Ward: Most overrated/underrated win

[mani1]

Carl paper champ Froch as no body really rates the Dawson win. Kessler, and now obviously Kovelov are much better wins than the vacant 1

[HanzGruber]

yea barerra win is getting underrated, he was ranked top 10 in 3 of the sanctions im pretty sure.. plus he just got this win. it was a solid win

[Madison Boxing]

Clearly you weren't around at the time. Calzaghe and Kessler were #1 and #2, after Calzaghe retired December 2008, Kessler was the best SMW by default. 168 was a hot division with a lot of young hungry fighters. Carl Froch, Olympic Gold medal winner Andre Ward, Olympic Bronze medal winner Andre Dirrell, undefeated Arthur Abraham, and veteran Jermain Taylor.

i was around at the time, watched it all, remember abraham and kessler were favourites, froch was the widest odds to win it i think. You got the veteran bit right when describing taylor, dirrell was a good fighter although he only fought two fights, hed have probably got the final if he stayed active cause i thought he beat froch myself. Ended up a circus, had grandpa johnson involved in it at one point and alan 'bum' green.

[Jc8804]

He cheated kessler.

He robbed kovalev

And he has an official victory over a corpse in drained dawson

His biggest best win fair and square was vs froch who he never wanted to rematch

[bojangles1987]

I'm going to say Froch is somehow his most underrated win. Between people who refuse to give Froch his credit and those who refuse to give Ward his credit that fight goes shockingly unremarked upon. People mention Kessler, they mention Dawson, now they'll talk about Kovalev, but Ward utterly outclassed the second best SMW of his generation with one hand. It's a tremendous win.

His most overrated is Dawson. Ward looked great, but Dawson was a hollow shell of a fighter because of the weight. It's a shame how that fight ruined Dawson forever.

[pacmanis1]

I'd argue that Ward doesn't really have any overrated wins. For everyone that hypes them up there's plenty of people to crap on them to even them out.

Kessler - lot of people will complain about the fouling by Ward.

Dawson - lot of people will point out that Dawson wasn't in the best shape and was drained.

Kovalev - highly disputed win where a lot of people had Kovalev winning.

While individuals may overrate certain wins I'd say in the grand scheme it all gets evened out.

[boliodogs]

Kessler might be his most underrated win. Kovalev would be his most overrated win because in my opinion he clearly lost that fight by at least 3 points. He deserved to win all the other fights he won but he lost to Kovalev in my opinion.

[Banko Villas]

Kessler might be his most underrated win. Kovalev would be his most overrated win because in my opinion he clearly lost that fight by at least 3 points. He deserved to win all the other fights he won but he lost to Kovalev in my opinion.

I'm really glad that the 3 judges were a bit more professional in their scoring than the members of this website, lol. Ward clearly won, but the fight was close.