Comments Thread For: Ward: I Don't Deserve Kovalev Unless I Perform With Barrera

[!! Shawn]

Maybe you're right, but he just doesn't look like a light heavy to me. By comparison Kovalev structurally looks much bigger to me. Ward is good enough that maybe Kovalev never touches him, but Kovalev can definitely hurt him.

If hopkins could last, there is no reason to think Andre wont. Ward has a bigger frame than Hopkins as well. Just seeing him in the ring now. Andre doesn't even look fully filled out at light heavy coming in at 185...

[krazyn8tive]

So happy to hear that.

It warms my heart when I hear that ignorant people are unhappy AND broke.

I got money. Scared money makes zero money.

[PunchyPotorff]

Its just sad that idiot fux like this infest the boxing world today and pose themselves as hardcore fight fans. They would much rather accuse someone of ducking till the end of time, instead of facing the buzz kill of one of their favs losing.

So you don't find Ward's fights boring? Here's a good test: Watch a Ward fight without HBO's commentators doing their incessant gushing over him. Yeah, Ward is a great boxer, just boring. And newsflash: I'm not the first to make that observation. I wanna see Ward in a dangerous situation, knocked down hard, see how he handles the adversity. See if he passes the BIG tests. Don't you?

[PunchyPotorff]

His HBO contract says that he 'has to' fight Kovalev. So none of your childish fantasies mean a damn thing. The fight is happening, face the reality.

You were hoping Ward would duck so you can hold onto something to legitimise your hate, but now you're frustrated and lashing out because he made you eat your words. I bet you're also one of those that said Wilder would never go to Russia, Wilder pushed your **** in too I guess.

Wrong, but hey thanx for the ignorant assumptions. Like I said in the last post, do you not want Ward to get dropped hard, to see how he does? I do. Let's see if he can do anything besides the typical Ward safety first performance. Never said he'd duck Kov. He took too long, but maybe, finally, he'll get into the ring with him. Hope so. Hope he has to dig deep. WTF is wrong with wanting that?

[Buckfever]

If hopkins could last, there is no reason to think Andre wont. Ward has a bigger frame than Hopkins as well. Just seeing him in the ring now. Andre doesn't even look fully filled out at light heavy coming in at 185...

Even yesterday which was a complete master class by Ward, Hunter was saying to Ward, "is this guy even hurting you'"? Admonishing him to be less tentative and open up. He has another whole level when he's not so concerned about getting hurt. And that's the concern with Kovalev, who hits Fn hard.

Same thing happened with Mayweather. If you looked at him at 140 and below he was in there willing to trade and he would just scorch the opposition. But at 147-154 he didn't want to expose himself so much.

I think the problem at 168 is that there isn't the big fight there for him and he's feeling the pressure to take a fight that is defining.

[!! Shawn]

Even yesterday which was a complete master class by Ward, Hunter was saying to Ward, "is this guy even hurting you'"? Admonishing him to be less tentative and open up. He has another whole level when he's not so concerned about getting hurt. And that's the concern with Kovalev, who hits Fn hard.

Same thing happened with Mayweather. If you looked at him at 140 and below he was in there willing to trade and he would just scorch the opposition. But at 147-154 he didn't want to expose himself so much.

I think the problem at 168 is that there isn't the big fight there for him and he's feeling the pressure to take a fight that is defining.

Yesterday was sloppy far from Ward as his best, Hunter was asking him that because Ward WAS getting touched up 10x more than the commentary team lead you to believe. He was eating jabs hard, getting caught with right hands in trades, getting touched to the body HARD.

It was not an easy win for Ward, especially given the level of opponent. Maybe Barrera turns out to be a great fighter in his own right and this win had different context, but as it is now. It was a two steps below where he needs to be at to beat Kovalev, or even GGG for that matter.