Comments Thread For: Kovalev: I Doubt Andre Ward Retires, It's Not in His Best Interest

[Derranged]

Ward would ruin his name if he retired at this point. I don't think he will retire either.

[bluemax]

Ward's holding out until he gets his way to have the exact 3 judges that officiated in the first fight do the second. Getting 3 different judges to be just as corrupt or incompetent is a long shot. In the first fight Kovalev had no chance, if he had knocked Ward out he would have been disqualified or the fight would have been scored a draw by these 3 knuckleheads. Heck! I'm surprised they even scored the knockdown round for Kovalev!

[LoveWisdomTruth]

I don't think the next fight will be close. I even suggest the fighters should fight either till the fighter is KO, or gives up.
- A fighter gets knocked down, no 10 sec. counting rule (which gives an opportunity to corrupted judges to rob a fighter of his winning, the way Kovalev was robbed) the fight continues till the bell rings.

[Edward90]

It's amazing that after all these articles no one knows what the conditions are that Ward wants aside from the few at the negoti8table. Negotiations haven't even begun between the 2 teams and people are complaining. I think they are still waiting to confirm what Pacquiao will do as well. Either April or June, the rematch needs to happen depending on when Pacman fights. I think his PPV ended up hurting that of the first fight... It will happen.

[aboutfkntime]

I don't think the next fight will be close. I even suggest the fighters should fight either till the fighter is KO, or gives up.
- A fighter gets knocked down, no 10 sec. counting rule (which gives an opportunity to corrupted judges to rob a fighter of his winning, the way Kovalev was robbed) the fight continues till the bell rings.

you may have Love, Wisdom, and Truth.....

..... but you don't have much common-sense or boxing knowledge

[eco1]

A bigger ring

FLOYD Bayless Jr. As the referee

3 blind Oakland judges

Fight at Arco Arena

Before every round announce Ward is the
Olympic GOLD hero and Kovalev is a Russian Commy and Russia currently is juicing all their fighters.

$10,000,000 plus 90% of the PPV sales

I think the last one is 20 million and 99% of all the fight makes.
1% for everyone else and they have to cover expenses.

[tokon]

"Ward is willing to do the fight again, but only under the right conditions. If those conditions aren't met, Ward has even threatened the possibility of retiring to focus on his career as an expert analyst for HBO and other networks."

Does anyone know what these conditons are?

More $$$$!

[NO/BS2468]

I don't blame Ward one bit for fighting Kovalev again he's a straight up killer but now that Ward has the belts he should call out Stevenson and make a big fight.

[PunchyPotorff]

i will make you a harmless sig bet..... i bet you 6 months that Ward takes the rematch, and another 6 months that he wins it you in ? ..... or would you prefer to continue talking shht ?

Sure you don't wanna settle it over a game of hopscotch or marbles? LOL!

SMDH

The terms are already etched in stone for a rematch. Ward wants to weasel outta that, get more money, or he won't fight. What part of that can you not see? Geez bubba, you're smarter than this.