The fight is Saturday, May 16, at the Oracle Arena in Oakland. Home advantage is with Ward the Olympic Gold medallist in Athens. Fight is at Super Middleweight and possibly the winner will get a shot at WBC Champion Carl Froch.
I watched a couple of fights of Ward a little while back and while he was decent, I wasn't overly impressed - infairness the one, fight he was just coming back from an injury.
I really feel that Miranda is going to have a field day with him.
Also, I think people are overly harsh on Miranda due to the 2 defeats - one against Pavlik - where he was well known to be weight drained and he looked lethargic in the fight to me. The 2nd against Abraham was a fair enough bonafide Ko loss - the man got countered by a huge hayemaker and just couldn't recover to get back into the fight. Abraham is a lazy fighter and does the rounds with lesser fighters who aren't a threat but after a fairly even fight he unleashed that bomb and Miranda unwittingly walked onto it - that same shot would have Ko'd any Middleweight.(SM)
Ok, I know Miranda lost the 1st Abraham fight but he got stiffed in Germany which does happen.
Edison for me has improved his technical and defensive skills from the man that fought Howard Eastman and Abraham 1 and even since the Pavlik fight. He has a less wreckless approach though granted that can go out of the window if the opponent is alot weaker (Vegas)
Edison has had long enough to prepare for the Ward fight so if he loses then there are no excuses.
Edison by KO - maybe later on in the fight. Ward seems like he has a shaky chin and you can't have one of those against Miranda especially of you haven't the power to hurt him.
Edison Miranda vs Andre Ward - Who You got?
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