Comments Thread For: Hunter: 'Honest' Critics Will Remember Andre Ward as a Great

[champion4ever]

Andre Ward would go down into the annuls of history as a great great champion. The likes of which we will never see again.

[champion4ever]

ward never gave the fans and exciting night, not one (low blows and headbutts don't count) and that's crucial to the way people remember you in boxing. more limited fighters like gatti and ward are way more brought up into boxing conversations than andre is (one even got a movie awarding an oscar to christian bale).

Well at least he kicked Sergei Kovalev's ass. Not once but twice and the second time he made him quit. That's was more than enough excitement and entertainment for me.

[N!Ck F.]

If that's the case, then Arturo Gatti and Nigel Benn are 2 of the greatest to ever get in the ring.

Gatti is a LEGEND amongst hardcore fans despite his loses.
Nigel Benn is one of the scariest men to ever fight. The heart and determination against McClellan was unreal.

[aboutfkntime]

the crybabys who dislike Ward..... are heartbroken because he spanked their guy

because, if they really just disliked his style, they simply would not watch/mention him

oh..... and the G-tard crybaby's hate Ward because he punked Golovkin by lifting up his skirt so that the world could see his frilly knickers LOL

[PunchyPotorff]

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Originally Posted by PunchyPotorff View Post
Too many flaws to be considered anything more than a solid fighter. Nothing amazing. COULD have been amazing if he hadn't fouled the living daylights out of many of his foes thru the years. But he chose to ignore the rules I guess. And of course since he was the anointed golden child olympian, he got away with it almost always.

I'm interested to know about these flaws.

Not top secret info, friend. Low blows, head butts, all that type thing.

[TheThirdEye]

It's the duty of the trainer to believe in his athlete; it's not prediction. Initially, if a trainer isn't training to get a win, he's a bad trainer.
“Every day,” Ward said. “There’s a math equation very few people have solved. Having your legacy, finances, and faculties intact. How many people walk away with all three? I think about that all the time. I gotta figure that out.”

Humm! I undestand Ward logical answer to this equation. To keep his faculties intact and his legacy, Andre Ward figured it out, he retired. I mean, he ducked the threat: "Adonis Stevenson".

I guess this time, Virgil Hunter had one prediction right; predicting Ward to lose the Undisputed battle against Stevenson.
This liar may put his foot in his mouth as much as he wish, by saying stuff like: "Ward is not cut from the same cloth". Facts will remain facts. Consequently, that's how Andre Ward will be remembered:
The #1 P4P fighter who decided to duck a 40 years old boxer by retiring instead of being crowned Undisputed.

Virgil Hunter is panicking, all these sudden talks! The guy's close to be exposed. I mean, he's about to lose all his boxers. Khan 1st, Berto 2nd, maybe Fonfara 3rd; I mean, aren't they part of Haymon's house.

*Hey! Just talk to your old man, he needs to shut up...

[LetOutTheCage]

Never a great

[HarvardBlue]

Not top secret info, friend. Low blows, head butts, all that type thing.

Well those are "fouls", not "flaws". I thought you were going to list his technical flaws. I'm still waiting for the people that don't like Ward to tell me of the flaws he has as a boxer.

[buddyr]

Gatti is a LEGEND amongst hardcore fans despite his loses.
Nigel Benn is one of the scariest men to ever fight. The heart and determination against McClellan was unreal.

but according to what I was quoting, they're "all time greats' for their ability to make the crowd cheer. Gatti was an overhyped club fighter. Very exciting, but against the top fighters, he got his azz whipped. Plus he was saved from a ko against Patterson the 2nd time.

[Jsmooth9876]

He was an above average fighter. Not an ATG by any means. Beat Froch and arguably lost to Kovalev in fight 1. That doesn't make some ATG career. Too much inactivity and lackluster fights.

Critics may remember him as great but fans won't remember him at all and won't ever be going back to watch any of his fights. Unless they're in need of some good sleep perhaps.