Why was Ward unable to stop Green?

[Crazylegs77]

The greatest boxing prodigy of our century, the phenom, son of god, was he just going easy on Allen? Why did he not just knock Green out?

[Spray_resistant]

He is pillowing fisted.

[infamous larryx]

styles make fights,johnson is a pressure fighter,ward isnt..pressure bust pipes...but ward won every second of every round,while johnson was behind on 2 cards

[TheGreatA]

He can't punch.

[Crazylegs77]

He is pillowing fisted.

He can't punch.

But he has the hardest head in the division

[Bastian Loc]

styles make fights,johnson is a pressure fighter,ward isnt..pressure bust pipes...but ward won every second of every round,while johnson was behind on 2 cards

lmao, Ward was all up in his grill mauling the **** out of him.

You don't call that pressure?

The reason he couldn't do it is because Ward sucks, doesn't understand punching range or distance in general, has a ****ty offense, holds too much when he should be fighting and would rather win by wrassling and headbutting than by punching the other guy.

Johnson>>> Ward and its not even close.

[Spray_resistant]

But he has the hardest head in the division

Its between him Hopkins and Holyfield.

[crillz]

The greatest boxing prodigy of our century, the phenom, son of god, was he just going easy on Allen? Why did he not just knock Green out?

I think it's more due to their styles, Ward has more of a defensive minded fight style while Johnson may not be as technically sound but he rushes you and forces you to spend yourself by brawling with him and with Johnson your not going to out do him, you might survive him but he will stay on you punch for punch and not everybody can handle that, Allan Greene couldn't handle that

[deuce_drop]

i think he was more concerned with greens power and was more into the smothering fighting style which smothered quite a bit of his own punches and really wasn't able to set green up for anything really big, more of a grinding and wearing green down.

johnson was taking any and everything opening possible, inside and outside, and wasn't letting green get set and wasn't leaving himself open by standing and trading. not that ward was, but ward, smothered and grappled more, had he fought more with an offensive mind and combinations, ward would've had green out of there, ward was more focused on not giving green anything to work with, which he did well but didn't leave us anything exciting...

[TheGreatA]

Glen's power gets sold short a lot of the time, he is no puncher but he hits hard enough to hurt and he hits often. Green was so open for the overhand right that it's no surprise he ended up being stopped, because Johnson wasn't going to stop throwing it.

Ward just hasn't displayed fight-changing punching power so far.