Comments Thread For: Andre Ward Announces His Retirement From Boxing

[The Big Dunn]

Also Wlad. 4 giant names of the past decade+

I was reminded bhop's last fight was 2016 so he would go in 2021.

Cotto as well. Lot of HOF'ers calling it quits this year.

[MDPopescu]

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.

... As of lately you didn't actually root for him...

[thack]

Stay retired ...good luck and for the good reasons.

[New England]

... As of lately you didn't actually root for him...

again, i'm realistic and i'm calling it like i see it. has nothing to do with whether i like ward or not. i wanted him to win the fight, but i dind't want it to happen the way it did. he won the fight on a low blow. he landed a lot of low blows, and they had an affect on the fight. he looked like he'd figured kovalev out and was on his way to a stoppage, but that doesn't negate that the fight wast stopped on a series of low blows, and that low blows earlier in the fight had a serious affect on kovalev. he's a dirty fighter.

i went to f#cking las vegas and i live in boston, brother. i am not going to get into an argument with somebody about why i went. that's a waste of my time and yours. that's an expensive, 6-7 hour flight, 500ish for a ticket, and two nights at the bellagio. and i didn't go there for kovalev.

[ramblingalp]

Andre Ward, from the beginning has always been one of my favorite fighters.

I not only respect his talent and skill as a champion, but more importantly the way he has carried himself as a man. Class act all the way.

Best to you and your family Christian brother!

[SCEN3RY]

haven't bothered reading the letter yet, I guess bc I don't believe it. Ward is strange, and he feels entitled to me. Maybe this is just his way of trying to coax a big money "comeback." But of course if he's 100% committed to retire, then good for him I say. It takes a lot I believe to walk away from the sport especially while he's still relatively prime. Idk, I guess it's just that I saw Floyd do this 3 times (?), wouldn't put it past Ward to pull the same move at least once.

I just think in boxing you shouldn't be so quick to believe a fighter that says he's retired.

[kafkod]

Quote from the article heading this thread:

"He (Ward) then became a two-weight king in 2016, beating Alexander Brand to pick up the WBO light-heavyweight belt, before two memorable unification bouts with Kovalev."

Whoever wrote that article DKSAB.

[SlySlickSmooth]

No Ward!!! No!!!

[Thraxox]

people don't read my **** because it makes them feel inadequate. i've never been a fanboy of any fighter on bscene. ever. got that **** out of my system in my teens before internet posting was even really a thing on a major scale.

they're biased, i am not. might make me sound big headed, but i'm just a better poster and boxing fan than almost everybody here.

Weren't you bragging about how Andre easily whooped Froch? It was a fight that I really enjoyed from Dre and I like it even more than the Sergey Kovalev fight since it has 10 second brawling moments.

[MDPopescu]

again, i'm realistic and i'm calling it like i see it. has nothing to do with whether i like ward or not. i wanted him to win the fight, but i dind't want it to happen the way it did. he won the fight on a low blow. he landed a lot of low blows, and they had an affect on the fight. he looked like he'd figured kovalev out and was on his way to a stoppage, but that doesn't negate that the fight wast stopped on a series of low blows, and that low blows earlier in the fight had a serious affect on kovalev. he's a dirty fighter.

i went to f#cking las vegas and i live in boston, brother. i am not going to get into an argument with somebody about why i went. that's a waste of my time and yours. that's an expensive, 6-7 hour flight, 500ish for a ticket, and two nights at the bellagio. and i didn't go there for kovalev.

OK, OK...

Kovalev was declining in the second half... I think he was somehow going to quit... Ward wore him down (not by low blows, tbh)... But of course: the low blows were exactly what they are...