No Face-Off for Ward-Kovalev 2? Ward apparently a no-show

[Porter's Dad]

Sucks if true. I love Ward but he's gotta start helping fully promoting fights of his that are PPV, even if he has his big guarantee.

This info is from the Main Events said though (which hate Team Ward), so there could be more to this story.

We regret to inform you that there will be no Face Off for #WardKovalev2. The coward @AndreWard left Las Vegas to avoid @KrusherKovalev! pic.twitter.com/5sinCaF0it

— Main Events (@Main_Events) May 7, 2017

.@andreward @KrusherKovalev @HBOboxing Is anyone surprised, really? Sucks for all the people who worked so hard to put this together and care so much about their work.

— Main Events (@Main_Events) May 7, 2017

[RussB23]

Ward shook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Madison Boxing]

classic andre ward, he will do his best to suck the enjoyment/hype out of any event.

[bojangles1987]

Interested what Andre's reasons will be.

[GGG Gloveking]

I really hope this isn't true, or there's more to the story. This is one of the most important fights of 2017, it needs to be built up as much as possible. Everyone needs to do their part to promote this event.

[Grimmer]

Good.

These Face Off's have become saturated and predictable. They're massively overused, especially here in the UK.

Every now and then they're okay, if the fighters are interesting enough, but we don't need them for every single "big" fight.

Ward v Kovalev II sells itself on competitive merit.

[SplitSecond]

Ward has his money, he doesnt give a sht about anyone else, not the other fighter nor the people putting this event together, I was hoping he'd do some promoting this time but some things never change. Ward must have a really sweet deal if these promotional events arent mandatory.

On another note, highly unprofessional of ME to call ward a coward.

[Jsmooth9876]

No amount of promoting will help this fight sell so who cares if Ward is being a little ***** as usual.

[Szef]

Good.

These Face Off's have become saturated and predictable. They're massively overused, especially here in the UK.

Every now and then they're okay, if the fighters are interesting enough, but we don't need them for every single "big" fight.

Ward v Kovalev II sells itself on competitive merit.

True but a face off for this fight would've been awesome. These guys genuinely don't like each other and we know Kovalev is always fun to listen, especially when he's angry at his opponent lol.

[TheCell8]

If this fight does well financially, you can thank Kovalev for hyping it up.