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Ward is the new tbe.....he don't have to do nothing if kovolev doesn't agree to his terms.
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I'm 99.9% certain his threats of retirement are only so he can secure himself an even better deal that he got in the first fight (and he was treated as the A-side even then, despite Kovalev being the champion... Even Ward's own trainer Virgil Hunter complained about the disparacy in pay between the two.)
They will rematch and Ward will get
. I have no doubts about that.
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he has to take a paycut no matter who he fights next so i guess he has to retire what a loss to the boxing world.Originally posted by -PBP- View PostComment
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Duva can't promote period.Originally posted by billeau2 View PostWhat you are saying is not false, but if you think clearly about it, you can see why there are problems. Ward's purse demands are part and parcel of having certain expectations. one expectation is that the people you give a lot of the revenue to... Promote the fight so that the fighter takes home reasonable money. Five million dollars for an elite fighter...after taxes, paying assorted team members, etc is not that much money. It does not matter what the numbers say...at some point the people responsible for making the numbers jump have to do their job.
I often joke because Dante master of death, deadly martial artist lol, (real name John Keenan and he was a hair dresser!) to promote what was the first full contact tournament for martial arts perhaps in this country, around the 1960's literally walked a bull down the busiest street in Chicago telling people he would be taking the Bull's horn off with a knife hand strike.
Don King and Arum, even at their age, would do the same thing and more!!! if it took it to bring interest to a fight. I just don't see the promoters here doing anything!!! 5 million is not a lot of money, this fight could be handled a lot better, regardless of Ward's demands.
Tell people that ***** has money on Kovalev!
walk a bull...do what it takes to promote the fight and we may not have this problem.Comment
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The butt hurt when he faces Beterbiev and beats him is going to be unparalleled, you'll provide us with some sig worthy comedy laughs no doubt if you haven't thrown yourself under a truck or down an elevator shaft.Originally posted by daggum View PostComment
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you think ward is scared of a courtroom? he practically lives there. as the great george w bush said...........bring em onOriginally posted by -PBP- View PostComment
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we don't have to even contemplate that fight since ward will never get 5 million for it. what a shame. they just wont pay the man what he's worth. what a great loss to the world of boxing. we never get to see him fulfill his destinyOriginally posted by Scott. Weiland View PostComment
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Yeah, remember that Ward sat out 2 years over a contract dispute that he probably could have just settled.
He'll negotiate over a dollar. I neither respect or disrespect that. It's his career and his brain cells, so his decision.
I'm an Eastbay native, but no longer much of a fan. I was excited after the Super 6... And then he went away, and then he fought showcases. What's there to get excited about?
Kovalev fight, of course, was exciting. Now I want him to avenge his Giftory.
But I doubt he cares that my p4p lists Kovalev as 2a and Ward as 2bComment
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