Ward vs GGG, the whole truth! The whole timeline documented with Facts + Links

[Omair]

Summer 2013: Ward, (active and regarded a top P4P fighter) was offered the GGG fight by HBO, GGG said "Lets fight", but Ward said "No thanks" to a dangerous GGG fight and went on to fight Edwin Rodriguez instead.

Ward just recently commentated a couple GGG fights for HBO and seemed to be very very impressed, comparing GGG to Chavez Sr, just a better version overall, more power and better defense.

Links: Ward ducking GGG in 2013, original russian interview + Translation:
http://allboxing.ru/news/20150615-22...a-soboy-smotri
http://www.boxingscene.com/golovkin-...ing-sht--92369

Ward in awe while calling a GGG fight, saying GGG is a better version of Chavez Sr:
Exact link: https://youtu.be/UVuKFFeSmyI?t=21m50s

Winter 2013-Summer 2015: Ward inactive, not fighting at all, suing Goossen instead, sabotaging his own career, turning irrelevant as a fighter:
Link: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/how-and...59-boxing.html

June 20th, 2015 Ward comes back, fights Paul Smith at 172, moving further away from GGG. Fight is on some irrelevant network called BET, Ward lost his belts, his P4P status and his couple fans. Ward has no drawing power and has to rebuild his name.
Abel Sanchez realizes Ward possibly cant make 168 and wonders why Ward talks about facing GGG yet fights at Light Heavyweight, moving away from a GGG fight:
Link: http://www.boxingscene.com/gggs-coac...cations--90269

July 2015 GGG is still being avoided by the top names, Froch ducks the fight and rather retires, Cotto who is lineal MW champ avoids his mandatory GGG, so GGG still would consider fighting Ward, who is pretty irrelevant at this time money wise, yet K2 tries to negotiate with Ward, but Ward delusional as ever, demands 50/50 cash, K2 says, if Ward demands 50/50 cash the fight can only happen if both fighters meet in the middle, at 164. GGG moves up 4, Ward moves down 4. Ward doesnt respond, doesnt try to negotiate for example a 45/55 split at 166 or 40/60 at 168. Ward is shook of GGG yet again, ducks the fight yet again, goes silent.

Link: http://www.espn.com/blog/dan-rafael/...ke-ward-vs-ggg

Late 2015: GGG announces his future plans with the WBC mandatory, the Canelo/Cotto winner sometime in 2016, his plans to unify all Middleweight belts and also announces the Lemieux PPV later this year:
Link: http://www.fight news.com/Boxing/ggg...r-clash-302160
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sports...617-story.html

Same day, 1 hour after GGG's announcements: Ward, still only one meaningless fight under his belt in 2 years, terrible ratings, sends a "genuine 50/50 offer" to GGG for a fight in 12 months time, in Late 2016, after a couple tuneups at a weight Ward wasnt able to make in 3 years when the fight would happen. GGG has to move up to 168, yet "zero concessions" Ward would get 50/50 and GGG would have to give up the Canelo fight and the MW unification plans. Not to mention, that Roc Nation is involved in all the GGG talks and future plans because GGG is mandatory for their other fighter, Cotto
Link: http://www.latimes.com/sports/sports...915-story.html

A 100% hoax offer, yet again another duckmove by Andre Ward, who seems to be terrified of GGG after he commentated some of his fights on HBO.

Fanboys, dummygraphic and GGG detractors claim GGG ducked Ward and expose themselves, even though it is well documented that Ward ducked GGG all these years.

Also that sig tho.

[soul_survivor]

Ward has been pretty hypocritical. The only time the fight was possible, in real terms was 2013 and ward turned it down and went missing for 2 years. After that, it's been a party trick pulled by both sides to gain attention for their fighter and their fights.

Ward has been more guilty of it then team GGG.

That's all there is to it.

[Prince Madison]

the truth...

[Mammoth]

Gay as hell....

[just the facts]

GGG ducked Ward.Period

There's the straight dope. As they say, it is what it is.

[just the facts]

the truth...

you wouldn't know the truth if it bit you on the arse.

The real truth is that when this fight was a real possibility (not when Ward was injured, not when Ward was having legal battles) team g string (Loefnut and Unable) insisted that this fight could only happen at 164. This after approving 168 for both Froch and Chavez Jr. Team g string knew Ward would be shytehouse lucky to make 168 and 164 would be out of the question. They could act like they wanted a Ward fight but wouldn't actually have to fight him. Clear duck by team g string. If team g string thought he could beat Ward, this fight would have happened already. They don't think he can beat Ward.

Immediately after this, Ward moved up a weight class to fight the #1 light heavy weight (Kovalev) and team g string drug the #3 or#4 welterweight (Brook) up not one but two weight classes for a fight. So who's avoiding tough competition and who isn't?

[Larry the boss]

well If GGG beats Canelo hopefully he will dare to be great and fight Ward at 175 for p4p supremacy....

[rickJen]

Like many already said, why is it even called ducking when they're not even in the same division?
Loma calls Rigo's bluff at 130 and Loma is called all kinds of names.
Big guy taking advantage of a smaller guy.
Andre Ward does it and nobody says he's a bully.
Why can't people use simple logic and common sense?

[JK1700]

you wouldn't know the truth if it bit you on the arse.

The real truth is that when this fight was a real possibility (not when Ward was injured, not when Ward was having legal battles) team g string (Loefnut and Unable) insisted that this fight could only happen at 164. This after approving 168 for both Froch and Chavez Jr. Team g string knew Ward would be shytehouse lucky to make 168 and 164 would be out of the question. They could act like they wanted a Ward fight but wouldn't actually have to fight him. Clear duck by team g string. If team g string thought he could beat Ward, this fight would have happened already. They don't think he can beat Ward.

Immediately after this, Ward moved up a weight class to fight the #1 light heavy weight (Kovalev) and team g string drug the #3 or#4 welterweight (Brook) up not one but two weight classes for a fight. So who's avoiding tough competition and who isn't?

You nailed it. Amazing how so many people only pay attention to what they want to be true and conveniently "forget" the real facts/truth of the situation.

Basically what the TS did, put up loads of articles to make it seem like GGG wanted the fight and somehow omitted all the articles about Ward offering him the fight on 2 occasions and it being rejected both times. He made this thread as a attempt at a "clean up job" since I had already exposed the truth of what really happened.

Some of these people just can't be helped

[Gate keeper]

But didn't GGG and friends say they'd only go to 154 or 168 for a big PPV fight? GGG haters seem always to leave off that last part of the statement. It's not like they were ready to go up and down in weight just for kicks. And Ward was not and still isn't a big PPV attraction hence why they weren't interested in him and why the 154 - 168 statement mever applied to him. The fight was only of interest from hardcore fans. They were open to the fight but Ward but he was trying to hustle them out of their purse, like he did to Kovalev, when he wasn't even A side. Hence the 164 50/50 purse offer. Not to mention Wards ridiculous offer to fight GGG at the same time they were expecting to fight the Canelo Cotto winner.