Ward's ambition to fight at heavyweight

[TitoFan]

Translation:

He wants to go to the shittiest division in boxing today, where he'd have a chance to make a splash. Besides... HW is where fighters that don't want to make weight anymore go to die. Look at James Toney. He became a huge, fat, poor excuse for an athlete at heavyweight. But he felt he could use his God-given talents in a division that frankly has a lot of trash in it.

I tired of seeing fighters gravitate to the HW division to make a buck. That's why the division is as shitty as it is... very little good talent, and a place for aspiring fighters who've made their mark somewhere else and now want to bloat up like pigs. Hell... Pacquiao would probably go for it if he weren't so damn short.

Basically the HW division is filling up with old, retread has-beens (Holyfield, McCall, Botha, Bowe, etc, etc, ad nauseam)... and with bloated little guys who see the potential big payday. Then you've got a David Haye who runs at the mouth (by the way, another cruiserweight who made the jump) but doesn't make it happen with the Klitschkos. And finally, you've got the Klitschkos themselves... who will soon retire out of sheer boredom. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!?

And now WARD wants to be a heavyweight? What's next... a mass exodus into the division? Are we going to see these former superstars become fat and out of shape and move into this already sorry division?

Sorry... just venting.

[Spicoli]

Um. No.

[No Contest]

I take that statement as he may be having trouble making supermiddle. He's had a couple fights in recent years where he's been over the supermiddle limit. He should definately test the waters at light heavy first, if he does alright there, then yeah skip cruiser(barren wasteland) and go for a heavyweight slowpoke.

[NUCLEAR BULL]

i think prob most guys who are now in there late 20's who are boxer prob used to dream of being heavyweight champion of the world when they were youngsters. 15-20 years we had tyaon, holyfield, lewis, bowe all main eventing plus the likes of mercer, golota, botha, mccall, briggs, moorer....tua, ruiz, ibeabuchi( what a waste) byrd and some others all adding taste to the divison.....now its a waste land