By Scott Gilfoid: WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (26-0, 14 KO’s) will be returning to action in September after having been out of the ring due to an injured right shoulder that required surgery to repair the problem. Ward is hoping to lure former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. into the ring to fight him.
If Chavez Jr. says yes, which I highly doubt, then Ward wants to fight him at the end of the year or early 2014, according to RingTV.
Ward doesn’t have a lot of options available to him unfortunately. He’s at the stage where he’s so good that none of the top super middleweights want to fight him, and he already whipped Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler. It’s not eve interesting anymore.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Ward face Chavez Jr. but I don’t Chavez Jr’s promoter Bob Arum will ever allow him to face a guy like Ward. That fight is too much of a mismatch, and Chavez Jr. wouldn’t have a realty weight advantage like he has when he fights middleweight contenders.
Ward is a super middleweight and he fights in the 170s, so Chavez Jr. would only have a small weight advantage over Ward and not nearly enough to do to him what he’d been doing against the lighter middleweights that Chavez Jr. built up his inflated resume on.
Ward isn’t happy about the World Boxing Council elevating him to Emeritus WBC champion at 167. They took Ward’s strap and put it on the line for Sakio Bika and Marco Antonio Periban to fight for next month on June 22nd at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
In the big scheme of things it really doesn’t matter all that much because Ward would have had to fight Bika sooner or later anyways, but Ward isn’t happy the WBC stripped him of the title so quickly. Bika will no doubt easily beat Periban next month and that’ll set up a Ward-Bika rematch if Ward wants to bother going after the WBC strap.
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