Ward to postpone fight with Green due to knee injury
March 15th, 2010
By Eric Thomas: It has been reported by Dan Rafael in the latest boxing news from ESPN that WBA super middleweight champion Andre ward (21-1, 13 KO’s) will be postponing his April 24th stage 2 Super Six fight against once beaten Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s) because his right knee is having some issues in training. This is the same right knee that the 26-year-old Ward previously had surgery on. The knee will have an MRI test conducted on it on Tuesday, but as of now, it doesn’t seem likely that surgery will be needed.
If the tourney loses Ward, who defeated Mikkel Kessler by an 11 round technical decision in November, it would be a crushing blow. With Taylor and Ward, the remaining fighters would be Abraham, Carl Froch, Allan Green, Andre Dirrell and Mikkel Kessler. There would have to be a replacement picked to step in for Ward. Who knows who that might be, but it wouldn’t be someone as good as Ward that’s for sure.
Ward says that he started training with too much running and instead of working into it slowly, Ward overdid it and injured his right knee. His doctor, after examining Wards knee, advised him to rest and rehabilitate the knee for the next four to six weeks.
Andre Dirrell also sustained an injury recently, hurting his back while training and causing his fight with Abraham to be moved to March 27th. Hopefully, that fight isn’t further postponed. The April 24th date will still have the Super Six fight between Carl Froch and Kessler in Denmark.
Ward dominated Kessler in a shocking win in Oakland, California on November 21st last year. Ward not only beat Kessler, he totally dominated him, beating him like he’s beat some of softer opponents. Kessler later complained about a series of head butts that he received in the fight that caused cuts over both of Kessler’s eyes. After that win, Ward looked like a shoe in to beat Green in his fight in April.
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I have Green winning against Ward. This is going to be a great fight if it does happen. Even though Green suffered a lost to Edison Miranda and he was knocked down on and older fight and came back and beat that boxer to a pulp he is 29-1 with 20KO. He is the harder hitter. He has the faster jab between the 2 and he keeps his body tighter when throwing punches.
Ward has a wider stance and he commits his body to fully to a punch leaving himself too open. Green power will get in there and Ward could get knocked out. Green is a huge threat in this tournament.
Ward is scared of of Allan we new if him and this bulls injury befor it was spoken on it’s made up he doesn’t want the fight he wants to keep his belt a Lil while longer Allan is my blood brother I’m in the corner bald head dude thts me ward was gona be sleep in the first he and his team knows this he will end up pulling out
Green will beat Ward.
It’s not a scam and the injury is obviously real. Ward was practicing his running…
If Ward pulls out of this tournament it will definitely effect the credibility for the overall winner I don’t see a worthy replacement I mean the way this tourney is going if any more fighters decide pull out there’d be nothing super about this tournament for gods sake each fighter has only had one fight so far
Well a fight against Sakio Bika can be made then. Ward is out on knee injury so a fight between Green and Bika should go down. Bika is a Champion and Green isn’t so a fight between these two should happen.
Green will probably beat Ward and his ugly style.
Another scam did he ask Dirrell for advice in how to postpone a fight.
It’s another cat and mouse game that the two collegues an Olympic teammates are contemplating a cat and mouse game instead of being strong and strongly going forward into the tourney.
sounds to me a little like hes running from green well have to see i like green alot though i dont think he will win it come close though may be 3rd or 4th
Well said El Asesino agree with ya. ARTHUR ABRAHAM all tha way.
Get better Ward! No rush come back 100% to win this damn tournament!