Comments Thread For: Barrera's Manager Feels Andre Ward Being Caught at Right Time

[daggum]

barrera is trying to cherry pick andre ward style. this is ironic

[churchmouse]

I hope Barrera beats Ward and puts an end to that bandwagon.

[aboutfkntime]

I hope Barrera beats Ward and puts an end to that bandwagon.

bandwagon
ˈbandwaɡən/
noun
noun: bandwagon; plural noun: bandwagons

An activity or cause that has suddenly become fashionable or popular.


2001 United States Amateur Middleweight Champion
2002 Under 19 National Championship
2003 United States Amateur Light Heavyweight Champion
2004 Won LHW gold medal for the US at the 2004 Olympics in Athens

Super-6 champion.

Undefeated.

Elite - P4P.

Are you really sure you know what you are talking about ?

Dude, seeing that you raised the subject of bandwagon, I gotta ask..... are you a Golovkin fan by any chance?

[CubanGuyNYC]

Ward fought in June 2015 and looked as sharp if not sharper than he did before the Layoff. Fighters don't lose skills because of Layoffs. I would think activity and Punishment is what diminishes a fighter over the years.

These guys been boxing all of their damn Lives, no way 2-3 years off is going to somehow make them forget how to fight. If anything he has a huge advantage over potential opponents because during that Layoff he been able to scout and study them since he calls fights for HBO

Skills erode if a fighter is inactive for too long. Timing is lost. It all falls under the general umbrella of "ring rust." Of course, a top fighter doesn't forget how to fight; but at higher levels, inactivity can cost him. You never forget how to ride a bike; but given enough time, you simply cannot expect to pull off the same tricks you used to until you get in enough practice. That goes for everything in life.

[US Dirk Killer]

REKT

[Teetotaler]

it would suck for kovalev if Barrera beat ward. No point of fighting ward after losing to barrera. I have a feeling ward would prefer to lost to barrera than kovalev

[sicko]

Skills erode if a fighter is inactive for too long. Timing is lost. It all falls under the general umbrella of "ring rust." Of course, a top fighter doesn't forget how to fight; but at higher levels, inactivity can cost him. You never forget how to ride a bike; but given enough time, you simply cannot expect to pull off the same tricks you used to until you get in enough practice. That goes for everything in life.

Yeah of course but 2-3 years is not long enough to "Erode Boxing Skills" in a guy who is still fairly young and who haven't taken any serious punishment in this sport

[sicko]

REKT

that is hilarious

[ShoulderRoll]

Given Ward's inactivity and the rise to a new weight class there are some questions about him.

Barrera is big, strong, and skilled. He will put Andre to the test so we are going to get some answers to those questions one way or the other.

[goldenbear]

Ring rust won't be an issue

The reality is if you had a great training camp ring rust shouldn't be an issue. Mayweather, Hopkins, Pac, Marquez etc. The greats and I believe Ward is a great don't show ring rust because they put in such work and fight high level people in camp you don't see it on fight night.