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

[M Bison]

never heard of him. Anybody seen him fight? Is he a Salka level opponent?

[Deevel916]

Fighting Rohan when he should be fighting Gohan.

I'd rather see him fight the Zohan

[NEETzsche]

surely this isn't going to be higher on the bill than miura-vargas or even caballero-haskins?

[DLX]

you sound slow....who is gonna come back after being relatively inactive 3 years and having major shoulder surgery without a few tune ups


some of you guys really don't know much about boxing. Its not often people fight a high profile fight after a long lay off and when they have they usually lose because they haven't got their footing back



Have some common sense

He has had 2 fights since the surgery. PAY ATTENTION. And it hasn't been a long layoff, he fought in JUNE. This will be the third tune up. Show me anytime a champion has taken 3 tuneups? I'll wait.

[xhiddenx87]

Its called rebuilding your brand, and knocking off ring rust


I cant understand why people act like this man didn't have an injured shoulder, surgery, and promo issues the last few years


He paid his dues, we know he is world class but he is with a new company and has to make some new momentum to get big fights......duh



I bet its a sigh of relieve for GGG fanatics that he may be removing up to 168.....pheeeeew

Man and then you call GGG's fans to be on the defensive.

if this is the fight that ward choose, then we need to call it as it is, some real SHI.T!

I did the same with the 164 CW offer from GGG.

And I'm a GGG supporter.

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.

thats right, better not do that.

and what if Ward fight Kovalev, thats a huge success for both fighters, but what has to do GGG in there? nothing right?


Ahh right he ducked doe...pfff..


I've always wanted to see that fight but if it don't happens, I can move on.

I hope GGG unifies ASAP and then move up to SW. Then we could see a good fight there with Ward being the bigger man.

[MDPopescu]

A lot of Ward fans have been hating on Golovkin (for facing Lemeiux) and Kovalev (for a potential Pascal rematch) this weekend.
'Murdock is cool though. He needs the tune-ups doe. It's the start of the road to Ward Vs Kovalev doe.'

It's a step down from Paul Smith, in the time Ward's team as had, you'd hope they could of found a better opponent. Tune-up fight or not.

Now, let's put it like this: who (of some relevance) would have taken a fight with Ward on a month short notice? Nobody, of course...
... It seems that Ward had to work hard in order to get that HBO deal, in case he actually did get a deal...

... as about Ward fighting Kovalev next fall: you never know... Maybe Kovalev gets somehow 'destroyed' until then... Maybe Ward decides to stay at 168 or maybe he suffers some sort of an injury or some promotional issues may occur... a.s.o.

[BattlingNelson]

It's his second tuneup, that's not unheard of. The quality of the opponent is what I take exception to.

Ward should be fighting a top 25 LHW for this fight. He's more than capable and has more to gain by fighting a better quality opponent.

I was referring to the 3-4 tuneups he allegedly has wanted and yes. This fight is lame. It's a step Down from Paul Smith who was the no. 4 SMW in England fighting at cruiserweight.

[j0zef]

This is a disgrace to boxing. I never liked Ward's personality or his boxing style, but I respected him as a boxer. Not after a stunt like this.

It's gotta be a joke.

[LacedUp]

Is this actually serious?

Is this another 200k average rating on BET?

[SN!PER]

Ward's team decided he needed more knockouts to make him marketable.