Would he be embrace and loved like SRL? Or people will still hate him outside the ring but love him inside the ring?
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Would he be embrace and loved like SRL? Or people will still hate him outside the ring but love him inside the ring?
He would have gone the different route and played the peoples Golden Boy instead of having to play the villain. Both options are profitable.
I think if you're brought to the professional ranks with a silver spoon in your mouth, you might as well use it.
I prefer the villain because it's funnier.
He never had the personality to be a Sugar Ray Leonard. There's no way Floyd could have kept up the Mr. Nice Guy act. It worked out for him though, he's made more money than anyone in the history of the sport so he's done something right.
He would have melted it down into a watch and gave it to one of his King kong bundy size body guards. Any asshole who terms premier network money and investment a 'slave' contract while wearing platinum could care less.
Floyd would be the darling of the US but then after all his problems he would be the most hated boxer as he is now.
They don't embrace ward.
And he is like the Obama of boxing.
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Originally Posted by imp
Ward is a dandy that already had a head the size of a prime Roy Jones before he turned pro. That was later kept in growth mode throughout the S6 as he was pampered through that. Once the world stopped falling at his feet he went on strike. Andre Wards biggest problem is Andre Ward.
To be fair to Ward, Sugar Ray Leonard came into the game when there was much more interest in boxing. It was '76, Muhammad Ali was keeping eyes on the boxing world but getting visibly older, people were looking for the next big thing, out of nowhere the amazing '76 American olympic boxing team steals the show with Leonard at the fore front, and he's spring boarded into the nation's consciousness.
Contrast that to Andre Ward, who won a gold as part of the 2004 olympic team that was abysmal and therefore got little press, and he came into boxing when the sport had very little interest in it, especially compared to the mid 70s.
Again though, Ward didn't have the "fan friendly" style that Leonard brought to the table, but if Ward had come into the sport in '76 I believe he would have been much bigger.