Comments Thread For: Andre Ward: Russians on Our Turf Trying To Take What We Have!

[therealpugilist]

okay, everyone loves americans and noones interested in europeans but the biggest fight in the sport to be made is a european v mexican, GGG v canelo

....,GGG is not european.......he is from central asia....stop reaching bro


if eastern europeans were so popular and dominant, you wouldnt claim GGG who clearly is not european nor is where is born or where he represented his country in the olympics


The biggest fight fans care about is Ward vs Kov

[Godsfly]

More like the other way around... Getting too confident in your abilities can end in a disaster.

But this version of Ward is simply gonna hype the fight up. I don't blame him, this is the best fight we've had in over a decade

it's a difference........getting too confident in your abilities and fighting like it will get u in trouble. but setting your mind up mentally that u are gonna win this fight is always the right thing to do in boxing. boxing is very mental. ward is doing the later..........

[g27region]

why is it that american fighters like "crawford" fans are hell bent on turning them into villains? when crawford first came out he was one of the most humble kids around. fans wanted to see him as a villain, he eventually embraced it. ward was one of the most humble kids around. fans wanted him to be a villain so he said **** it. even spence is still as humbled as they come & u have people reaching to turn him into a villain now. the same isn't applied to kovalov even though kovalov have said some pretty ****ed up crap.......kovalov is more of a fierce hero in the minds of many.

You need to ask Crawford or Ward fans why they want to see their favorite boxers turn into villians. Maybe they think that will help them to attract more fans. Some people want Golovkin to stop with that nice guy persona too. But for me, the fact that Crawford is a humble person is the reason why I've been rooting for him and why he's one of my favorites. So if these boxing fans want to see their fighters being ignorant and arrogant, talking trash, that means there's something wrong with these fans.

That's not related to the topic, I thought Andre Ward won't be trying to make boxing look like some political stuff but that's what he's doing now. And I'm sure that some ******s will be hyping his fight with Kovalev like it's "Cold war 2.0" or some ****** **** like that

He's hyping the fight up. Let him be.

I thought Andre Ward is above turning a pro boxing into some political thing. It should be about respectful competition

[Madison Boxing]

....,GGG is not european.......he is from central asia....stop reaching bro


if eastern europeans were so popular and dominant, you wouldnt claim GGG who clearly is not european nor is where is born or where he represented his country in the olympics


The biggest fight fans care about is Ward vs Kov

dont know if you understand geography or what but kazakhstan is transcontinental much the same way russia is

[New England]

97k wasnt exactly ground breaking....whats your point....no eastern european fighters are doing huge ppv, network viewership,etc

Maybe certain fans of european descent in america are excited about eastern europeans having success lately on the world level but it is not reflecting in $$$$ or views.

whats your point?

golovkin is one of the most popular fighters on american TV right now, and 97K has been debunked as being off by as much as 50%. not sure hwy anybody other than a fanboy with an agenda would continue to cite a bogus statistic. the guy is extremely popular. your agenda is so strong that you have to try and dispute that?


golovkin isn't even european. he's from Kazakhstan, which is so asian [so far west if you're coming from europe] that it actually borders china. the city where golovkin was born actually lines up longitudinally with the border of india.


you can look at his TV ratings from last year and from this year and see for yourself that he's the most popular, active fighter in america not named canelo or manny, and this is with his best challengers running for the hills to duck him.

[NaijaD]

and you idiots saying its not racist, yes it is. In any other job would you be allowed to say' russians are coming over and trying to take what we have' its anti immigration and absolutely pathetic from ward, if someone like tyson fury said that about a minority ethnic group imagine the uproar.

He never said anything hateful and degrading about Eastern Europeans, he simply said they have been taking the spotlight more recently.... How you read what he said and concluded it to be racism is concerning. My hope is that you're doing your usual Anti-Ward rounds on the forum like a dedicated G-tard... If you are then bravo. If you're being serious then you are unbelievably daft.

[MDPopescu]

... Well: the only problem with the U.S. pro-boxers is that they would like to be cheered as "World Champions" the same way the U.S. "American football" players are...

[Boxing Logic]

When I read the headline I was like "oh isht here we go! Ward learning to do that trash talk! Hyping **** up! Getting the hatred flowing!"

Then I read the interview... same old respectful Ward. Which I appreciate. I'd appreciate it more if his ****y behavior at other times didn't make it feel phony, but anyway. Point is, this headline is misleading.

[Boxing Logic]

I agree. And they will clearly do whatever it is to take the win, even steroids lol the entire country was flagged because everyone was juicing. For the sake of sports, they better use Vada because thats no regular fighter wards going against. We won the cold war anyways in 1989 lol so 1-0 Merica lol

Dude. You still think real life is a Rocky movie? You think Russians are juicing but Americans aren't? IMO every top fighter in the sport, there is a better chance than not that they're juicing. Including Ward. Including fighters I like, such as GGG and Kovalev. I don't want to believe it with GGG especially, his style is so pure, he's so laid back and chill, no roid rage at all, his body looks so healthy. But we just have to be realistic, it's 2016, it's a sport dominated by PEDs, and GGG is dominating the sport that is dominated by PEDs, so does it make sense to believe he's dominating a sport dominated by PEDs without using PEDs himself?

But who knows. Maybe he's just that special. Maybe Kovalev and Ward are just that special. Who knows. There's no way to know. But don't buy that bullisht that it's just Russian fighters. It's not. It's just Russian fighters aren't protected like western fighters so they get caught. It's the same as politics man, watch CNN. The U.S. invades all these countries in the middle east and they're the good guys, no one can say isht about it. Russia annexes one little spot, Crimea, which is majority Russian and something many say they had no choice but to do tactically because the western countries kept infringing building military bases all around them, putting missiles all around them, and they're the evil invaders.

Anything bad Russia does, they get caught, they get criticized. Anything bad the U.S. does, it gets swept under the rug. That's basically how it works with sports, too. Stay woke brother.

[therealpugilist]

golovkin is one of the most popular fighters on american TV right now, and 97K has been debunked as being off by as much as 50%. not sure hwy anybody other than a fanboy with an agenda would continue to cite a bogus statistic. the guy is extremely popular. your agenda is so strong that you have to try and dispute that?


golovkin isn't even european. he's from Kazakhstan, which is so asian [so far west if you're coming from europe] that it actually borders china. the city where golovkin was born actually lines up longitudinally with the border of india.


you can look at his TV ratings from last year and from this year and see for yourself that he's the most popular, active fighter in america not named canelo or manny, and this is with his best challengers running for the hills to duck him.

i never said he was european...idiot posters on this site do though