Comments Thread For: Andre Ward Hints at Comeback? At Higher Weight?

[MrShakeAndBake]

the king will return.

joshua too damn robotic. ward whoops him. easy work.

#theboogeymankilla

if ggg wasn't such a coward ward would've whooped him too.

the only coWARD here is ward. Fighting dirty on PEDs cheating and having refs and judges in his pocket. Only coWards and cheats stay in locally, NEVER FORGET THAT!!!

[j.razor]

It's not the Ward way. Ward skipped a lot of high purse fights, so why would you critisize Usyk for doing the same thing?

Pump your brakes dude. Ward wouldn't let no high purse go & usyk would get his biggest purse right now if he fought Ward.

[j.razor]

Blatant cheat is how i see his retirement if he wants to come back now bulked up.

Blatant hater of winners you are....

[j.razor]

I figured he "retired" after the **** punch to avoid the fallout. He has enough fans on this forum that they treated it like a heroic stoppage but in the outside world people saw what happened & he was not a well-liked figure. I'd wager he would have taken less flack for a straight up loss.

I'm not going to comment on doping. My policy on doping: Most of them do it, they just range in a spectrum from the guy who takes mild diuretics to make weight all the way to the human science experiment unlikely to see old age, anthony joshua.

He beat the "crusher" to a pulp & you mad....LOL

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He beat the "crusher" to a pulp & you mad....LOL

There was nothing mad in that post. In fact I was being nicer to Ward than most of the responses here are.

If you want the brutal truth, nearly 80% of polled media believe Kovalev won the first fight & the second ended via a botched low blow call. I don't think he was or will ever be good enough to truly beat Kovalev. Not on his best day. He's just not good enough.

Is that what you were looking for?

[lion33lit]

sounds like kessler and kovalev who he struggled with. couldnt do much more than hold for most of the fight. now hes going to hold a 6-7 250 pound guy? and get away with it in the other guys country? cheating doenst travel. you are overrating the guy. if he had skilz he wouldnt need to grab nonstop and foul. you are confusing corruption with skills

Kovalev grabbed HIM when he FINALLY experienced someone who wasn't afraid to take it to the body. When someone like Ward, who was absolutely NOT AFRAID of this guy in both fights .....Kov was now a fish out of water! Ward ADMITTED he was waaay to stationary the1st fight. But that 2nd fight PROVED Kovs belly was NEVER even REMOTELY touched/tested before...... I gotta check out the Kessler fight to give a non-bias opinion.

If Ward fights Joshua, Joshua won't be "allowed" to bum rush, so ward won't be allowed to "hold" unneccessarily......it goes both ways!! Ward doesnt have to "back up" EVERY time an opponent TRIES to back/push him backwards......standing your ground is not a sin in the sport of boxing! Kovalev now praises Ward & gives Ward CREDIT for showing him what it takes to be a CHAMPION and how to ALWAYS be PREPARED in every fight!! Again, a fighter doesnt have to "back up" just because your opponent wants u to.

Holyfield pushed Tyson back in BOTH fights and Tyson was rendered ineffective in BOTH fights. Joshua shouldnt be ALLOWED to come up the middle all night long without some type of challenge or resistance .....whether it be evasive or standing there like a brick wall! Joshuas imposing style scares people into losing BEFORE the fight even begins (jus looking at him makes them pee their trunks).......Parker is evasive, so this would be the only fight I'd even consider spending my money on thus far - when it comes to Joshua and his fodder opposition (I lie, I'd probably have spent it on the Whyte fight, being that Whyte beat him in the amatuers and was talking mad ****y s**t for the buildup).....peace.

[j.razor]

Light heavyweight =/= cruiser weight. I hope you understand this! Andre Ward actually had feats at light heavyweight before he faced Kovalev. He competed in the light heavyweight division in the 2005 Olympics and won a gold. He is also a naturally sized light heavyweight too.

Cruiser weight is a big difference! Usyk would destroy Kovalev. Breidis would destoy Kovalev. Kovalev with greater punching power isn't going to be the favorite or going to stand much of a chance at beating those cruiser weights. Ward with less power is going to stand MUCH less of a chance.

Let's not forget that Kovalev and Ward were more or less even for the most part and Ward had an extremely difficult time against Kovalev compared to his past opponents. The rounds were very close and the bouts were decided by very fine margins. Ward isn't going to find it any easier against top cruiser weights. Instead, it's going to be the total opposite where he finds it even more difficult.

Many were pushing for Rigondeaux and Lomachenko to face each other and we all know what happened there in that bout. Rigondeaux won every round against the bigger Nonito Donaire but couldn't win a round against Lomachenko. The same is going to occur to Andre Ward against Usyk.

Dude give it up already. Ward beat the **** out of kovalev & Rigo got the 1st round against loma then didn't put any effort in the rest of the fight....Rigo also did NOT win every round vs nonito, it was a good fight.

[miniq]

Someone tell Ward heavyweights don't weigh 200 pound anymore they weigh 250 pounds...and if he thinks he can overcome that then he is a donk.

[hitking]

There was nothing mad in that post. In fact I was being nicer to Ward than most of the responses here are.

If you want the brutal truth, nearly 80% of polled media believe Kovalev won the first fight & the second ended via a botched low blow call. I don't think he was or will ever be good enough to truly beat Kovalev. Not on his best day. He's just not good enough.

Is that what you were looking for?

Kovalev seems to disagree. He even considered bringing in Virgil Hunter to, paraphrasing his words, “get on Ward’s level.”

[hitking]

Hadn’t been on this site regularly in awhile. I see the Ward haters are still salty.