HBO's packaging of Andre Ward is DISGRACEFUL!!!

[IamInuit]

Its bad enough that fighters have one slave owner but two. These pseudo omnipotent broadcasters and especially HBO are deciding who fights each other. Sadly they want to go back to wearing togas and throwing bread around.

[IamInuit]

Ps- Ward needs to shit or get off the pot.

[walrus]

I like Ward but a lot of his style does at times make him a bit boring.

[beenKOed]

Its bad enough that fighters have one slave owner but two. These pseudo omnipotent broadcasters and especially HBO are deciding who fights each other. Sadly they want to go back to wearing togas and throwing bread around.

Ward is screwed, he is not going to change the way he fights, stop talking about Christianity, take SOG off his trunks, start chasing women or drugs. He's going to keep trying to be as decent as he can.

[zhubin]

I am not a huge fan of Ward's fighting style or religious talk (and i am a Oakland native!). But he is one of the 3 best fighters in the world right now...along with Floyd and Rigo. All three of them are technicians (with Ward, much like B-hop, being a skilled/cagey fighter who knows all the tricks in the book). But only Floyd is marketable because of his business acumen and brash personality. Lets not forget...if it wasn't for the fact that Floyd generates the biggest paydays for his opponents...his style and ability would scare off most opponents. This just points to the fact that boxing, like most other professional sports, is as much (if not more) a business than anything else. Lets see if the tide turns a bit for Ward IF he is able to fight guys like Kovalev, Chavez jnr., GGG, Stevenson, etc. But for most these guys, the risk/reward isn't high enough to face a guy like Ward (same problem for Rigo).

[ykdadamaja]

Ward needs a fight that can make him fight... Floyd had Corrales and Emmanuel Burton... Ward needs a starter....

[FinitoElDinamita]

Can we stop putting floyd and ward ij the same sentence though? Lol as somebody mentioned, their styles are totally different. Floyd makes you miss and he makes you pay.. he stays within punching range and boxes your ass off without clinching and all the other bs to make up for lack of skills.. he does everything correctly as a boxer and unlike ward, a lot of people do find him exciting and even to those who are thrilled, they stiill admire his work..

Fuck andre ward. He holds escessively like ricky hatton and has as much personality as Cotto which puts him in that wood status.

And that bible thumping nerd image is rubbish and shit aint gonna sell in boxing. Boxing fans wanna see fists flying, period. We dont give a shit about what he talks about with god or moses dividing rivers amd shit.

Andre wadd is rubbish

[ykdadamaja]

Former Baltimore Ravens Linebacker Ray Lewis talked about God all the time....