Comments Thread For: Andre Ward is Not Convinced Yarde is Ready For Sergey Kovalev

[Keiran444]

From what i've seen of Yarde so far, it's not just a case of him lacking the big fight experience against quality operators, he is lacking in fundamental skills as well - especially in defence.
I reckon his only chance is to go "beast mode", and fight angry - chase the KO early. He won't beat Kovalev on points and I don't think his power will carry late into the fight if he's getting a demoralizing boxing lesson.

Excellent point.

Theres only one Joe Calzaghe, if ward fought and beat him he would be ranked higher, also his early retirement goes against him...(no mas)

[_Rexy_]

Ward has been awfully polite to Kovalev recently. He was pumping his tires when he was doing commentary for his last match against Alvarez too.

It's weird lmao

[Adamsc151]

Excellent point.

Theres only one Joe Calzaghe, if ward fought and beat him he would be ranked higher, also his early retirement goes against him...(no mas)

I would have liked to see Calzaghe-Froch before he retired as well, reckon it could have gone a similar way to the Lacy fight.
If anything, Calzaghe probably should have retired a couple of fights earlier as his hands were absolutely screwed in the last 2 years or so.

[Boxing_1013]

Perfect.... was thinking the same thing, but you said it first and said it better.

Respect.

Thank you my friend

[HanzGruber]

all i know about yarde is he does a terrible floyd/roger mitt impression

[harry-greb]

all i know about yarde is he does a terrible floyd/roger mitt impression

That śh1t won't help him against kovy

[Vlad_]

Ward has been awfully polite to Kovalev recently. He was pumping his tires when he was doing commentary for his last match against Alvarez too.

It's weird lmao

Ward, like many other people, was initially expecting Kovalev to lose in the rematch. Kovalev proved many people wrong, I guess that got Ward’s respect.

[saopaulo]

yarde should study ward and low blow serg the whole fight