Andre Ward boxing news
The last male American boxer to capture an Olympic gold medal, Andre Ward, will be honored tomorrow … continue
WBA super-middleweight champion Callum Smith wants the biggest of big fights. The unbeaten 28 year old who … continue
It seems Tony Bellew has set his mind and his heart on landing what would be a … continue
The new series of “The Contender,” set to begin filming this spring, just got a whole lot … continue
I was just listening to the Kovalev interview and you can hear it in his tone that … continue
What’s that old adage in boxing, they all come back? Yes, and most great fighters who call it a career and try to stick to retirement end up being unable to resist the ultimate temptation: that of fighting again. And there are plenty of people who are convinced Andre Ward is set to fight again, ending his barely five-month long retirement.
In a bout involving inactive fighters, IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. (22-0, 19 KOs) defends his belt this month against former 140lb champion Lamont Peterson (35-3-1, 17 KOs) on January 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. This is a Showtime televised match-up.
Four great fighters, all of them world champions, three of them at more than one weight class, retired from the sport this year: heavyweight king Wladimir Klitschko, super-middleweight and light-heavyweight ruler Andre Ward, four-weight ruler Miguel Cotto and light-welterweight and welterweight champ Tim Bradley.
So who was 2017’s Fighter of The Year?
It’s that time again and fans are voting, not just on the website of ‘The Bible of Boxing,’ Ring Magazine, but it seems this particular poll is the yearly one most fans get into (and of course, you don’t argue with the Bible!)
Bernard Hopkins of Golden Boy says the rematch between Saul Canelo Alvarez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin will be a “reincarnation of the Andre “SOG” Ward vs. Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev fight. Canelo will be Ward, and Golovkin will be Kovalev, says Hopkins.
Hopkins says Canelo (49-1-2, 34 KOs) will learn from the first fight against Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs), and he’ll use what he learned to expose him as not being the “boogeyman” that everyone fears.
Canelo didn’t look so great in fighting to a 12-round draw against Golovkin on September 16 in a fight televised on HBO pay-per-view at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.