Comments Thread For: Andre Ward On Fighting Kovalev: “What’s The Rush?”

[NEETzsche]

Why are Golovkin fans rooting for Ward-Kovalev not to happen?

i want it now, not "maybe later"

[Fetta]

I wouldnt mind it now but it is nowhere near a big fight at this moment

[GeneralZod]

No need to rush when you've got 30 cab drivers lined up already.

[Trinidad_Fan]

Ward tried to fight Rohan ****ing Murdock, for crying out loud.
What makes his delusional fans think he wants any part of Kovalev?

And pleeeease don't mention the "t" word (tune-up).
Ward fights once every two years.
At this rate, he'll be ready to fight Kovalev when they're both in their 60's.

Ward is boxing-irrelevant at this point.

[New England]

not particularly happy about the rhetoric, but i'll save my whining for the time when he actually doesn't fight kovalev. if they;re not scheduled for anything by the end of next year it's going to sound a lot like the quacking of a duck.

[UNBIASED BOXING]

The same Ward fans who were screaming for GGG to fight Ward when he has yet to even have a single fight at that weight, and already had a championship fight lined up, are defending this rhetoric in an ironic fashion...

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Is the fight signed or not?

Ward signed a 3 fight deal with HBO which culminates in the Kovalev fight.

[Pocket Dogs!]

I get annoyed when boxers talk about how Floyd and Manny's fight made so much money. Here's the difference, Floyd and Manny were SUPERSTARS. They were household names even if you didn't follow the sport. Casuals don't know Andre Ward or Sergey Kovalev.

[Trinidad_Fan]

Ward signed a 3 fight deal with HBO which culminates in the Kovalev fight.

Is there a timeframe on this deal?
Or is it open-ended, as in "whenever".

[MDPopescu]

not particularly happy about the rhetoric, but i'll save my whining for the time when he actually doesn't fight kovalev. if they;re not scheduled for anything by the end of next year it's going to sound a lot like the quacking of a duck.

... and this would be just 'when'? 'Ward actually not fighting Kovalev', I mean... I guess you didn't truly entertain the idea that there will be a Kovalev fight next fall... Ward called Golovkin for the next spring and you think that Ward really planned to fight Kovalev next fall? You can't be serious...