Ward schools Kessler
November 22nd, 2009
By Sam Gregory: Tonight Andre Ward won a technical decision in the final fight of the stag one matchup of the Super Six World Boxing Classic in his hometown of Oakland, California. At the end of the fight ringside observers counted no less than five unintentional cash of heads in this fight leading to an early stoppage that went to the judge’s scorecards.
From the opening bell Andre Ward’s blinding speed proved to be too much for Mikkel Kessler as the Danish super middleweight champion never really landed anything of significance the entire fight.
In the first round both men came out cautiously testing their opponent but it didn’t take long for Ward to find a home for his Super Six bout stopped in the 11th due to a clash of heads; Ward wins TD
blistering jab almost every time it was thrown.
By the second round it became obvious that Kessler was very uncomfortable fighting in close as he began tying up with Ward more and more as the round progressed. Going into the third round Kessler was trying to find his range with the jab but Ward continually beat him to the punch.
Coming out for the fourth round Kessler had a mouse under his right eye which was later shown to be caused by an accidental clash of heads. Ward looked very confident landing his jab at will and dictating the offensive flow of the fight. Ward switched to southpaw in this round which left Kessler looking totally defenseless against the challenger’s aggressive forward attack.
In round five Kessler was starting to look desperate with his looping punches that Ward was easily able to offset with his well timed lightening fast jab and powerful right hook. Andre Ward was at the point where he almost looked overconfident when he was taking his time to measure his punches. Midway through this fight rounds were adding up for Andre Ward as Kessler was still trying to find his distance.
In round seven Mikkel Kessler was missing badly with wild looping punches. When the round was over Kessler told his cornermen he wasn’t able to see. Talk began of stopping the fight but Kessler said he wanted to continue.
In rounds eight and nine Andre Ward continued to land his punches at will; Kessler was barley doing enough to keep the fight from being stopped not landing anything of significance. After round nine a replay shows the cut on Kessler’s face looked to be caused by an accidental clash of heads.
In round 10 Ward landed more hard shots to Kessler’s head. Ward appeared to be hurting Kessler with ever shot. Ward is just landing hard nasty shots to Kessler’s face. After this round there is more talk of stopping the fight if Kessler doesn’t do more. After round ten Kessler’s corner tells him he needs a knockout to win.
A replay after this round shows another clash of heads.
Going into round eleven Kessler comes out throwing his jab than ties up; Ward punches out. The referee steps in and calls time for the ringside doctor to look at Kessler cuts. At 1:42 seconds of round 11 the referee calls a halt to the fight. they announce that they’re going to the judge’s scorecards because the fight was stopped due to the clash of heads.
The score’s are announced 97-93 on one card and 98-92 on two cards for the winner still undefeated and new WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward.
Andre Ward improves his record to 21-0 and moves one step closer to winning the Super Six matchup; Mikkel Kessler falls to 42-2.
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Fair play to Ward is what i say!
hey wes, i’m not a Lucian Bute fan but he will destroy Andrade at the end of this week. You wanna make a bet on this? Bute dominated and schooled Andrade last time and he will do this again and this time without any unnecesary risk. And in the future an interesant fight will be between Bute and the winner of the super six for the supermiddleweight supremacy.
AMERICA IS A COUNTRY BUILT ON RACISM YOU SAID, BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE CARRYING OUT THOSE RACIST ACTS WERE BRITISH DESCENDANTS,THE SAME GOES FOR AUSTRALIA, THE BRITS BROUGHT RACISM TO THAT COUNTRY ALSO.
i hope scottcrap and all those racists who jumped down roots throat just for defending himself, ALL die of cancer
Dirrel to win the supersix
carl will never be considered a true champion in the USA if he’s handed his wins on a silver plater like the one against dirrell lol!…oh P.S you racist british people are funny lol!
Yeah and you give all of us verbal diarhoea!
Scotts nursing too big a hangover to write anything.
