Comments Thread For: Kovalev's Promoter Frustrated, Expresses Doubt on Ward Fight

[j0zef]

Nah but I lived in the heights for a bit as kid, I still roll with a ton of dominicans.

Did you goto WIHS as well? If you have no idea what I'm talking about, ignore it

[Triple Genius]

Andre Ward can do no wrong. A few weeks ago all Ward fans are saying the deal is done. Now it's that Duva was bull****tin. You can't make this up. Ward the infallible.

[Mr. Luthor]

Promoters generally decide on the venues and that's usually based on the potential revenue. Boxers like Ward and/or Kovalev do not make that decision. Kathy Duva knows this and even said it when she was quoted saying that she and the former Roc Nation exec agreed to the T-Mobile in Las Vegas. Notice she didn't say she made the venue agreement with Ward but now, somehow it's up to Ward? Stop the bs please.

A venue obstacle is really no different than the one Cotto vs Canelo had last year. It'll work itself out.

[Build That Wall]

The fight is happening in America. Deal with it Sergey

[Chrismart]

I think we will get the fight, but this is the exact kind of 'fun and games' lots of people on here expected..yet were criticized for saying so beforehand.

[HeroBando]

I call bull**** in the sense that we've known the exact date for the fight for months. Months. But never have they said where the fight would be. Now suddenly that's been agreed to for a year? So why not state that? All we've known is Russia and Oakland have been excluded. Suddenly tho, T-Mobile areana, an arena that didn't even exist when the talks for this fight started, was agreed upon. I dunno what Duva is working but it sounds like a lot of bull****.

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[TheUndertaker]

What was supposed to be the formal announcement of the November 19th showdown between unified light heavyweight champion, Sergey Kovalev and Andre Ward, at the Target Terrace at LA Live, instead became a rather bizarre scene where it was revealed that the two promotional sides (Main Events and Roc Nation Sports) still have not agreed to all the terms - most notably the venue for this fight.

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This F U C K ing vagina Ward I'm sure wants the fight in S H I T land, his hometown, because that's the only place he can get a BS decision in his favor or have the ref break up the action if the other fighter starts touching Ward too much! Give me a ****ing break Ward, take Canelo's pink panties off and just tell your promoter to sign the fight for Vegas you chicken s h it!

[TheUndertaker]

In the last week Ward compared his promotional time off to Muhammad Ali's war dissent, he compared his skills to RJJ, BHop, and Floyd, his nickname S.O.G. compares himself to Jesus, and in his last fight he was seen trashing talking a 100-to-1 underdog.

So I got one question for you, are you on crack? This dude is not humble. And at the end of the day, all of that is just extra stuff. You're right people do bring up Floyd's bad behavior as a reason they don't like him, but that's a secondary argument on top of the main one that he's a boring a** fighter. It's just to preempt the arguments of other people who have racial bias and are full of ****. If you just say he's a boring fighter, racially biased fans will say "well I like his personality, I like his style, and Pacquiao gambled a lot, so I want to see a gambler lose," or some bullisht like that. So people just make the point that not only is he boring in the ring, he's also an ******* outside of the ring, so there is literally no reason to like him inside the ring or out. That's the only reason people bring up his outside the ring behavior. To completely close out the argument by showing that there's nothing to root for on any level, inside the ring or out, which exposes all his fans as just biased people.

With Ward he's very likeable outside of the ring sometimes, like his down to earth interview with HBO talking about his family, and he's very unlikeable at other times when his ****iness comes through, but all of that is mostly irrelevant next to the fact that he is the most boring fighter to watch in the sport that gets regular air time.

For example, Connor Mcregor is ****y like Floyd outside of the ring, but he fights in wars, fights everyone the fans want him to, jumps up 25 pounds in weight overnight, and has an extremely entertaining style, so of course he has fans, because at the end of the day people watch the sport to watch the sport, not to follow TMZ outside the ring or the octagon.

Why do people even have to explain this to you? Did you just never think about this yourself? Fans dislike Floyd and Ward, two of the most boring fighters in the sport, but your mind immediately jumps to the conclusion that it's because of race? That just shows how racially biased you are because if you weren't, you would be as bored by their fights as everyone else who doesn't have a rooting interest specifically in black fighters, and you would know that's the reason no one likes them, not race.

It's like with me and Rigondeaux. Most people thought his fight with Donaire was boring, but I was really sick of Donaire at the time and really wanted him to lose, so the fight was suspenseful for me and entertaining, and I watched it multiple times. But that is only because I had a rooting interest. If I was just a neutral, a low action fight like that would have been boring as hell. Very little happened most rounds.

It's the same with you and Floyd and Ward. How can you not see that? You're dying to see them win because they're black I guess, and they're really good at winning, so every time they fight, you're super entertained watching your guys dominate their opponents, even if their opponents suck. You like watching your team win, just like fans of NFL teams like watching their teams in a blowout, or Barcelona fans will watch them school an MLS team 7-0 in a friendly match just because it's fun to watch their players score a bunch of goals.

What you have to understand is most boxing fans aren't like you. They're not just going to root for boring fighters, who never fight in competitive fights, because they're black. I guess you do, so you think that's entertaining, but if you didn't, you wouldn't, and most people don't.

Now that you understand that, hopefully you understand that's the reason people don't like Ward. If you don't have a rooting interest, he's boring as **** to watch. I can attest to that. Maybe you never got that before, because you do have a rooting interest, but I'm telling you now, for boxing fans who don't, which is almost all of them, he's boring as **** no matter what styles you like, because he's always in mismatches, and he holds a lot, and has a low output. Period.

Couldn't have said it better myself! Ward is, always was and always will be boring as **** and scared to fight outside of Oakland! I'll be surprised IF and that's a big IF he shows up for the Kovalev fight outside of Oakland!

[Weebler I]

The fight is happening in America. Deal with it Sergey

It might not happen at all.

I wonder if Kovalev might fight Braehmer if Ward refuses to fight. The WBA ordered it last month before retracting.

[turnedup]

Did you goto WIHS as well? If you have no idea what I'm talking about, ignore it

Washington Irving High School? If so nah. I played ball for Brandeis on the upper west side off Columbus ave.