Comments Thread For: Golovkin's Promoter: Ward Looking Less and Less Likely

[aboutfkntime]

Do you ask yourself, sometimes: "Where is Ward at now? Is he fighting a retired bloke, again? When and where? At what weight?"

No, only for the last week-or-two.....

Ever since it was announced that he may appear on Cotto/Canelo.

But his inactivity over the last 2 years has been a little frustrating.

[kafkod]

Do you ask yourself, sometimes: "Where is Ward at now? Is he fighting a retired bloke, again? When and where? At what weight?"

David Iskovitch, at Roc Nation, would love to know the answers to those questions.

[aboutfkntime]

You know saying you'll fight anyone from 154-168 doesn't mean you do it when they want. But here, since you take that comment from Abel as the true comment they should be held to, how about this.

Andre Ward's a liar. When he sent that email, it was after the Lemieux fight had already signed," he said. "So he's a liar. Secondly, we've been trying to get Andre Ward to come to some kind of agreement for the last couple years. First, he was in trouble with Goossen, they were suing each other, and Goossen beat him three times.

"Then he signed with Roc Nation. Go back and look at the transcripts, the first thing Roc Nation said was he needs two tune-up fights. Then he fights one at 172. We as Golovkin's team cannot sit around waiting for Andre Ward to make up his mind what he wants to do."

So they actually are saying we offered him fights, multiple times.

So how only do they have to take a Ward fight, they have to sign a contract and fight Ward 1 year, 4 months later, because Ward says so.

Respect the facts man!

You are drowning here.

The first excuses that GGG used were passable..... weak, but passable.

But as for that 164lb catchweight demand..... NO Siree, just NO !

A duck..... is a duck..... even if it does have horns

[Eastcoast]

We're just over 6 weeks out from Canelo/Cotto, and still no Ward fight announcement. I wonder if it's because he's refusing to give in to HBO's demand to commit to a Kovalev fight?

[kafkod]

Nope, I will take your word for it.

The fact that catchweights are obviously being abused is very apparent.

You can argue about the money, fair enough..... but the catchweight demand for Ward was a blatant duck.

It is not the fact that GGG was willing to fight Froch and Chavez at 168.....
..... it is the fact that they know Ward cant make 164.

I don't believe Ward actually wants to fight GGG, any more than he wants to fight Kovalev.

But if they ever do start negotiating, 50/50 on weight and money would be the opening move by Loeffler, to try and get Ward to accept less than 50% of the money in return for GGG fighting him at 168.

[kafkod]

We're just over 6 weeks out from Canelo/Cotto, and still no Ward fight announcement. I wonder if it's because he's refusing to give in to HBO's demand to commit to a Kovalev fight?

Clearly, things are not going to plan over at Roc Nation. Otherwise we would have heard something about it by now.

[MDPopescu]

I don't believe Ward actually wants to fight GGG, any more than he wants to fight Kovalev.

But if they ever do start negotiating, 50/50 on weight and money would be the opening move by Loeffler, to try and get Ward to accept less than 50% of the money in return for GGG fighting him at 168.

You don't need to lose your time with this kind of posters -- they don't even want to remember when Ward first ducked poor Bute, back in 2012...

[aboutfkntime]

We're just over 6 weeks out from Canelo/Cotto, and still no Ward fight announcement. I wonder if it's because he's refusing to give in to HBO's demand to commit to a Kovalev fight?

I heard its a 3-fight deal.

Expect no progress whatsoever if that is the case.

Ward/Kovalev can stand on its own merit..... Ward should not have to give HBO options on 3 additional fights.

Fcuk HBO, they killed the Stevenson fight, no point in rewarding them for it.

[aboutfkntime]

I don't believe Ward actually wants to fight GGG, any more than he wants to fight Kovalev.

But if they ever do start negotiating, 50/50 on weight and money would be the opening move by Loeffler, to try and get Ward to accept less than 50% of the money in return for GGG fighting him at 168.

I dont believe, that you dont believe Ward wants the fight.

[kafkod]

I heard its a 3-fight deal.

Expect no progress whatsoever if that is the case.

Ward/Kovalev can stand on its own merit..... Ward should not have to give HBO options on 3 additional fights.

Fcuk HBO, they killed the Stevenson fight, no point in rewarding them for it.

Ward actually has a contract with HBO, same as Kovalev. He only fought Smith on BET because HBO didn't want to touch it.