I give myself oral pleasure.
why every1 sayin abraham will win, he did exactly what froch did to taylor
Also Lucian Bute won’t even have a belt next week. Andrade wants revenge for being robbed last time round and is definately going to knock him out. Preferably into next year as he is a coward and should be fighting in the super 6. Only instead he ducked all the fighters and slagged them off instead
I am dissapointed with some of the comments on this article. I am British and have many friends of all kinds of race. I actually betted on Ward to win as i watched some of his early fights and thought wow this guy is very good. I knew Kessler was way past his best and i do think it would have been closer without the accidental head clashes. However take nothing away from Ward he is the deserved new hampion. Also it was Lucian Bute who turned down 5 million to fight Froch not the other way round. I do think Froch will win the super 6 but some of the racist comments about other fighters are disgraceful and if Froch heard you talking like that he’d be extremely upset being the decent bloke that he is. I actually see Taylor profiting from this as i think his style has a good chance of taking the belt from Ward who does not have quite enough power to take advantage of his weaknesses in the championship rounds and then Taylor will just manage to keep the belt against Kessler. This will build things up nice for the semis. Froch will destroy Kessler before chipping a poins victory against Abrahams.
This would probably mean the semis will be a 1st place Froch rematch against 3rd place Taylor for a title unification bout and Abrahams will face the winner of Dirrell vs Ward. Who i think will be Dirrell because of his amazing speed and the lesson he learnt from his last fight against Froch. This would also be great because i think Abrahams will edge Dirrell in the next fight and then they would have a rematch in the semis. In my opinion this would be great because the final would probably then be Froch vs Dirrell as Dirrell is learning all the time and is a great fighter. Take nothing away from Ward he is great but i see him being overpowered and outboxed by Taylor in the next 1. I know all this sounds crazy but i have put money on all three fights of the super 6 so far and won so you should give the idea a run around your heads. As for the racist comments those people dont deserve the privilege of watching these warriors going toe to toe and are a disgrace to the sport
Hats of to Ward geat boxing,not bad punch power too. Although i wasnt impressed with the ref at all who seemmed very biased, even so Ward would still have won.
Now i know of a topic that will come up from our nut job Scotty and that will be “does Wards win over kessler discredit Calzaghe?” i myself dont think so, as Ward has just entered his prime, whereas Calzaghe was way past his prime when fighting kessler and Kessler was at his peak when fighting Calzaghe also styles make fights, even though ward says he has no style. I`d be interested in time to see Bika fight Ward, if people get my point.
abraham will win he’s the biggest puncher and has the best chin. Froch cant fight and will not be able to stand toe to toe with abraham.
I have watched Ward fight before and he is well known in sparing to do a lot of head butts and elbows when inside and his big punch is average at best. If the next fighter stay’s away from his head he schould win with ease and send Ward back to the hood bankrupt…..
Kessler will rebound and beat Froch. Froch’s skills are limited.
I’m English and watned a kessler win last night but fair play to Ward, he was fantastic.
Made the Dane look old and one dimensional, I think Ward could beat anyone in the Super six.
Good Win.
HAHA I bet you Gilfoids fingers are burning as he frantically types his new “I Told You So Article”, it just wouldn’t surprise me at all. It would be completely childish for him to now brag about predicating (Or guessing in his case) the outcome of this fight after getting so many previous ones wrong.
Unfortunately some people are deluded in this way.
Go Scotty go, let those fingers burn as you type away with a smile on your face, but remember and this cant be helped, you will always be a BOWLER HAT
Oh i dont know borisz64., Froch got very lucky against Dirrell and I had Abraham winning on points by a good few rounds before the KO.
I think Dirrell is certainly not out of the competition and i think he will of learned alo from the Froch fight.
I think the whole tournement is quite open now. Before it all kicked off i said Abraham was guna be the weakest. Now ive seen them all fight id say Abraham has been the most impressive. Though so was Ward last night.
ROOTS – Not all Brits are like Scottcrap, so I suggest you step away from the keyboard and reflect on you comments moron, basically less of the crap mate. As for SCOTTCRAP, it’s only a sport after all, less of the racism, it’s not wanted or needed. Ward did well and should be congratulated for his win, but the rough house tactics he used won’t work with Froch, that will just play into his hands. I cannot believe some of the morons on both sides of the pond who comment on here….get a life!
To all the people that have gone completely off subject and just gone ranting at each other.
What did you think of the fight? I dont know how bad Kessler was but if thats the same Kessler that gave Calzaghe such a tough fight you gotta give Ward alot of credit.
Can you imagine if hed had a bit more venom in his shots.
