Comments Thread For: Artur Beterbiev is About To Become Mandatory To Andre Ward

[danceswithfire]

beterbiev= david lemeiux of light heavy

ward needs to rematch kova to gain back credibility

[Eff Pandas]

I think Beterbiev needs a couple more high profile fights, and I want Ward to fight Stevenson after the Kovalev rematch

Good luck getting Adonis to fight anyone top 3ish or a serious threat to him. Guy has been fighting bs guys since after Fonfara several years back. I suspect Adonis will just keep fighting bs guys til someone upsets him and then he'll say f#ck it and cash out with 1 to 3 meaningful, competitive fights to end his career.

And idk that 175 is THAT deep to throw Artur into a couple more fights. Idk that his gonna get better that quick or at all anyway so I don't see the point really. And he's unlikely to get magically popular to make the fight huge cuz the US isn't partial to foreign fighters very often. Just f#cking fight this year or likely sometime early next year with Ward's likely intended schedule.

[Ind Ividual]

Wouldn't Andre Ward be champion then?

No cause, He didn't beat the man. You can't beat the man if you remove yourself from the purse bid.

[bojangles1987]

Ward has a Kovalev rematch, and anything short of moving up another division to fight a champ will be excusable for him.

[Derranged]

Stevenson is the true champion in that division and Andre Ward proved it by beating Kovalev in front of everybody.

I think Ward can beat Kovalev again even if he's not really a better boxer.

And I think that unless Kovalev finds a way to hide that chin that comes out when he uses his right, he gets knocked out by both Beterbiev and Stevenson.

Stevenson hasn't fought anyone noteworthy in years and Ward arguably lost to Kovalev.

[original zero]

Good luck getting Adonis to fight anyone top 3ish or a serious threat to him.

Can just as easily flip it around. Good luck getting anyone top 3ish to fight Adonis.

Adonis is the lineal champion, which you guys try to claim is all that matters. He's also the WBC champion, which is the most prestigious and lucrative belt in boxing.

So why aren't the top 3 pursuing him? Kovalev was literally Stevenson's mandatory and Kovalev refused to fight him. TBRB has Joe Smith #3 and Stevenson just tried to fight him in a voluntary defense.

But Smith demanded a rematch clause! Ridiculous.

Just shows how effective the HBO propaganda is that so many of you have been poisoned on Stevenson. We know 100% for a fact that Stevenson and Kovalev were supposed to fight and Kovalev blatantly ducked and threw his belt in the garbage to avoid Stevenson.

Funny how lineal only matters if it's an HBO fighter . . .

[Eff Pandas]

Can just as easily flip it around. Good luck getting anyone top 3ish to fight Adonis.

Ward & Kovalev fought each other. I don't know why the would be scared of Adonis.

Adonis is the lineal champion, which you guys try to claim is all that matters. He's also the WBC champion, which is the most prestigious and lucrative belt in boxing.

Lineal champion is bs its just the least bs of all the "belts" to most people cuz you beat the man who beat the man usually to have gotten it or at least a top guy. And all the alphabet belts are at their all time low historically in the sport so who cares if the WBC belt is the winner of the tallest midget award.

So why aren't the top 3 pursuing him?

Last I heard it was cuz he was trying to bring in Showtime for a deal with HBO fighters despite having no contract with Showtime which seems like some ****** sh^t to me. He can easily do what Amir Khan & Daniel Jacobs did & fight on HBO PPV for career high money as a Haymon managed guy, but he's chosen to be loyal to a premium cable network that isn't even paying him that I'm aware of. Seems like some weird a$$ cop out to me. Honestly I don't care all that much at this point. He's made himself irrelevant despite being the "lineal champion" & the glorious "WBC belt holder" at this point & I stripped him of the Eff Pandas 175lb Championship a couple years back for failure to defend his belt vs top challengers & gave it to Kovalev who lost it to Ward.

Funny how lineal only matters if it's an HBO fighter . . .

Lineal is ****** & meaningless in this era with a multiple champion structure where champions don't fight champions that often with or without HBO. Quit listening to only the dummies who believe &/or hype dated bs.

[uppercut510]

insert the next guy ward is ducking and scared of, threads coming daily soon

[Hatesrats]

S.O.G. should just retire & let these 2 guys fight it out for second place.

[aboutfkntime]

beterbiev= david lemeiux of light heavy

ward needs to rematch kova to gain back credibility

nah he is definitely better than Lemieux