Return of “The Contender:” Andre Ward to host; Freddie Roach and Naazim Richardson to go head-to-head as trainers

04/11/201804/10/2018 James Slater

The new series of “The Contender,” set to begin filming this spring, just got a whole lot more interesting. It … continue

Bullies and Their Excuses

03/12/201803/12/2018 Christopher Jason Young

I was just listening to the Kovalev interview and you can hear it in his tone that he is still … continue

A heavyweight comeback? – Andre Ward weighs a muscular 199 pounds, tweets he is “working on something special”

01/24/2018 James Slater

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.

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Errol Spence vs. Lamont Peterson preview

01/01/2018 Andy Brooks

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.

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Klitschko, Ward, Bradley, Cotto: They all retired this year, but which great will you miss the most?

12/29/2017 James Slater

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.

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Who would you vote for as Fighter of The Year: Lomachenko, Ward, Joshua, Crawford or Sor Rungvisai?

12/24/2017 James Slater

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!)

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Hopkins says Canelo-Golovkin rematch will be Ward-Kovalev 2 reincarnated

10/04/201710/03/2017 Rob Smith

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.

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Bellew wanted Ward, says fight got close but Ward’s demands were “a bit too much”

10/03/201710/01/2017 James Slater

Though the recently announced rematch between Tony Bellew and David Haye – set for London’s O2 on Sunday, December 17 – carries a fair amount of intrigue, it’s fair to say most fans would have been far more interested to see what would have happened had cruiserweight champ Bellew clashed with Andre Ward.

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Ward’s surprise retirement leaves the pound-for-pound NO.1 spot open – but who deserves to take it?

09/25/201709/23/2017 James Slater

Whether you were a fan of his or not and whether you will miss him or not, it is undeniable how Andre Ward left a big hole in the sport when he announced his pretty much out of the blue retirement earlier this week.

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Video: Andre Ward retires on top

09/22/2017 Rummys Corner

In somewhat of an unexpected surprise, unified light heavyweight champion of the world, Andre Ward (32-0, 16 KOs) retired from professional boxing. Ward was 33 years old, and was widely viewed as the best pound for pound boxer in the world. He is coming off of an impressive stoppage victory against Sergey Kovalev last June.

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