Comments Thread For: Andre Ward Announces His Retirement From Boxing

[deanrw]

I wanted to see him fight Stevenson. Good luck.

Floyd, Ward and Bhop HOF class of 2022. Amazing class.

Also Wlad. 4 giant names of the past decade+

[Eff Pandas]

No, man... nobody really wants to pay and watch him fight... Ward isn't a trash talker either... He's only for pundits...

LOL at the pundits line.

Look I'm not saying he will do this or that or I expect him to fight again or make some 8 digit payday in the future, but you are being naive if you can't see a road to him getting some career high payday at some future date if he choose to take advantage of the common theme of fighters getting more respect once they are gone or yet unforeseen opportunities presenting themselves.

Boxing is nuts like that. A guy just got the 3rd or 4th biggest payday in boxing history in his f#cking pro debut last month. Who the f#ck woulda predicted that sh^t 2 years ago?

[Gentblue]

Sooo does this mean Jack is going too fight Bivol for the WBA strap or Jack is the true champ now and Beterbiev is going for the IBF now?

[skinnystev]

what really sealed his fate were the beatings he took in his two "wins" over kovalev

[davidw9785]

haha, i think my ward avatar throws people off.


i'm a genuinely unbiased poster. or as unbiased as a person can be, i guess.


i thought ward should have had points taken and that kovalev should have had time to recover on several occasions. i can't see how any sane individual would argue with that. he's not evander holyfield, but he's without a doubt boxing's most prolific headbutter on the p4p level. probably the biggest head butter at the p4p level since hopkins. maybe i'm forgetting somebody, but i doubt it!

OK cool, thanks for the reply. I wasn't sure which way your were going. That's more or less how I feel.

[New England]

I remember that about 5 years ago you were rooting for Ward...

i still root for ward. i dn't go to las vegas to see sergey kovalev

being a fan of a fighter is not enough to get me to sacrifice my objectivity.

[TyrantT316]

I don't think Ward would come back just for money and fame. He seems like someone, with his faith, that would stay away for real, take care of his money and not want to risk long term damage when he's able to retire young and enjoy the fruits of labor with his wife and family.

[-DSG-]

You're a moron if you believe that.

Nope I just have high standards for a guy being called a HOF.

[davidw9785]

If you want to see the best use of the head in the history of boxing, Holyfield v Tyson. It was always just on the edge of legal, rapid positioning of his noggin so that Tyson's own movement took him on to it, and it completely threw Tyson off his game.

It frustrated Tyson to the point where it ultimately cost Holyfield a couple of chunks off his ears, but Holyfield got two Ws out if it and effectively ended Tyson's Beeth Mode permanently.

Haha. Good post man. Thanks for the knowledge. I'm not too old, so I never really studied Holyfield fights too close.

[elcashanilla]

Andre was a beast he fought everyone in their primes props to him and enjoy retirement