Andre Ward DESERVED a Canelo fight!

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In Football / Soccer there is an old adage “the first five yards in your head” meaning that they could could read things a little bit faster, had a better understanding of what was happening before it happened, that's a description I think fits Ward quite well, he just saw and understood the pattern of the fight before his opponent did and capitalized on every advantage he saw.

He is an inaugural super 6 winner and one of the last truly top fighters from the old US boxing program days when Kenny Adams was involved and he was the last USA gold medalist at an Olympics (But I actually think he lost that fight)..

But he was boring and dirty. I mean, he almost sterilized Kovalev with that combo to the balls.



His entire gameplan revolved around clinching and dirty tactics, which was called his fantastic 'inside game', which was potshot single jab, rush in with his head, clinch, mix in some elbows, headbutts and lowblows and rinse and repeat.

I'm not denying he was a good boxer, but he only fought with hometown refs and judges for a VERY good reason. In a sense Ward was a hustler, his whole style was based around nullifying his opponent however he could, and that rarely led to exciting fights. Shame him and Calzaghe didn't fight as I think Calzaghe would have beaten him due to his output.

There is a strong argument that Ward wouldn't even get in the top 10 of SMW of the last 30 years. I'd be far from confident that Ward could beat RJJ, Toney, Calzaghe, Hopkins, McCallum, Benn, Eubank, McClellan, Canelo, GGG.

There's a case to say that Ward would get beat by them all.

But there is also a case to say that Ward could beat most of them. You just never truly know with undefeated fighters

BUT

• Being undefeated is not that important
• Being undefeated, when you fought nobody... is worthless
• Being undefeated, when you fought everybody... is rare, and exceptiona

There is a reason he retired all early (I mean what top boxer retires at 33 nowadays ?) at LHW he didn't want to get exposed by all the killers (Beterbiev) that were coming up in the division.