As a commentator , Ward has revealed his boxing strategy

[ruedboy]

Listening to Andre comment on fights, you get where he's coming from. It's a simple strategy and it's surprising it's not taught to young boxers.
Ward's game is: do anything you have to to win the fight. It's the ref's job to enforce the rules.
Most refs biggest fear (besides a boxer being badly injured) is to influence the score of a fight. It's rare to see points deducted for most infractions , except possibly low blows. Even then there are usually several blows landed and the damage done before the ref deducts a point.
Ward, as he aged, stumbled on the perfect strategy. Fighting as if there are no rules, coupled with refs who are hesitant to enforce the rules. Ergo, the dirty fighter always has a big advantage.

[KillaMane26]

That mentality dont fly when people don't like u. Maidana had the same mentality but nobody ever brings it up.

[The Ox]

Yeah, that was pretty obvious when he cheated against Kovalve with all those blows to the sack

[Dean_Razorback]

That mentality dont fly when people don't like u. Maidana had the same mentality but nobody ever brings it up.

only in the fights with floyd, who isn't a saint as well. i think labeling chino as a dirty fighter is unfair.

[KillaMane26]

only in the fights with floyd, who isn't a saint as well. i think labeling chino as a dirty fighter is unfair.

Unfair? He did the most dirty shyt in those fights. It was blantant asf But like i said nobody cares if he doing it vs Broner or Floyd!

Now just think if GGG did that in both Canelo fights? U think people would let it go?

[mxtali]

only in the fights with floyd, who isn't a saint as well. i think labeling chino as a dirty fighter is unfair.

Chino is undoubtedly dirty but so is Floyd. Forearms, elbows, etc. The reason he got bit by chino is because he had his glove stuffed in chinos face messing up his breathing. It’s the same reason Canelo got warned for hitting him low. He has his glove stuffed in canelos face when they were in the clinch and he got pissed.

[Redd Foxx]

People see shyt through rose colored glasses. When I bring up the rule-bending shyt Loma has done, esp to Rigo, bytches around here act offended EVERY time. As if he's a little angel. He's grown to be a gritty fighter and I like it. People can't see it though because they aren't boxing fans, just fans of certain fighters and they will always make excuses for those guys no matter what they do. You didn't see anything dirty Kov did, only what that nasty Ward did.

It's the fight game. Quit crying and go watch a sport that's soft like you are.

[KillaMane26]

People see shyt through rose colored glasses. When I bring up the rule-bending shyt Loma has done, esp to Rigo, bytches around here act offended EVERY time. As if he's a little angel. He's grown to be a gritty fighter and I like it. People can't see it though because they aren't boxing fans, just fans of certain fighters and they will always make excuses for those guys no matter what they do. You didn't see anything dirty Kov did, only what that nasty Ward did.

It's the fight game. Quit crying and go watch a sport that's soft like you are.

Facts..... Most guys do dirty **** from time to time. Blantant or subliminal. But if they don't like you it will be brought up for the rest of your career.

Salido and Maidana basically did the same thing. Make things a street fight vs the Olympic boxer, which is smart.

But who gets criticised for it?

A while back sumbody make the Dirtiest fighters of all time.

And guess who was brought more than the blantant dirty fighters?? Lol

[D4thincarnation]

Ward always fought on his home turf because he needed this advantage from the ref and judges, who favor the home fighter and the money fighter.

Refs don't mind deducted points and penalizing away fighters who are not the money fighter, as the people in the sport want that to happen.


True great fighters can go on the road and win.

Ward is not a great fighter.

[megh50]

The only modern fighter I've not seen do dirty things intentionally is Lomachenko. He's only a few fights in and hasn't had to dig real deep yet, but we'll see.

Kovalev was hitting Ward behind the head repeatedly in both fights and tried to choke him out on a few occasions. Ward was hitting Kov borderline low on the blind side of the referee. It's as clear as day in the videos of most of his fights, and he does it all the time. Kovalev as well with his tactics. They both reacted to each other's known dirty tactics.

Fighters acknowledge that a little of this dirty stuff is part of the game, but Hopkins and Holyfield often took it up a level too far. As I've said, the only top-level fighter I've seen play it straight is Loma. Man, even Pac has done the occasional low one and his double punch of Clottey also comes to mind.

I think we need to accept the fact that Kovalev lost because he was exposed by his inability to take it to the body, his poor attitude and training habits and his drinking. He has good boxing skills but he lets other fighters get into his head