Ward wants GGG then Kovalev

[Beanz]

Ward may be a great boxer but the guy is one hell of a douche outside of the ring.

No way.

Family man and one of best nice guys in the sport of boxing today.

It's not a slate on his morality or ethics it's about the rubbish that pours out of his mouth. He fights Paul Smith...Paul Smith? at a catchweight and then tries to make it something it wasn't ,going on about having to watch for Smith's big right hand ? What big right hand ? The guy believes his own hype. Froch retires and then Ward goes on to say how he saw a lot of himself in Froch, always looking to challenge himself etc. Ward refused to challenge himself and fight outside of Oakland for most of his career, or America, and then wants the same props as guys who regularly travel to fight. Chalk and Cheese Andre, not the same at all. Now apparently he is going to fight Kovalev and then it turns out he means maybe next year. There seems to be no concrete offer to fight GGG either and yet already everyone is giving props to somebody who has fought once in 19 months and then against a washed up journeyman at a catchweight and yet Golovkin who has defended his titles 6 times is apparently the hype job.

Admittedly not the biggest douche in the Universe (Broner ? Chavez Jr ? Dame Cotto? FMJ?) but surely a contender ?

Roy jones never had to leave the country to fight?

Joe calzaghe had the majority of his fights on home turf.

There are many fighters that you could put under that same umbrella.

The actual truth is that deep down inside you don't want ward fighting GGG as it would ruin everything.

Lets just play it safe and keep calling him a douche and boring fighter hoping he will fade away from fighters the majority put up on this hagler pedestal!

Look Golovkin is not Hagler and Ward sure as hell isn't either but it is quite a rational reaction to watch Golovkin fight and rate him on the ability that he has shown. All anyone hears from Golovkin haters is how it's all hype etc as though none of us had ever actually seen a boxing match before. You could see it all the way back in the amateurs. Nobody is doubting Wards ability or wanting him to conveniently fade away, quite the opposite. He should be fulfilling that potential by fighting, not merely talking about it. If Golovkin goes up and fights Ward he has already done enough to earn everyone's respect, losing that fight would not ruin everything at all. If you really think people only admire Golovkin for his unbeaten record then you are deluded and not a great judge of ability yourself. Yes he has flaws, yes he can be hit, but he is out there challenging himself by trying to clear out the division. Calzaghe and Jones never had a super six style tournament in which the other participants all took turns fighting away from home. That particular bit of arrogance is Andre's hallmark, he thinks because of his ability he can dictate to everyone as a SOG, when the reality is that Prize fighting is also an entertainment business, and his drawing ability is nowhere near his boxing ability. He doesn't help that by the rubbish he comes out with out of the ring.