andres ward opens up on various topics including racism in boxing,kovalev,GGG being🐓

[firstborn]

Obviously, Ward ENVIES Golovkin because he's everything Ward wants to be but is not.

1) GGG doesn't need to use illegal tactics like head butts
2) GGG wants to fight four times a year
3) GGG is an exciting boxer who doesn't constantly grapple and clamp his opponents arms
4) GGG came to a new country and EARNED his popularity, and is a courageous Ring Warrior who fights all over the world. Prima donna Ward refused to fight outside the USA during the Super Six.

Ward is supposed to be the Son of God, but isn't ENVY is one of the seven deadly sins?

I agree with the bold, the rest is your usual subjective Ward babble.

[firstborn]

Obviously, Ward ENVIES Golovkin because he's everything Ward wants to be but is not.

1) GGG doesn't need to use illegal tactics like head butts
2) GGG wants to fight four times a year
3) GGG is an exciting boxer who doesn't constantly grapple and clamp his opponents arms
4) GGG came to a new country and EARNED his popularity, and is a courageous Ring Warrior who fights all over the world. Prima donna Ward refused to fight outside the USA during the Super Six.

Ward is supposed to be the Son of God, but isn't ENVY is one of the seven deadly sins?

I agree with the bold, the rest is your usual subjective Ward babble.

[Cuban Linx]

That was a really good series of interviews, I watched like the whole 50 minutes of it. It helps that Ward speaks so well and elaborates on questions as opposed to just giving like 3 sentence long answers.

[deanrw]

Golovkin has no proof that Ward was "hesitation." Golovkin won't fight Ward at 168 without a catch weight. But he'll fight Chavez jr and Froch without one.It's that simple. This isn't a 50/50 situation at all.

We all saw the article where GGG stated he was ready and Ward was not. Ward never disputed it. They both have ammo from different points of time where it was brought up. Both of them at different times wanted it and then did not want it. It has nothing to do with being chicken or whatever. They just could not find even ground they both liked.

[JStill Unbiased]

What has always puzzled me about boxing fans is their flat out refusal to admit there is a lot of racism in the sport. This is a sport where we root for fighters based on race, nationality, ethnicity, ect... The fight today is being promoted as Mexico vs Puerto Rico. But for some reason boxing fans thinks it stops outside the ring....

Kovalev and Stevenson is the perfect example of racism and double standards. Kovalev has has numerous instances of racism, including but not limited to calling an opponent a "thoroughbred *******". Then he compared Stevenson to a chimp and people made excuses from "That's the way he was raised" to "He's not from here he didn't know that was offensive". I"m not from Russia and have never lived there but I have enough sense not to go around calling them drunk Ruskies. Comparing black people to monkey's is a no-no worldwide, not just in America. And even it it was only in America, he's been living here long enough to know it's wrong.

At 21 y/o Stevenson committed a horrible crime in which he was convicted, sentenced, and did his time. He's admitted what he did was wrong. He got out of prison and dedicated himself to boxing and hasn't been in trouble in 17 years. I'll give a 21 year old who has been in gangs since he was a teen more leeway than a 32 year old who is still being racist. Yet we still see people calling Stevenson a pimp, criminal and whatever else. He should be looked at as the American/Canadian dream. A man who made bad decisions as a teen and turned his life around. If people can't see the racism in the way the two are treated they're in denial.

I couldn't agree with you more

[Real King Kong]

I have the email right here in my phone, i can show it to you right now...but im not going to. They turned the fight down in 5 min.

Starting to sound like rhetoric.

[Bigg Rigg]

My biggest problem with stuff like this is black ppl themselves don't like soft spoken black fighters. Black ppl on my block don't care for guys like Mosley and Ward, they like Floyd and Broner. Thrash the type of guy they like so I don't wanna hear Ward blame anyone because his own ppl are the biggest to blame.

[Bigg Rigg]

What has always puzzled me about boxing fans is their flat out refusal to admit there is a lot of racism in the sport. This is a sport where we root for fighters based on race, nationality, ethnicity, ect... The fight today is being promoted as Mexico vs Puerto Rico. But for some reason boxing fans thinks it stops outside the ring....

Kovalev and Stevenson is the perfect example of racism and double standards. Kovalev has has numerous instances of racism, including but not limited to calling an opponent a "thoroughbred *******". Then he compared Stevenson to a chimp and people made excuses from "That's the way he was raised" to "He's not from here he didn't know that was offensive". I"m not from Russia and have never lived there but I have enough sense not to go around calling them drunk Ruskies. Comparing black people to monkey's is a no-no worldwide, not just in America. And even it it was only in America, he's been living here long enough to know it's wrong.

At 21 y/o Stevenson committed a horrible crime in which he was convicted, sentenced, and did his time. He's admitted what he did was wrong. He got out of prison and dedicated himself to boxing and hasn't been in trouble in 17 years. I'll give a 21 year old who has been in gangs since he was a teen more leeway than a 32 year old who is still being racist. Yet we still see people calling Stevenson a pimp, criminal and whatever else. He should be looked at as the American/Canadian dream. A man who made bad decisions as a teen and turned his life around. If people can't see the racism in the way the two are treated they're in denial.

Adonis does look like a chimp though. Lol I'm sorry he does. Had he Sergey called Pascal a monkey, I would have been like nah, this dude is racist. Stevenson though actually looks like one. And by your take on racial jabs being throw around, I'm sure you will admit that Bernard Hopkins is also racist too right??

[STAX ON DECK]

My biggest problem with stuff like this is black ppl themselves don't like soft spoken black fighters. Black ppl on my block don't care for guys like Mosley and Ward, they like Floyd and Broner. Thrash the type of guy they like so I don't wanna hear Ward blame anyone because his own ppl are the biggest to blame.

maybe if the general american public(whites) got behind them just as much as they did pacuqiao then there would be more love all around for the soft spoken african merican fighter. black fighters know from the get-go that they need to put on the black hat and be the villain to make decent money in boxing

i mean look at wilder,high KO % but they wont get behind him like they did ggg,kovalve,matthyses

[firstborn]

My biggest problem with stuff like this is black ppl themselves don't like soft spoken black fighters. Black ppl on my block don't care for guys like Mosley and Ward, they like Floyd and Broner. Thrash the type of guy they like so I don't wanna hear Ward blame anyone because his own ppl are the biggest to blame.

No offense but your comment sounds ridiculous. A few black people on your block represent an entire group of people....really. Furthermore, whats the deal with certain people on this forum suddenly becoming experts on black culture?