Quote Originally Posted by Spicoli View Post
This is actually embarrassing. Newsflash..the rust was self imposed. Ya just can't have it both ways. Over 4 years he drains a lt. heavyweight to have a showcase. Beat a robot with a dumb hat in a fight that looked half cat boxing/ half sumo wrestling and faces obscurity types in annual CW farces. Ward is beginning to come off very hand held.
He's lucky he has any fans left at all. Its really hard to put together or understand whats happened here since he won the S6. That cant be what he meant when he said, "I'm going to be bigger then Robinson?"

I've actually come to the conclusion that the guy does not like boxing and like Taylor admitted, the only reason he got into it was for was fast big money. I guess nobody explained to him that he first needed to fight the big fights. Unlike Jermaine who actually had a grasp of that fact even though he disliked the sport.

Try to imagine what a guy like Burley would have done with the opportunities this guy has had or Langford before him? His disrespects these guys. His sense of entitlement makes my skin crawl and considering his unbelievable talent it starts to peel off. I'm also pissed off at the guy for purely selfish reasons. We dont get a chance as boxing fans to witness the special ones that have that little something extra. Next year will be half a century for me following this sport and I think I've witnessed about 10 real standouts and perhaps 5 or 6 in the same league skill wise as him. They fought everybody. When a guy with his kind of talent sits out, one feels kind of robbed or violated as a fan. I dont find him boring, I've always enjoyed the technicians but his shtick is a party crasher. Its like he's waiting everything out.

On a related note, I dont like HBO picking peoples opponents. The waters are muddy enough. Its a weird boxing era. Rigo gets stripped and black balled for being to good. Golovkin gets shafted what will end up 3 times by frauds, Kov and Stevenson cant finalize a division, the welter weight division watches itself rot with a bunch of primadonnas, Wlad and Wilder cant get any ink and Ward sits out playing musical chairs.I think its foolish and naive unfortunately to believe that Ward/Kovalev is some kind of sure thing or end game in some 3 fight deal