Andre Ward - Paul Smith

[Beanz]

A bloody affair for a boxer who didn't even consider fighting, let alone brawl.
Ward could have ended it early if he chose to bang.
Disposed a tomato can with a slow methodical pace.

No rust, still accurate, quick and overly patient.

What pisses people off with Ward, is he does lack excitement a very good technical boxer, but
not a style for a large fan base, he's a nice guy but has the personality of a plank.
Great boxer very hard to beat, a superstar needs some charisma pity Andre lacks it a boxer
more for the purists.

Yeah, guys who don't bang out their opponents or leave openings, with a clean personality are rarely called "classy" like a Sergio Martinez.
Ward is a class act outside ring, believes in Jesus, but due to his style...all that is negated.

The right foe will bring the fight out in him. It's not like he depends solely on countering.

Ward is a bumptious cretin outside of the ring. Believing in Jesus and the ill judged "SOG" moniker did diddly squat to enamour him to fans. Martinez is seen as classy because he had real humility and a keen awareness of all his limitations. He built a career for himself and was about as polar opposite to Andre as you could be. He based himself away from home, fought away from home and challenged himself even when in terminal decline. Ward acts like the spoilt rich kid for whom Daddies credit card has opened a lot of doors and thinks that a fan base is some kind of God given right. Seriously if you can be as obnoxious as Froch often is, and still build a rabid fanbase like he has, despite not having the skills of Maud, then Andre really has nobody to blame but himself.