is andre ward good for the sport of boxing?

[Madison Boxing]

is he a positive or negative influence for boxing?

discuss...

[-Kev-]

Positive. He's fought the best, accepts every challenge, never backs down from any challenger or champion from any weight class. Doesn't claim he'd fighting anyone from 160-175 but just does it.

[chrisJS]

I'd say no. Dirty fighter uses a lot of illegal tactics. I mean watch the Kessler fight and tell me that's beautiful boxing..

His fights are boring and as a personality he has a chip on his shoulder and is boring too. He doesn't fight that often either (which I guess is a good thing).

[HeadShots]

completely negative. he's even worse than Mayweather.


he's modelled his style after Mayweather and HOpkin's worst and most illegal moves. he's got Mayweather's offensive clinches and Hopkins headbutts+holding and hitting. He uses them far more often too.



he isn't competing in boxing. he's competing in his own sport. it's a hybrid of greco roman wrestling and boxing + some MMA(when headbutts were allowed).




I stand by the fact that if a ref didn't have American bias who simply enforces the boxing rules, Ward would be an average fighter.

[HeadShots]

I would LOVE for Ward to fight Kovalev or Golovkin with a neutral ref who actually enforces boxing rules.



here he is shooting a double leg after Kovalev rocked him.

[DARKSEID]

The guy who really destroyed boxing is Alvarez.

He was poised to be the next Cash-cow, the next poster child of boxing.

And he had the Golovkin superfight to propel him into that status.

Instead he ran, vacated his belt, lost almost all of his fans and left a boxing void, that nobody is dominant enough or popular enough to fill.

[daggum]

Positive. He's fought the best, accepts every challenge, never backs down from any challenger or champion from any weight class. Doesn't claim he'd fighting anyone from 160-175 but just does it.

he accepts every challenge....why even say such rubbish? didnt want to fight bute, stevenson, ggg, or a froch rematch while trying to fight guys like sartison, truax, and getting rejected. he got exposed and forced to fight someone good like kovalev. the kind of boxer who will only fight the best when his back is up against the wall is not good for boxing because this kind of guy after gaining more clout will only cherry pick and take advantage(as ward attempted to do in the past and might be doing now, he refused to join the supe six unless it was heavily weighted in his favor) we dont need guys like this. fake stars that win based on hometown holding and hometown judging. sure the people of oakland love it but everyone else does not care.

[daggum]

I would LOVE for Ward to fight Kovalev or Golovkin with a neutral ref who actually enforces boxing rules.



here he is shooting a double leg after Kovalev rocked him.

i thought kov initiated all the clinches? ward fans said so...they wouldnt lie would they?

[HeadShots]

i thought kov initiated all the clinches? ward fans said so...they wouldnt lie would they?

are you ****en blind?





You would have to be a **** zucking phaggot if you can't see Bika relentlessly clinching Ward.

[Lester Tutor]

Let's ignore past tense and pretend his fights never existed. Like let's imagine PAC never existed with toradol or torn rotator cuffs or salt water healing for that particular case!