is andre ward good for the sport of boxing?

[-Kev-]

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 is this one of your sacastic posts?

Froch rematch (The guy who admitted Ward was too sippery and his style was too slick)? GGG (is this serious)? Stevenson (Showtime???)?

Are you being sarcastic or what? I don't know when you're joking or when you're serious.

[HanzGruber]

You are seriously turning into freedom 2.0

[chrisJS]

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.

I think he's talented enough to adapt and most clearly is not an average fighter. I just think he's found a way he can get away with bending the rules and he's riding it. He's clearly a capable fighter though.

[Cutthroat]

He's great for boxing, he fights everybody. He's an amazing fighter, hasn't lost in literally 2 decades.

That's 20 years with an unblemished record, an incredible feat.

SOG has fought and beaten some of the most dangerous fighters and punchers in boxing as well.

Kovalev, Barrera, Froch, Kessler, Dawson, Abraham, Miranda, Green, Rodriguez, etc.

[SkillspayBills]

Well spoken. Family man. Never been in the news for anything foul or disrespectful. A great role model who is God fearing and practices what he preaches. And that's just outside of the ring. He takes on ALL challenges, beat all the best fighters in his weight division, then moved up and fought a top 2 P4P fighter like all champions should do. The people that hate Ward, it says more about their hypocrisy than it does about him.

[A.K]

He Makes boxing look soft and his fans reach harder than whiteside for a rebound.

[Szef]

He most definitely is not.

[chrisJS]

He's great for boxing, he fights everybody. He's an amazing fighter, hasn't lost in literally 2 decades.

That's 20 years with an unblemished record, an incredible feat.

SOG has fought and beaten some of the most dangerous fighters and punchers in boxing as well.

Kovalev, Barrera, Froch, Kessler, Dawson, Abraham, Miranda, Green, Rodriguez, etc.

I don't like to nitpick too much, but the Dawson fight was trash. He came down to a weight he could barely make and was getting KO'd in sparring.

Rodriguez? Meh. Miranda was already washed up and Abraham wasn't that good at 168 didn't he get shut out by Froch? I don't consider Froch all that special either.

Green and Barrera are solid guys no more no less.

The vast majority of people and nearly 100% of objective viewers had him losing to Kovalev. Kessler was a good win on paper but an awful foul filled, clinch filled fight that takes some of the shine away.

Ward has had a nice career but tend to think his resume gets overrated.

[djtmal]

horrific........

[gmc_rfc_06]

I'm on the fence at this stage.

Super 6 period, absolutely. Not everyone's cup of tea stylistically but he fought the top guys and he won.

The last few years though; inactive, extremely entitled and his comments since getting a pretty contentious decision over Kovalev have been pretty ludicrous.