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Quote Originally Posted by CFH View Post

It's just a figure of speech. As violent as the sport is, no fan actually wants to see anyone get seriously hurt. It's just entertainment at the end of the day.
Of course it is a figure of speech, and I didn't think differently when I read it. But it's ugly anyway, in a sport where it could happen all too easily.

Even understanding that it wasn't meant literally, the comment is just one example among quite a few. Ward isn't much liked by a lot of people here. And the dislike has a bit of energy to it.

Really the only point I was trying to make. I don't think he's that hard to take.
People seem split on him. I think he's a very talented fighter, but he's also very dirty. I don't think his fights have been that entertaining, but they're not that entertaining in the same way that Mayweather's aren't - they're completely one-sided. It's always impressive watching Ward fight, but he's just so much better than everyone he's fought so far that there is very little intrigue.

I don't really mind his fighting style (at least not anymore than I might someone like Hopkins), it's mostly his personality that grates on me.