Andre Ward showed a lot of ring rust

[Shpacman]

He is mush clower, much less sharp, has worse footwork that 4 years ago. Seriously, Kovalev would smash tonight's version of Ward in 4 rounds.

[Poloro87]

Well this is his first fight since June of last year at a new weight against a cuban and he dominates the fight. He's working on changing his style to were he fights on the inside and slips punches without unnecessary movement. Ward and Hunter will have a completely different gameplan for Kovalev. He should take another fight in June and he will be much sharper by November.

[Boxingwizard]

It's just ring-rust he simply will shake it off in his next fight and he did get 12 good rounds in.

I thought the fight was much closer than how Letterman scored the fight. Ward could have been more aggressive especially in the later rounds rounds. But he did win convincingly.

[Beercules]

He looked old as hell.

[Guest]

He is mush clower, much less sharp, has worse footwork that 4 years ago. Seriously, Kovalev would smash tonight's version of Ward in 4 rounds.

I'm glad someone made this thread. There certainly hasn't been another 387 threads on the exact same subject that you could have posted this in.

Well done you.

[Beercules]

I'm glad someone made this thread. There certainly hasn't been another 387 threads on the exact same subject that you could have posted this in.

Well done you.

[Guest]

Jesus, you're a sarcastic **** sometimes.

[soul_survivor]

I dunno, Ward looked pretty good to me. He was never a finished, no version of Ward would have stopped Barrera. But he did win every round, got dirty, got his head in close (lol) and jabbed, right hand, clinched his way to a win.

I will admit he moved back against the ropes more often than he normally would have.

But hey, let Ward have 3 more tune up across 5 years, War Ward 2020!!

[hectari]

Ward didn't show any rust, he just showed that he was unsure early, he started picking it up mid fight, and was being more comfortable, it was just the uncertainty of being out so long.

He looked the same to me, what is up with this Flat footed talk, he has never been a dancer in the ring, he moved the same, and did the same stuff, he holds, clinches in close, knows when to bounce out, etc.

He was just more tentative early which comes with not being in the ring for a while. He was training when he wasnt fighting so he had no ring rust.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

i counted less than 100 clinches...he was definitely rusty