As I said before the fight:
Ward is olympic champ, and becoming so is more difficult than becoming world champ with the professionals.
Are you olympic champ you are not only good, but very good, and Ward showed that yesterday.
As danish I hoped Kessler would prevail, bu Ward was just in another leaque.
Who the favorit now is to win it all?
I must say Ward and Carl Froch….Abraham was losing to Taylor in my opinion before he got that lucky punch. He really is not a good enough fighter to win on points over Froch, Ward, Dirrel or Kesser. Abrahams only chanse is keep winning on KO, because he indeed has the hardest punch of them all.
For me the two best as of now are Ward and Froch.
The pair of them are tossers superbear. well done ward I called it the other way before the fight, but he proved me wrong. I picked cotto to. Talk to me if you want to lose ur money!!!
America is a country born out of racism.
Britain is a country that invented Boxing.
Roots, you havent got any! Keep looking though, Turds like you just won’t flush away!
ROOTS – DROP DEAD YOU C**T
Why is everybody on Roots case.What about imbecile Scottcrap!
Roots I think you are getting muddled with Nationalistic and racist. What race do you think David Haye is? You don’t know the race of the people that are writing in do you?
Fair play to ward, I didn’t see him winning, but his performance definately impressed me. Although I was really dissapointed with kessler, he just didn’t turn up and I also thought the referee also gave a poor account of himself. But take nothing away from ward, even though he was helped no end by the accidently clash of heads, he deserved to win and was doing so comfortably. I think he can go a long way, although it would have been nice to see his chin tested, but he moved excellently. I don’t see froch causing him any problems at all.
I thought the super 6 mandate called for a referee from an impartial country? So how come this result is allowed. Yes certainly Ward used his head in this fight along with his elbows and everything else and the referee allowed it. Absolutely disgraceful.
ROOTS!! you are obviously a complete cretin and no way a boxing fan, just a thug/loser more like. wanting to see a man killed in a boxing ring! WTF? go back to the gutter you retard.
fair play to him, kessler is no great boxer, id like to see abraham win it, Scott got one right at last, ha ha i told you Scott, hang in there & eventually you would get one right
This was an interesting headline before the fight :
“Head 2 Head – Mikkel Kessler vs. Andre Ward”
Yes indeed, only a total of 5 times.
Ward looks to be a great boxer indeed, lacks any real power from what I see though, great jab of course and speed. He wont get away with holding in th inside and punching if he fights elsewhere though.
Kessler rusted and in need of some WD40 and a slap on the face for make us Euro’s site up till half 3 to watch a poor performance
Many thanks
You can man, just say it.
ROOTS, To say that all british people are racist slime bags is in fact a racist statement in itself and just highlights how unintelligent you actually are…..Im guessing you’re around 12 to 14 and full of pimples!!!
Maybe Ward can ask Jesus to forgive him for the amount of head-butting and holding and hitting he was doing throughout the fight ?
I was impressed by Ward’s speed and combination punching, but extremley dissappointed by his often very dirty tactics. Ward constantly leaned in with his head … and it was entirely intentional and all part of their game plan. I think Kessler still showed what a strong guy he is … just wondered how much of the same Ward could take if he was on the recieving end ?
I still think Abraham is going to be the fighter to beat … Froch will give Ward trouble, despite his open style.
lets get back to reality,kessler has been and stayed wba champion for many years due to fighting dead beats and bums,when he didnt and fought 2 people who are decent in calzaghe and ward,,he lost,,you will see what i mean in copenhagen,when carl froch will not only beat kessler he will beat him badly as he hits like a mule and his strenth and chin are pound for pound the best in boxing,yes he is not the most gifted of fighters but he has far too much in his armoury for any other fighter in this super 6,ward and dirrell may test him but he will demolish kessler and abraham….
ROOTS please don’t judge us all as one. i’m a british fight fan and not a racist slime bag. well done to Andre Ward excellent boxing i didn’t think he would win but he proved a lot of people wrong and good luck to him. if Ward doesn’t get ko’d he’ll win this tourney easily, no one will beat him on points.i’m a Froch fan but Ward is a far better boxer the only chance Froch would have would be to ko Ward if he could catch him. Well done Andre Ward new world champion
Is it Rat or Root you are meant to put a opinion on the fight not your racist rantings join the black panthers you lemon.
