Quote Originally Posted by Ron Swanson View Post
Just answer this. What helps GGGs historical standing more, 5 more fights against unproven fighters or one fight against Ward?
You don't have to sell me on how useless belts are: I know. I often forget who holds what belt because it usually doesn't matter.

To be fair, the WBC MW Belt IS the linear championship and collecting all the belts is essentially cleaning out your division, even though everyone regards GGG as the #1 MW by a large stretch.

Yeah, a victory over Ward would be great for his legacy, but I don't see how I was wrong by asserting that Ward needs to come back and reassert himself before GGG would go up to fight him. Right now, Ward is unranked and has lost the position he fought so hard for (which now has seemingly fell back to Froch). If GGG fights Ward tomorrow and beats his ass, people will say "ohh I think Ward is washed up, the inactivity killed him, ect."

Conversely, if he lets Ward come back and reassert himself as the top 168lber and one of the p4p best in the world and THEN you go up and beat him, it improves your legacy ten-fold.