Andre Ward vs. Rohan Murdock Nov 21 on Cotto/Canelo undercard

[FrankieBruno]

They aren't. They have already lost millions by any reasonable guess from the outside looking in.
1. Whatever it cost to buy him out of the contract with Goosen
2. Time buy on BET
3. $2million purse to Ward for the fight plus other purses on the card (which nobody watched and didn't have a significant gate)
4. Another 2 million or close to it to fight on the undercard of Cotto-Canelo. However, Roc Nation will likely make a nice profit on this ppv so it won't hurt as badly.

Crazy......

[Sparked_26]

What Ward is doing is unprecedented. It leaves a sour taste in the mouth.

He is possibly the best fighter in the sport and he is fighting guys he would still beat if he inhaled a kilo of ketamine and chopped one of his arms off. It is a joke.

Staying busy is not enough. He is almost unwatchable anyway but even more so when the fight is meaningless. Now we have to watch Mr. Charisma clinch and maul an Australian kid who is probably in the United States on his gap year and has run out of beer money.

[Raonic]

They picked a SMW to fight at 175? How exactly is this a tune up to get ready for Kovalev? This does nothing to help him get ready for such a guy.

[Eastcoast]

Smith and Murdock are no different from Adama, Monroe, Rosado, Ishida. Ward is fighting GGG-type of opposition because he just came of a long layoff. He needs two fights to go back to fighting beasts like Kovalev. It's going to be a great fight hopefully in 2016. Who you got?

GTFO with your blind ignorance.Outside of Monroe, Golovkin was forced to fight such fighters due to economic conditions. Nobody was getting $2mill+ for those fights. Smith was on level with Ishida, that's it.

Even then, Adama, Rosado, and Monroe are levels above Paul Smith who on a 2 fight losing streak and having been KO'd multiple times, is levels above Murdock.

• Adama challenged Geale for the IBF title after beating Karmazin and his only other losses were at SMW to Donvon George and Dyah Davis.
  
• Ishida just went the distance vs Pirog & Paul Williams, with wins over Kirkland and Canelo's older brother.
  
• Rosado just won a 3-fight IBF elimination all by stoppage on NBC.
  
• Monroe just beat Vera, Adams, and Kopylenko with only losing a few rounds.

Ward's in a position to fight much better opposition like Periban, Medina, Ekpo, Hadillah Mohoumadi, Maderna, Caparello, Sullivan Barrera, Yunieski Gonzalez, Nadjib Mohammedi, Vyacheslav Shabranskyy, Vasily Lepikhin, Maxim Vlasov, Cedric Agnew, Denis Grachev & Cornelius White - all would've been waaaaaaay better than Murdock.

There's no excuse for this low-level of a cherry pick. He's had plenty of time and has lots of money to work with.

[STAX ON DECK]

i cant wait for this fight,gonna be a clinic for ward

[Crazylegs77]

Murdock is a young hungry lion and KO artist, just look at that record.

[kafkod]

What was GGG doing willie Monroe jr.?

Difference is GGG has been very active, Ward has not been so tune ups are the norm when you've only fought 2 times in almost 3 years




I hate how people nit pick with one fighter, but don't with others.....You cant have it that way.....it goes both ways

What a bullshit post. You are as shameless as Ward himself.

[kafkod]

Best not to engage in the back and forth. The Kovalev fight will happen next year then we will get our turn to laugh at these dudes and bump these threads.

I'm starting to feel sorry for you chumps.

[Barcham]

I love people who say that Ward needs a few easy fights before getting back to fighting monsters like Kovalev. Well the fact of the matter is this...

WARD NEVER IN HIS LIFE FACED ANYONE CLOSE TO KOVALEV!!!

Fighting these total sacrificial lambs will NOT prepare him for Kovalev or Beterbiev or Stevenson or ANY LHW fighter. This fight is a farce and HBO should be ashamed and embarrassed to have this on one of their PPVs. This calibre of fight belongs on BET.

[STAX ON DECK]

I love people who say that Ward needs a few easy fights before getting back to fighting monsters like Kovalev. Well the fact of the matter is this...

WARD NEVER IN HIS LIFE FACED ANYONE CLOSE TO KOVALEV!!!

Fighting these total sacrificial lambs will NOT prepare him for Kovalev or Beterbiev or Stevenson or ANY LHW fighter. This fight is a farce and HBO should be ashamed and embarrassed to have this on one of their PPVs. This calibre of fight belongs on BET.

60% of the voters seem to disagree with you,look at at the poll ward might get tested