Comments Thread For: Shakur Stevenson To Be Managed By James Prince, Andre Ward

[aboutfkntime]

Well, on one hand, Ward is the most recent highly decorated amateur that can relate to Stevenson. On the other hand, he's a notoriously difficult person to work with.

Personally, he would have been better with Ward as an advisor rather than a promoter.

Ward is not a promoter.

[aboutfkntime]

Mayweather didn't land Garcia or Stevenson

he had his eye on both of those guys at one stage

[Kigali]

I see Shakur going to the Andre Ward school of business, fighting a couple times a year, maybe

I see you're starting to hate already.

[r1onnie2]

Well, on one hand, Ward is the most recent highly decorated amateur that can relate to Stevenson. On the other hand, he's a notoriously difficult person to work with.

Personally, he would have been better with Ward as an advisor rather than a promoter.

Ward isn't going to be his promoter rather part of his management team. They are still looking for a promotion company for Stevenson.

[MC Hammer]

Well, on one hand, Ward is the most recent highly decorated amateur that can relate to Stevenson. On the other hand, he's a notoriously difficult person to work with.

Personally, he would have been better with Ward as an advisor rather than a promoter.

I don't know if anyone has replied yet, but Ward isn't going to promote him; Ward is part of a management group which are representing him. It seems a good fit, keeping Stevens near clean-cut people who have experience and Ward having it on the Olympic/pro success side.

[Scipio2009]

That is the key. Roc Nation has invested heavily in a few boxers but they have not invested in boxing. They do not put on monthly shows or anything where a prospect can have 8 fights in a year or something. They can easily put Stevenson on other promoters' shows but that probably isn't the right way to build a star product.

Andre Ward is a TV free agent; the rematch with Kovalev was an option written into their bout agreement, but he's under no further obligation to HBO. You add that Ward did have nearly 10 fights aired by Showtime, the vast majority of the top viable names for him are working with Showtime, and Showtime is openly investing in boxing (compared to HBO who are not), and the idea of going to Showtime isn't far fetched.

Floyd's move to Showtime was not only able to secure him a home for his final 6 PPVs, it also secured him televised dates for his Mayweather Promotions on ShoBox.

Andre Ward is 32 years old; signing a three-year deal with Showtime (with Ward getting as many fights as he can manage under that time window) isn't unheard of, and I don't doubt that Roc Nation would be able to secure a solid number of ShoBox dates to go along with that (3 ShoBox dates per year isn't crazy).

Between Ward's fights, whatever final dates that Miguel Cotto has, the possible ShoBox dates from moving Ward over, and the potential dates that could come with the emergence of a guy like Dusty Harrison-Hernandez, Shakur Stevenson should be able to be kept as active as he wants.

[Scipio2009]

I see Shakur going to the Andre Ward school of business, fighting a couple times a year, maybe

Andre Ward debuted December 2004, fought 6 fights in 2005, and then basically settled into fight 3-4 times a year from then on out.

hilarious to see so many folks still salty.

[Illmatic94]

Floyd takes the L here, he was going after Shakur real hard.

[anonymous2.0]

Andre Ward debuted December 2004, fought 6 fights in 2005, and then basically settled into fight 3-4 times a year from then on out.

hilarious to see so many folks still salty.

2010
Allen Green
Sakio Bika

2011
Arthur Abraham
Carl Froch

2012
Chad Dawson

2013
Edwin Rodriguez

2014
Gap Year

2015
Paul Smith



2012-2015 were not Ward's Golden Years for sure. Part of that was his fault for not taking several fights Goosen offered him and then tried suing Goosen for not giving him fights. The Andre Ward School of Business is a meme.

[TheCell8]

Lol Floyd just took another huge L.

He courted both Mikey and Shakur and they both said no. That should tell you about what others think about Mayweather promotions that he can't even secure the top two 'free agents' in the sport.