Comments Thread For: Andre Ward: My Skills Never Left, I'm Feeling Better Than Ever

[therealpugilist]

This guys hasnt won a meaningful fight in 4 years . Every fight after the froch fight was showcasing garbage vs dead men walking.

How he is ranked p4p based off that is one of the reasons boxing is failing in the public eye.

Kovalevs level of opposition has been much better and it will show on fight night.

GGG hasnt his entire career.....he is still hyped to the heavens lol

[MDPopescu]

Be as slippery as possible, but don't give him room = stay inside, stay away from his punches, slip, block like he did versus Froch and Allen. He didn't give them any room to extend themselves

... by "Allen" you mean Allen Green, right?... I see...

[NaijaD]

... I said it here: I don't like Russians at all... never did, never will...

... but your actual problem, there in the U.S., is that you really don't understand the "Russian school of boxing"...

[Wait: in fact some do have some idea as long as nobody from the Americas actually wants to fight Golovkin...]

I'm from the UK..... I'm just saying that I hope "cats" like you will still hold Kovalev as high as you do now after the fight if he loses. I don't want to hear how he's not the top Russian school product but Golovkin is.

[yngwie]

Ward is not really that skillful to begin with. He's not the fastest, not the biggest puncher, dosent have much of a right hand, not the best punch selection and a shaky chin. His best punch is either the jab or a short left hook coming off the break almost like a sucker punch. He dosent have a deep tool box to choose from, he just has his few weapons and he makes it work for himself. His strengths are his mental toughness, physical strength, endurance, timing, and probably his best asset is his ability to make adjustments on the fly.

Wtf?
You can hate Ward if you want, but he is clearly the most skilled boxer today, he looks like the Kasparov of the ring, but considering that you probably wouldn't apreciate Kasparov, i get that you don't apreciate the skill of Ward.

[Madison Boxing]

This guys hasnt won a meaningful fight in 4 years . Every fight after the froch fight was showcasing garbage vs dead men walking.

How he is ranked p4p based off that is one of the reasons boxing is failing in the public eye.

Kovalevs level of opposition has been much better and it will show on fight night.

spot on.... going to be a lot of posters deleting comments and making out they thought kovalev was going to win

[Madison Boxing]

Wtf?
You can hate Ward if you want, but he is clearly the most skilled boxer today, he looks like the Kasparov of the ring, but considering that you probably wouldn't apreciate Kasparov, i get that you don't apreciate the skill of Ward.

hes not that skillful really, compared to someone like loma and rigo with their technique. Mayweather was lightyears ahead. Crawford probably better technically, usyk maybe too

[yngwie]

hes not that skillful really, compared to someone like loma and rigo with their technique. Mayweather was lightyears ahead. Crawford probably better technically, usyk maybe too

Ward maybe isn't as flashy as them, but he does thinks that not many people does.

[ruedboy]

BMI?? I hope he didn't work out what class he should be in due to BMI.

Depending on what point of camp a boxer is in, he could jump from the extreme lows to extreme highs. Much better than ways to work weight out than BMI.

NPR has a good piece, " Top 10 Reasons Why BMI Is Bogus". Basically BMI is meaningless when applied to a lean, fit athlete because the 200 year old formula assumes a sedentary person with low muscle mass and high fat content.

[Dean_Razorback]

GGG hasnt his entire career.....he is still hyped to the heavens lol

what does GGG has to do with this thread? is about ward and his upcoming fight vs Kovalev. how is that statement wrong? ward hasn't won a meaningful fight in 4 years. then posters like you accuse others of deflecting and not staying on topic

[Kigali]

what does GGG has to do with this thread? is about ward and his upcoming fight vs Kovalev. how is that statement wrong? ward hasn't won a meaningful fight in 4 years. then posters like you accuse others of deflecting and not staying on topic

Look how he defends GGG...dear lord you'd think his name were Gennady Gonzalez instead of Golovkin.

Kovalev's most meaningful fight was against a 50 y/o with ZERO offense.