Ward is chasing the best!

[Rich2123]

As someone who likes both guys, I like the fact that Ward is moving up. He cleaned out 168, beating Kessler and a future hall of famer in Froch. When you clear your division out, you should move up.

Lets just hope Ward looks good tomorrow! I think he should make easy work of Barrera

[Redd Foxx]

As someone who likes guys, I like the fact that Ward is moving up. He cleaned out 168, beating Kessler and a future hall of famer in Froch. When you clear your division out, you should move up.

Lets just hope Ward looks good tomorrow! I think he should make easy work of Barrera

Oops, might want to fix that.

[Rich2123]

Oops, might want to fix that.

Ha! Yeah, good catch there.

[Ryn0]

Thing is Ward has always fought top comp and wanted the best fighters.....only his new wave of haters say otherwise.....

That entire generation of super middles was great, Froch, Ward, Kessler were the stand outs but they all fought each other.

Can't remember a period where so many of the top 5-10 fighters in a division fought each other one after the other.

[Larry the boss]

That entire generation of super middles was great, Froch, Ward, Kessler were the stand outs but they all fought each other.

Can't remember a period where so many of the top 5-10 fighters in a division fought each other one after the other.

Yea the super 6 really brought all of that to life..Ward made it the hard way..and people forget Kessler was the favorite to win

[Redd Foxx]

That entire generation of super middles was great, Froch, Ward, Kessler were the stand outs but they all fought each other.

Can't remember a period where so many of the top 5-10 fighters in a division fought each other one after the other.

^Yes!^ I've been re-watching a lot of those fights this past month. Sad that less educated fans look at periods like that and think fighters were mediocre because they had losses. Some people here even do it to the fab 4. I could give a fk about someone's '0' against a series of cans but I will watch the most talented getting in there and throwing down with other top guys. Kessler racked up a few losses but it doesn't mean he wasn't an extremely talented guy with a boatload of heart.

[jaded]

I'm not knocking Ward but Bernard Hopkins stepped in to fight Kovalev 2 months shy of his 50th birthday without the least bit of hesitation...I don't see why he deserves so much praise for doing what he's supposed to do if he's a top tier fighter?

[about.thousands]

to someone objective, Ward wanting it after 2 tune ups and 50/50 would negate the fact that GGG wanted it at 164........they're both hypocrites...but of course that goes against their fanboys agendas so they pleasantly ignore each side's argument.

Glad you brought that up because Loeffler's excuse for turning down the fight was that Ward sent the email after the Lemieux fight was signed. When in reality it was the same deal he got with Kovalev. Two fights and they fight in the fall of 2017.

[BKM-]

There's a crowd here that shares this common lie; that Ward ducked Golovkin and will never fight Kovalev. They'd have to be complete idiots to believe that so I don't think that anyone here actually buys that idea. But, they still hide behind it, because it somehow makes them feel safer, as fans.

Meanwhile, the guy is far braver than GG, Canelo, etc, etc because he's actually going after it without fussing, crying to the media, or patting himself on the back.
Class act.

He is patting himself on the back with the whole "I'm chasing greatness by moving up, look at how much courage I have". It's working because people are giving him credit again, something he hasn't deserved in half a decade but he certainly missed it.

[elgu]

That Paul dude he fought in his last fight was surely the best 175 has to offer. So was the guy the NASC wouldn't approve.

The guy is a delusional diva nutjob that wants big bucks for bums. Thankfully HBO put him in his place and told him "No Kovalev, don't bother showing up in our network" otherwise he would still be fighting bums. I'm still waiting to see him pull out of the Kovalev fight.