Comments Thread For: Andre Ward Officially Vacates WBA Belt, Full Focus on 175

[Superbee]

Come on man..... anyone with a punch just blows Ward out right?

Nope... Boxers with a punch and skills have an advantage over skills and a weaker punch... Simple math...Ward has passed his prime and has clearly showed a lack of motivation in recent years...

Despite my total absence of knowledge, I still believe he doesn't stand a chance against Stevenson, even less against Kovalev or Beterbiev... But that's just me...

[Lou Cipher]

Andre Turd still running from GGG

[TripleGFightFan]

Why would the wba super champ fight at a cw 164lbs but lil g fight others at full 168 with no title on line?

Exactly...that's totally unfair and this is coming from a Triple G fan...even Triple G wouldn't have taken that deal!...

[MDPopescu]

Nope... Boxers with a punch and skills have an advantage over skills and a weaker punch... Simple math...Ward has passed his prime and has clearly showed a lack of motivation in recent years...

Despite my total absence of knowledge, I still believe he doesn't stand a chance against Stevenson, even less against Kovalev or Beterbiev... But that's just me...

... it isn't just you ................................................

[New England]

Certain fans have collectively breathed a sigh of relief.

golovkin fans / white boyz doe

[aboutfkntime]

Nope... Boxers with a punch and skills have an advantage over skills and a weaker punch... Simple math...Ward has passed his prime and has clearly showed a lack of motivation in recent years...

Despite my total absence of knowledge, I still believe he doesn't stand a chance against Stevenson, even less against Kovalev or Beterbiev... But that's just me...

I think so too.

[therealpugilist]

golovkin fans / white boyz doe

Its funny....GGG a monster but they have little faith that he'd beat Ward, but are watering at the mouth over him fighting a past prime Froch, who has fought in a year and a fighter Ward beat years ago

Not much faith in LIL G

[nacho daddy]

Its funny....GGG a monster but they have little faith that he'd beat Ward, but are watering at the mouth over him fighting a past prime Froch, who has fought in a year and a fighter Ward beat years ago

Not much faith in LIL G

do you think that a MW can beat a CW?? If I was GGG I would be screaming every day for mental ward at 160

[Jubei]

Its funny....GGG a monster but they have little faith that he'd beat Ward, but are watering at the mouth over him fighting a past prime Froch, who has fought in a year and a fighter Ward beat years ago

Not much faith in LIL G

Huh? Didnt GGG call out Ward twice and Ward passed on the fight?

Now after he realized he cant make 168 in 2 years he blames the "fans" and boxing politics to make him move up to 175.

The guy outgrew 168 and whenever he had the chance to fight GGG he kept quiet or had excuses. If Ward was a real fighter he had fought GGG when HBO asked them both. Who was ready and who wasnt?

[Grimmer]

Generally mandatories for the WBA Super belt aren't called, as it's supposed to allow their champions to go and unify. The WBA regular has mandatories, but it's rare that a Super champ is forced to face the Regular champ. I.E Rigo was never mandated to fight Quigg. Kovalev hasn't been mandated to fight Braehmer. Golovkin hasn't been mandated to fight Jacobs. Sturm wasn't mandated to fight GGG (although Daniel Geale was after he beat Sturm, he refused and fought Mundine instead and the WBA stripped him. Until Rigo recently he was the last one to be stripped as far as I can recall). Wlad was mandated to fight Povetkin I think.

And of course Ward was not mandated to fight Froch, it appears Froch was mandated to fight Ward, which is why he got stripped and not Ward too.


Basically, it's a clusterfūck, there's no consistent precedent set on when a Super champ has to fight the regular champ. There's no precedent set either on when a fight should become a Super Champ, sometimes it's when they've unified, or when they've defended the belt several times, or in Adrien Broner's case after winning the vacant regular belt a month ago and not having a single defence.

Then there's the shambles of having an Interim champ too, and even recently in the middleweight division an interim interim-champ (I'm not kidding).

It's actually laughable