Bika vs. Ward: Can Sakio beat up on Andre on the inside?
October 18th, 2010
By Scott Gilfoid: Showtime has picked an excellent choice for WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward’s next fight on November 27th at the Oracle Arena, in Oakland, California. Instead of signing on contenders like Brian Magee, Dmitri Sartison and Daniel Geale to face Ward, they’ve gone and chosen a rough and tough inside fighter in 31-year-old Sakio Bika (28-4-2, 19 KO’s).
Ward is very similar to Bika, only he’s a lot faster, and not as hard a puncher. Ward also is a better outside fighter than Bika. He doesn’t depend completely on fighting at close range the way that Bika tends to do. Ward likes to take advantage of fighters that have no inside game, like Allan Green and Mikkel Kessler.
Neither of those fighters had any real skills on the inside, and Ward took advantage of that by dominating both of them in his two previous fights in the Super Six tournament.
Ward is already guaranteed a place in the semifinals of the Super Six tourney because of the four points he’s picked up in his two fights, and his extra two points he received for the forfeit of Andre Dirrell, who was supposed to have been Ward’s next Super Six tournament opponent.
The Bika fight will enable Ward to pick up more fans by showing what an amazing fighter he is and give him a chance to show different areas of his game. Bika is going to lose and lose badly. But he’s going to make it interesting by trading with Ward at close range and turning the fight into a war. Unfortunately for Bika, he won’t have the fast hand speed or the defensive skills needed to beat a talent like Ward.
Bika does good against some fighters, but struggles against fighters with good boxing skills like Lucian Bute and Joe Calzaghe. Bika did a decent job against Calzaghe, and had him flustered early in the fight with his tough inside game. Ward won’t be bothered in the least by Bika’s inside tactics. Ward will give him the shoulder, and maybe the head, and back him up to the ropes where Ward will punish him with huge shots.
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Realistic has summed this fight up.
Ward will be carried into the ring much like he’s been carried throughout this entire tournament.
The super 6 should have just been named ..
‘THE ANDRE WARD MANAGEMENT PROJECT TO CREATE AN AMERICAN SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPION……AT ALL COSTS’
If I were Froch, Abraham, Green etc, I would pull out of this thing ASAP. They all have legal grounds to do so based purely on the VERY preferential treatment ‘Fraud’ Ward has received right from the start.
1- All hometown fights
2- Hometown judges AND refs.
3- Forfeit points that no one else received.
4- Unpenalized behaviour that would have resulted in DQ
elsewhere.
SHOWTIME, LIKE WARD, YOU ARE A JOKE.
ward will win if he stays outside he will out box the older bika . if the fights on the inside it will turn into a head butting contest. and Bika will be DQ in oakland.why is every one so mad at ward/at keast he comes to fight.thats more then I can say for Direll, his run away safety style caused him to lose against froch. he pretented to be knocked out against abaham a fight he was winning easy .Then he pulled out against ward.Dirrell has some talent but lacks courage.
BIKAS NO ANGEL– IN THE CONTENDER FINAL HE KNOCKED THE OTHER GUY DOWN . WHEN ON THE CANVAS BIKA PUNCHED HIM ONCE THEN FOR GOOD MEASURE HE HIT HIM AGAIN. BOTH PUNCHES WERE HITS. NOT BRUSHES LIKE ABRAHAM DID. HIS BACK WAS TO THE REF BUT HE HAD TO SEE HIS ARMS SWINGING. THE REF JUST SENT HIM TO A CORNOR. CK IT OUT ON U TUBE.
Realistic hit it on the head. He nailed it***WARD IS FOOLS GOLD****
Bika terrorises Oakland scores stunning upset.( could this be real headlines,or just a aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaantonio tarver dream?
as its in oakland bika will need a Knockout. Its possible but not not likely.
Would love to see ward fight in nottingham or germany, he is unproven away from home
SCOTT WOULD YOU LIKE WARD TO BACK YOU UP TO THE ROPES AND PUNISH YOU WITH HUGE SHOTS?
RINGSIDE SUCH A LONG POST ABOUT MALE GENTILE MAYBE YOU SHOULD BRANCH OUT AND HIRE SOME MALE PROSTITUES . IN THIS WAY YOU COULD SAMPLE YOUR MERCHANDISE AND FELL THE RELIEF AND FREEDOM OF SUBMITTING TO YOU TRUE NATURE .
Ward is being carried into the ring by showtime to make sure he has full energy for the fight, they are building a house next to the Ward boxing arena in Wardsville,Oakland just in case he gets homesick crossing town on fight night. A team of Sherpas will carry Ward into the ring so he loses no energy, while Bika will be made to carry a 50lb rucksack across the country all the way into the ring.
If Bika hits Ward he will be penailsed, and just in case Showtime are going to tie his hands behind his back.
Sakio Bika will KO Ward
RINGSIDE CHECK OUT THE NEXT ARTICLE BY GILFOID.I THINK YOULL FIND INTERESTING POSTS.
RINGSIDE IS CLEARLY AN EXPERT ON MENS GENITAL . I THINK HE AND HIS FREND WHOS A HOOKER WITH AIDS WHO WORK S FOR HIM– PIMP–SPEND HOURS ON END TALKING WARD AND MASCULINE GENITAL. POSSIBLY A BOOK SOON. STAY TUNED.
Ringside what happened?A few days ago you were leaving us to work on the fight with Ward. You were going to check back on occasion. You were claiming to have respect for everyone. Now your here FUMING. All guns blazing . Fire and smoke erupting from you like a flame thrower. Ringside what happened?
a sensable boxing fan knows of Wards suppremicy.
I want to see this fight. I cant say bika can win but I hope to see something interesting there.
Ward is roundly overrated, but Bika has no chance to beat him in Oakland. Andre will head butt him a couple times, Bika will butt in response, and the referee will penalize Bika. Rinse, repeat, and — viola!!! Bika is disqualified while Ward goes home with belly full of home cookin’.
Sakio Bika is definatley not as technically sound as Ward, however he is more agressive, stronger & his awkaward style will be too much for Ward to handle. I hope Bika knocks that bum out cold !!!
Bika is gonna win this… hes the roughest fighter out there and way more a master of it than Ward… ward is a terrible fighter who wrestles and is awful to watch… I cant wait for him to get a taste of his own medicine
@ Realistic
If it were to be a headbutting contest I would put all my money on Bika, he has a forehead like a damn Klingon lol I’m actually hoping Ward tries these dirty tactics against Bika because I think Ward will come off 2nd best.
I think Ward will win this fight but he won’t look good doing it. Its hard to look good against Bika’s style of boxing.
Ward is going to win, Showtime/Wardtime have built the super six around Ward and Oakland, they would in no way jeopardise their little project, which is why he will be allowed to head butt and man handle his way to victory.
I hope Bika KO’s Ward purely on the basis that Ward is being sold to me by Showtime and I don’t like being sold fools gold.
Showtime need Ward to be a big deal, they’re bank rolling this home town bum and it’s disgraceful how blatantly they are doing it.
i hope sakio ko him but i just no ward will hug his way 2 victory
Bika will dominate. He is much stronger & has a better inside game. You cannot bully him.
The only way he will lose is if Ward fights on the outside the whole time.
Although ward should sail past Sakio I think a good question could be posed. Will Ward look better against an ‘older’ Sakio than Calzaghe looked against a ‘younger’ version?
Bika can fight well in the trenches and can certainly pack a punch, should be an interesting contest and much better imo than the Green fight.
Scotty boy, why do you ask so many questions? Every article I read from you is a question.
And to answer your question, you know Ward is going to win.