This sums up Andre Ward perfectly, he'll never be respected, EVER

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Being exciting matters in the BUSINESS of professional boxing. Who's the clown again? Oh, right. In Pac's comeback fight he fought Jessie Vargas, a second tier fighter. HBO wanted none of it despite Pac being an exciting ATG PPV-level fighter (though less exciting over the last few years). Top Rank did their own PPV instead and picked up its production because HBO told Arum & Team Pacquiao "Not interested. We'll pass."

Take the tinfoil hat off, chief. Back in the days of Ali it was Arum pushing minority fighters at the time, like Ali who he promoted, directly into the spotlight. He was signing minority fighters specifically, that's out of his own mouth. Back then the racial tension was much worse than it is now. You're a conspiracy theorist. For starters, Ward signed a contract with HBO to build up a fight with Kovalev. He could no longer make SMW after the layoff so he was forced to move up. Nobody ever forced him to get paid 5 million to fight Kovalev lol.

And Crawford, he hasn't even moved up yet and his next fight is still at 140. He's been planning to move up because he's big for the division and come fight night he's heavy. Mikey Garcia is also going to be moving up to a division more natural for him, and that's Junior Welterweight (140). If/when Crawford does move up then he'll have no white fighters to potentially lose to in the Top 10, unless Horn somehow beats Pac and then they fight. Look at every respected Top 10 Welterweight list right now and you won't see a single white fighter at this time on there. You pulled the race card and I pulled out common sense to defeat your bs.

Dawg you can't fool me. HBO's rejection of Pac has nothing to do with the topic. Every Tom, ****, and Harry knows that the real reason Pac was rejected was because of his ****phobic and overall anti -*******ist political stance in the months leading up to his fight. Pac came out of the closet as an anti *******ist and HBO rejected him as a result. It has nothing to do with the topic.

And please don't lie about Crawford. Crawford has never struggled to make 140, nothing from his or his camp has come out about him struggling to make weight. The moving up to face Spence talk from Kellerman was the most random question ever, or in fact not so random, since it's obviously agenda based.

Ward made it clear that he was forced to fight Kovalev. The contract he signed mandated that he move up and fight Kovalev. He was willing to stay at 168 to fight GGG (anyone from 154 to 168) but GGG ducked and Ward ended up signing the HBO (Kovalev) contract.

Fact is, no white fighter is being pressured to move up, and every good black fighter is being pressured to move up. That is not an opinion, it's a fact.