there trap shut for now with his resume and if he loses to lemiux it's gonna be a bad look HYPE TRAIN.. Abel should close his mouth and worry about this fight against lemiux! !!

[Nay_Sayer]

How are they not the A side...

Ward makes more money for starters...

[Mate_Parlov]

-Ward and Golovkin walk around within ten pounds of each other

-Golovkin sold 15k tickets, at least 8k of which were likely priced at $50 (Ward-Smith drew about as well as Ward-Dawson, with the relative ticket pricing still in flux; have no doubt that Ward was able to bring in another $700k gate)

-With Team Golovkin seemingly trying to dictate terms to Cotto/Canelo, i doubt that fight happens (WBC will make Cotto/Canelo winner WBC 160 champion emeritus, to then turn around and sanction Cotto-Canelo II for the vacant WBC 154 belt, while also sanction Golovkin versus another can); playing that "A-side" BS is a double-edged sword

-Sergey Kovalev walks into the ring over 190lbs for his fights; Ward likely walked into the ring for the Paul Smith fight in the high 170s.

Since you have only have assumptions, assume this

GGG easily makes 160, Andrea has problems making 172 let alone 168. Given the fact that Andrea has a lot larger build, it is likely that he walks around 15 to 20 pounds heavier.

There is no doubt in my mind that Andrea is poor draw. Given all historical facts, he was not big draw in his peak of popularity neither (comparing with contemporary fighters in lower categories - Mayweather, Pac, Cotto, Canelo, Chavez Jr ). There is no way he can draw $700K gate as A side boxer.

All the rest is just your imagination since you have no valid sources

[peplz]

Extrordinarily elaborate excuses.

Yeah Ward isn't relevant. That's why there's 200 comments on this article. More extrordinarily elaborate excuses from team Triple E...

[GMAN SUPREME]

I like GGG the fighter but how the hell did his team go from most feared to A-side overnight?

your a dumbass.boxing is prize fighting. when has golovkin's team say he's the most feared fighter?

[carloscruz10009]

^^^This is GGG in a nutshell. All he, his team, and his ****** azz fans yap about is, "unify the division, unify the division, unify the division" when it comes to Ward. But they never put names with those ridiculous paper trinkets that they claim are oh so important. Let's do that:

Miguel Cotto: The Ring, lineal, and WBC champ. Beat a crippled dawg in Sergio Martinez for the title in his middleweight debut. Only got the undeserved shot because of boxing politricks. Started his career a jr welterweight. And at this point in his career, is a natural jr middleweight that has never fought at the middleweight limit.

Andy Lee: WBO titlist. Won a vacant belt. Has been KO'd by Chavez Jr and former ESPN FNFs regular Brian Vera.

David Lemieux: IBF titlist. Won belt vacated by a tragic story in Jermain Taylor, who should have never been fighting in the first place. And who took the belt from a 40yr old journeyman. Lemieux has been KO'd by fringe contender Marco Antonio Rubio. And was decisioned by past his prime Joachim Alcine, who was a mere fringe contender in his prime.

"Unify, unify, unify." Sounds more like the bum of the month club to me.

What you talking about? That list is better than the group for the Super 6 Tournament

[GMAN SUPREME]

Yeah Ward isn't relevant. That's why there's 200 comments on this article. More extrordinarily elaborate excuses from team Triple E...

get 300k viewers on bet ward is irrelevant to the mainstream public.ward is desperate admit it he needs golovkin to bring his career back from the dead.