Why Doesn't Andre Ward Get Praised for His Courageous Effort Against The Krusher?

[GMAN SUPREME]

because he lost and wont honor the rematch clause that's in the contract.he wants to retire that's a punk move.good thing that duva has the rematch clause if they didn't ward would never rematch kovalev on his own.

[-Kev-]

well then, maybe kovalev should get praised for his courageous effort against blake caparello. unlike ward, he came back from the knockdown and DEFINITELY won the fight.

Caparello is not a top 3 P4P fighter and top 3 LHW, or a puncher, or dangerous in anyway.

You can't compare Kovalev getting up from a Caparello KD to Ward getting up from a Kovalev KD.

Just like you can't compare JMM surviving the 1st round of his first fight with Pacquiao with something like Cotto surviving the Corley KD and coming back to destroy him. Completely different fighters you have to survive. Oh, Kovalev survived Caparello? Not exactly a feat respond with.

[SUBZER0ED]

Your poll choices are all biased towards Ward. That "win" was questionable, & now Ward's talk of possibly NOT facing Kovalev in a rematch is worthy of ridicule, not praise.

[jmrf4435]

TO most people, this miraculous adjustment was not apparent. The latter rounds were close, and I had kovalev winning a few of them HANDILY.

His fans are making up an adjustment that didn't really happen. Most people in the boxing world also though Krusher was robbed.

The only thing to praise is Krusher, who should be undefeated.

[jmrf4435]

Ward is a coward and deserves the treatment he gets.

Hopefully he retires

[al-Xander]

Why didn't you praise Khan when he fought Canelo? Or Brook when he fought Golovkin? They were ridiculed, instead.

There was also Joselito Lopez moving up at a moment's notice and faced Canelo. Who else?

What's so special about Ward moving up when he himself admitted he can no longer make 168?

[-PBP-]

Why didn't you praise Khan when he fought Canelo? Or Brook when he fought Golovkin? They were ridiculed, instead.

There was also Joselito Lopez moving up at a moment's notice and faced Canelo. Who else?

What's so special about Ward moving up when he himself admitted he can no longer make 168?

I did praise Khan. I ****ted on Canelo. How about we get our facts straight before trying to stage an attack on the PBP.

[New England]

threatening to retire after the fight is a great place to start. that's not conduct befitting a great boxer in his prime.

calling a guy who put you down hard and arguably handed you your first loss a "frontrunner" doesn't help, either. more experts thought kovalev won that fight than ward. mysefl and basically everybody else in the building was expecting kovalev to get that decision.


ward;s a great fighter and he's a likely hall of famer, but FFS the guy deserves a lot of the attitudes people have toward him because of his conduct otside fo the ring.

[fvanesbeck]

because he lost and wont honor the rematch clause that's in the contract.he wants to retire that's a punk move.good thing that duva has the rematch clause if they didn't ward would never rematch kovalev on his own.

I don't think he deserves ridicule unless he doesn't honour the rematch clause. He doesn't want to take less money than he got for the first fight but he was overpaid for that fight; therein lies the problem. If he hasn't rematched Kovalev by the end of this year then it's justifiable for people to be mad at him but people calling him a b*tch and a p*ssy are laughable - he got into the ring with Kovalev in the first place ffs!

[mathed]

Outlanded, dropped, and you are supposed to "take" the belts from the resident champ and the majority of people don't think he did that. Your poll choices are funny though, looks like they could have been provided by CNN.