Comments Thread For: Andre Ward's Coach: There Was No Money in Facing Stevenson

[sammybee]

At least Ward should have fought Beterbiev before retiring.

[Sledgeweather17]

it would make both a lot of money in canada, if stevenson is making high 6 low 7 figure paydays fighting nobodies in quebec as is. sounds more like ward doesnt want to fight in canada to have the risk of a robbery.

One of the first things Stevenson said when he called out Ward was that he is willing to go to America for the fight. He must have forseen they would use this excuse to justify the duck, and they did it anyway despite Stevenson saying he was willing to travel.

They couldn't use the Showtime excuse either since Ward only signed a three fight contract with HBO and had concluded that contract.

This is a blatant duck. I mean we heard it in the Kovalev 2 post fight interview how Ward already tried to avoid Stevenson questions, and then in the post fight press conference and interviews after he kept trying to swerve those questions and/or downplay Stevenson as a credible opponent (yet he was tryna fight Bellew, a Stevenson KO victim).

Ward ducked Stevenson, and so did Kovalev. There is no two ways about it.

[Kigali]

At least Ward should have fought Beterbiev before retiring.

That bum got dropped by Jeff Page Jr.

[Kigali]

Two weeks ago, IBF, WBA, WBO light heavyweight champion Andre Ward (32-0, 16 KOs), 32 years old, caught everyone by surprise when he announced his retirement from the sport. Ward, a unified champion at super middleweight, officially made his move to the light heavyweight division in early 2016. He only had four bouts at the weight, but in those four he dominated highly regarded contender Sullivan Barrera and picked up back to back wins over former division ruler Sergey Kovalev.
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Fighting Stevenson in Canada would be huge....dude fights before packed houses regardless the opponent.

Andre didn't want to get laid-out.

[kennethjohn]

That bum got dropped by Jeff Page Jr.

off balance shot.


Ward was dropped and barely survived vs darnell boone.

[BoxingJunkie]

At least Ward should have fought Beterbiev before retiring.

I'm sorry, did you not read the article?

[Robi13]

Virgil just gave up the fact that Andre will be back.

[Boxing Logic]

Guys just stop talking about him, or commenting on articles about him. I'm only commenting to say that, then I will follow my own advice. Don't help him follow in Floyd's cowardly footsteps and use a fake retirement to help him duck, cherry pick, manipulate and damage the sport even more than he already has. Just let him go away quietly. He's made a lot of money in the sport, and he has a nice family, so let him exit the sport quietly and I hope he and his family live great lives off the money he made from corrupt boxing matches, and that no more damage to the sport will be done by him. But the more articles we post about him, and the more comments we make about him, the more likely it is that he will come back and do even more damage to a sport whose stewards seem obsessed with revolving it around him whenever he expresses the slightest interest in being orbited. So let's stop talking about him, and hope he does not feel the need to be orbited again in the future, since we know both Showtime and HBO will be tripping over themselves to do just that the moment Ward decides he wants that again.

Ward had a great, amazing, all time great career... ahem ahem ahem... just amazing, great, totally complete career, ahem ahem, that doesn't need anything else, that doesn't need any more fights, that isn't lacking anything, ahem, it's just totally complete and perfect and Great the way it is, so let's celebrate this... amazing... ahem... career, and let this All Time Great, ahem, retire and leave the sport in peace... and quiet...

[Elroy The Great]

not the best reason to retire. not as if he was making big bucks to begin with. still a hofer without super on the ledger.

[Elroy The Great]

One of the first things Stevenson said when he called out Ward was that he is willing to go to America for the fight. Ward ducked Stevenson, and so did Kovalev. There is no two ways about it.

fighters often say things they dont back up.

ward doesnt have a cowardly bone in his body and has the resume to prove it.