The English white boy will win the tournament.Ricky has done it all so what you ranting about.
Like i said before, Ward won the fight but that means nothing for Scott Gilfoids writing abilities as he always backs the American and sooner or later by the law of averages one has to win! Credit to Ward but not to Gilfoid….
Roots shut the F!!k up if you have nothing more constuctive to say apart from your same old Racist puke.
ROOTS you say ALL Brits are Racist. You realise that is a racist statement do you? Making an observation about a group of people based solely on their ethnicity is racist, or have you met all the British people ?
No boxing fan wants to see a man killed in the ring, so this is really the wrong forum for you.
Congrats to Ward.
Thats not nice towards British people Roots. Dont forget your Roots. Your british too.
SCOTTTRAP I LIKE IT WHEN BRITS LIKE YOURSELF SHOW YOUR TRUE COLOURS.YOU BRITS ARE ALL RACIST SLIME BAGS.THE ONLY WAY FROCH CAN WIN A FIGHT IS WITH CORRUPTED OFFICIALS.6THESE BRITISH FIGHTERS WITH THEIR PRIMITIVE SKILLS ARE ALWAYS GOING TO BREAK SOMEONE IN HALF BEFORE THE FIGHT,AND FULL OF EXCUSES AFTER THE FIGHT ALA HATTON. BY THE WAY I WANT FATTON TO MAKE A RETURN,I REALLY WANT TO SEE THAT FAT LOUSY BRITISH SLIME KILLED IN THE RING,THAT WOULD MAKE MY DAY EVERYTIME.
He ducked Lucian Bute in the summer after his lucky win over Taylor. Froch is a big mouth fighter with 0 skils. Ward and Dirrel and the retaired Calzaghe are in another league. They have boxing skils. Froch has no boxing skils. He is a dumb.
yes scottcrap because Froch is a limited fighter. Froch is nobody.
Flying headbutts and being allowed to hold and punch in the inside is a great advantage.
On the other hand being a boxing fan it is easy for me to say that ward is a very good boxer indeed, he won the fight and thats just about all there is to it.
I wanted Kessler to win, but that is boxing, someone gets beat.
Madness you dirty little p r i c k. Froch beat the little b i t c h Dirrell fair and square. All this talk of robbery is bollo*ks. It was a very close fight so how can it be. Froch won the fight so stop complaining. On Ward, he beat an old fininshed hasbin, big deal. Froch will kill ward. He’ll bully that girl around like the little bit*h, Scott Gilford.
Scott didnt you get everything else wrong, law of averages still makes you a moronic fool.
Didn’t I tell you that Kessler would lose? Now it’s Froch’s turn to get schooled. Kessler may have looked horrible against Ward, but he’s more than good enough to beat the likes of Froch.
Froch is going to destroy ward! 100%
If you punks think Ward trades with Carl then he will be known as HOSPITAL WARD. lol.
Pascal is a stronger fighter than Ward and look what happened there.
I always knew Froch would clean up this division, and in a way that would bust all the Afromericans brain cells in the process. Dirrell had to run to save his 5 sick0 cells, good for you, bloodclot.
This result has shaken the weight division now.
With one result Rule Britannia, Carl Froch will rule the slaves!
brittish boxing fan here congrats to ward sounded like he schooled kessler i also had kessler to win i knew ward was fast but i just thouhgt he was to young for kessler i think kessler has never been the same since the calzaghe fight a good chance for ward to win this now only abraham and froch in the way if ward was to win id love to c joe calazghe make a come back to fight him his style suits joe c and i think joe would win but again gongrats to ward cant wait to watch the fight ward could have a new fan
He certainly did a job on Kessler. Very very good. Kessler tried to live with him but was beaten to the punch by a quicker and more accurate boxer.
The butts did leave their mark on Kessler but im never guna say thats the reason he lost. Ward looked bigger, faster, younger and more skilled. He looked like the champion in there.
Dirrell impressed the hell out of me for 6 rounds, then went to pot, Ward impressed the hell out of me all night. If Ward was a bigger puncher hed be lethal.
I did predict a Kessler win like most people but he just wasnt accurate enough and couldnt get to grips with Ward at all.
Was it ring rust? was it the headbuts? I just think he didnt look in Wards league. Well done man that was a FANTASTIC performance.