Roc Nation Sports signs Ward

[Rantcatrat]

I just don't know what's left for Ward at 168 besides the winner of Groves/Dirrell and DeGale. Like GGG, he should move up.

[Master]

I just don't know what's left for Ward at 168 besides the winner of Groves/Dirrell and DeGale. Like GGG, he should move up.

Those are still good fights at super middle. There is no need to face the dangerous light heavies.

[Kirkland Laing]

I just don't know what's left for Ward at 168 besides the winner of Groves/Dirrell and DeGale. Like GGG, he should move up.

If you're a promoter of any of those three guys, why put your guy in with Ward?

[Master]

I just don't know what's left for Ward at 168 besides the winner of Groves/Dirrell and DeGale. Like GGG, he should move up.

If you're a promoter of any of those three guys, why put your guy in with Ward?

Ward has a belt?

[Kirkland Laing]

I just don't know what's left for Ward at 168 besides the winner of Groves/Dirrell and DeGale. Like GGG, he should move up.

If you're a promoter of any of those three guys, why put your guy in with Ward?

Ward has a belt?

There are plenty of belts available. Ward owns one of the three or four available WBA supermiddle belts. So what?

[Master]

I just don't know what's left for Ward at 168 besides the winner of Groves/Dirrell and DeGale. Like GGG, he should move up.

If you're a promoter of any of those three guys, why put your guy in with Ward?

Ward has a belt?

There are plenty of belts available. Ward owns one of the three or four available WBA supermiddle belts. So what?

Belts are not easy to come by. The titles are all tied up and an easy fight would be fighting Ward who has not fought for over a year +

[Kirkland Laing]

I just don't know what's left for Ward at 168 besides the winner of Groves/Dirrell and DeGale. Like GGG, he should move up.

If you're a promoter of any of those three guys, why put your guy in with Ward?

Ward has a belt?

There are plenty of belts available. Ward owns one of the three or four available WBA supermiddle belts. So what?

Belts are not easy to come by. The titles are all tied up and an easy fight would be fighting Ward who has not fought for over a year +

I don't think any of the promoters of the guys you mentioned think Ward is an easy fight. There are much easier options for them to win a belt. For both the promoter and the fighter, as far as making money goes -- which is what they're doing what they're doing for -- fighting somebody else or for a vacant belt and then defending it against anybody but Ward is the way to go.

[Rantcatrat]

I just don't know what's left for Ward at 168 besides the winner of Groves/Dirrell and DeGale. Like GGG, he should move up.

If you're a promoter of any of those three guys, why put your guy in with Ward?

The boxing fan in me says because he's the class of the division and they sould want to challenge the best. The realist in me says because he's a star at HBO so a fight with him should offer a decent financial upside. Didn't Rodriguez have a contract for $1mm to fight him? That's more than Dirrell makes.

[Kirkland Laing]

I just don't know what's left for Ward at 168 besides the winner of Groves/Dirrell and DeGale. Like GGG, he should move up.

If you're a promoter of any of those three guys, why put your guy in with Ward?

The boxing fan in me says because he's the class of the division and they sould want to challenge the best. The realist in me says because he's a star at HBO so a fight with him should offer a decent financial upside. Didn't Rodriguez have a contract for $1mm to fight him? That's more than Dirrell makes.

Eddie Hearn has a track record of throwing his guys in with foreign champions in America. He signed De Gale as a Froch opponent and that doesn't look like it's going to happen. De Gale-Groves looks like a possibility. Maybe if it doesn't happen Hearn lets De Gale go to America and lose to Ward on HBO. But if they make De Gale-Groves for a belt then whoever wins will maybe fight Froch again or at least fight somebody like Kessler that makes money for Sauerland/Matchroom, not Ward's people.

Don't know actually mate. I haven't been keeping up to date with potential fights in the 168 division. But if you're Hearn or Sauerland and have a fighter who could potentially make you a lot of money letting him go to America and fight Ward is what you do when you've got no decent options left.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

Has there ever been any talk of Chavez fighting Ward?