Comments Thread For: Andre Ward: I Have To Make Decision Soon - Retire or Do Rematch!

[Pigeons]

Ward's not retiring. He's just feeding the trolls.

[NaijaD]

Make the fight Andre, if you retire all your work since you were a kid will be wasted. You will be remembered as a duck. Your name will not be mentioned among any of the greats of your era, someone will mention your name and people will say "Oh thats the guy that retired rather than honor the rematch with Kovalev right? Screw that guy." You were on the good end of a controversial decision, I along with an overwhelming amount of people had Kovalev winning but thats how fights like that go sometimes. The greats are anxious to remove all doubt, be great dont be a duck.

I completely agree, greatness is not just what you do in the ring, it's your attitude outside of it. A great fighter or a fighter that aspires to be remembered as a great would not be talking about retirement in this position. Ward should take a page out of Floyd's book as to what he did when he had controversial victories.

It's just not a good look, the first time you have a tough debatable victory and you're looking to exit the sport at the age of 33.

I'm a big supporter of Ward but this is a decision I can never rock with.

[lopetego]

he is the champ, he can do whatever he pleases.

and the NEW LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD....................ANDREW SOG WARD...............AFTER EVERYONE SAID YOU WERE DUCKING THE FIRST FIGHT, NOW THEY SAY YOU ARE DUCKING THE SECOND HAHAHAHAHAHHAH

He is only the champ for his cumguzzling fanboys like you, and for some black supremacists

the rest of the world saw him lose and fight like a ***** the entire fight, failing to even tickle Kovalev and getting floored, outlanded and emasculated in return

He won via homecooking and it seems he wants to retire like a coward instead of giving Kovalev the rematch he deserves

A fitting end for Ward if he retires just to duck a fighter he knows he cant beat and got a lucky W against

Andre "Lennox" Ward

[batista84]

whoop kovalev again and retire bro. (TMT)

Funny part is he didn't whoop Kovalev.

Actually Kovalev was the one who put Ward on the canvas.

[Bigg Rigg]

Smh p*ssiest move in boxing history if he retires. Respected his jump up to 175 and fighting Kovalev but this is lame af!! He needs to run that back.

[batista84]

Not gonna read the 10+ pages because this thing was all controversy.

Not gonna lie, I really like Ward and I got him on a very high note, what he did is no joke, he beat the hell out of the 168 division, came back to dethrone a 3 belt unified 175 Killer.................being honest you gotta give Ward his props.

The problem is that his last fight was controversial. he can chose 2 roads.

1 Rematch Kovalev like Floyd did to Castillo and beat the hell out of him, shake all that controversy, he'll be remembered as a dude who beat them all and dominate them all.

2 Retire now, his legacy won't be tamished because he did great things but there will be that little thing that will etch his career forever. (Did he really beat Kovalev? or did he just receive a decision to beat Kovalev)

[bambam182]

He is only the champ for his cumguzzling fanboys like you, and for some black supremacists

the rest of the world saw him lose and fight like a ***** the entire fight, failing to even tickle Kovalev and getting floored, outlanded and emasculated in return

He won via homecooking and it seems he wants to retire like a coward instead of giving Kovalev the rematch he deserves

A fitting end for Ward if he retires just to duck a fighter he knows he cant beat and got a lucky W against

Andre "Lennox" Ward

and the NEW LIGHT HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD....................

krusher fans are POS like pac-tards. can never admit their fighter lost.

[jmrf4435]

Retirement is better TBH. I really don't want to follow negotiations for a second fight

[aboutfkntime]

Couldnt have been put any better, he will be pissing on his entire legacy so retiring to save face and avoid kovalev so he doesnt take an L (if he shall lose which is a high probablity which is why he is even thinking of retiring) will hurt his legacy more than actually winning the first fight.



I hear ya but its Ward pride that is making the decision the dude is shallow as can be and this proves it because if he was really family first/family man he wouldnt let his pride get in the way jeopardizing his paydays, it wouldn't even be a thought. I would respect ward more as a man (in the grand scope of teh word) if he just avoided kovalev* and kept it moving and fought other dudes and kept that money coming in off other opponents he can beat. Fuck the criticism cause you gonna get that regardless but what the retirement talk is all about from ward is just to protect his pride.


*which he might actually be doing with this ploy, says he gonna retire wait till kovalev signs another fight and then come back and say hes back and sign to fight someone else and ride that out. Cause he has a legally binding contract that says he must rematch kovalev this might be his attempt to skirt that.

I see where you went wrong.

There will still be a ton of money to be made in the rematch.

[techliam]

He's just holding out for more money

No way Ward will retire without the rematch. He knows the score isn't settled - the world doesn't know who the better fighter is yet.