Andre Ward Boxing News

NEW YORK (March 17, 2010) – As reported, WBA World Champion Andre Ward has suffered an injury and is unable to fight Allan Green on April 24. The scheduled Group Stage 2 tournament matchup between WBC world championship Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler will take place as planned on Saturday, April 24, from Herning [...]

By Jim Dower: Super middleweight contender Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s) is less than pleased with the latest postponement by World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Andre Ward for his stage 2 Super Six bout, which was supposed to take place on April 24th in Oakland, California. Ward had to pull out of the fight [...]

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 [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s) was recently chosen to replace Jermain Taylor in the Super Six tournament, and for Green’s first fight he has the bad luck of being matched against unbeaten Andre Ward (21-, 13 KO’s). That’s not good news, because Ward is coming off a huge upset of World Boxing [...]

By Dennis Broadhurst:
Froch-Kessler: I see this fight coming out with Froch on top through a hard fought decision or very late stoppage. I think Froch will struggle in the early rounds with Kessler but his chin will take him through to dominate the later rounds (9-12). I would not be suprised for Froch to be [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Greg Leon, the manager for Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s), has a rosy outlook for his fighter. In the latest Fight Camp 360 episode, Leon says “We stretch [Andre] Ward, we get three points. [Andre] Dirrell beats [Arthur] Abraham, we’re tied for the lead after the first fight.” That seems like a [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Super middleweight contender Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s) was recently picked as the replacement for Jermain Taylor in the Super Six tournament. While I think Green has good hand speed and nice power, I think he’s totally unproven as a fighter and someone who appears too confident for what he’s actually achieved [...]

Newly crowned WBA Super Middleweight Champion Andre “S.O.G.” Ward (21-0, 13 KOs) – the last American to win an Olympic boxing gold medal — will be the special in-studio guest in Bristol, CT for this week’s ESPN2 telecast of “ESPN Friday Night Fights.”

NEW YORK (Feb. 24, 2010)—The latest installment of the critically acclaimed reality series from SHOWTIME Sports® — FIGHT CAMP 360°: Inside The Super Six World Boxing Classic — returns to SHOWTIME® with Episode 4, premiering Saturday, Feb. 27, at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT.

By William Mackay: After the first stage of Showtime’s Super Six tournament some boxing fans of the opinion that former middleweight champion Jermain Taylor is the first fighter that is technically shot in the tournament. Taylor was knocked out by the hard hitting Arthur Abraham in a 12th round stoppage loss in October. The knockout [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Once beaten Andre Dirrel (18-1, 13 KO’s)l is currently rehabilitating his injured back that he hurt while training recently for his March 27th Super Six bout against unbeaten Arthur Abraham (31-0, 25 KO’s). In an interview at East Side Boxing’s On the Ropes show, the talented Dirrell had this to say: “I [...]

By Daniel Ciminera: With their Super Six bout just around the corner, all I have read anywhere so far is about how the inexperienced Andre Ward (21/0) is going to tear Allan Green (29/1) to bits in even more “flamboyant fashion than he did Kessler” when they meet on the 24th of April in Oakland, [...]

Picture: Howard Schatz – By William Mackay: The official announcement was made today that super middleweight contender Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s) will be stepping in for Jermain Taylor and fighting unbeaten Andre Ward (21-0, 13 KO’s) in the stage 2 of the Super Six tournament on April 17th, in Oakland, California. Green, 30, will [...]

EW YORK (Feb. 22, 2010)–-World-ranked contender “Sweetness” Allan Green (29-1, 20 KOs), of Tulsa, Okla., has officially been named to replace fellow American Jermain Taylor in the Super Six World Boxing Classic and will take on undefeated World Boxing Association (WBA) 168-pound champion Andre Ward (20-0, 13 KOs) in one-half of a tournament doubleheader on [...]

By Alexander Fugate: Many in the mainstream media have been insisting for years that boxing is dead. Nothing could be further from the truth. They point to the popularity of UFC and say it’s taken over boxing. That’s interesting considering in the last UFC PPV, UFC 109, the headliner Randy Couture got a whopping $250,000 [...]

By Peter Wells: After looking at Welshman Nathan Cleverly I’d like to go to the other side of the Atlantic to talk about American hotshot Andre Ward. The Californian Super Middleweight is just 25 and unbeaten in 21 with the WBA title already around his waist. Andre has entered the Super Middleweight Super Six tourney [...]

NEW YORK (Feb. 12, 2010) — The critically acclaimed reality series from SHOWTIME Sports®—FIGHT CAMP 360°: Inside The Super Six World Boxing Classic—returns to SHOWTIME with Episode 3, premiering Monday, Feb. 15, at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT.

By Scott Gilfoid: Next month, the second stage of the Super Six competition gets underway with the talented American Andre Dirrell facing Arthur Abraham in California for what could end being the most exciting match up of the tourney. Other fights in the stage two part of the tournament will have new World Boxing Association [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Super Six tournament replacement opponent Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s) appears really confident about his chances against unbeaten Andre Ward (21-0, 13 KO’s) ahead of their April 17th Super Six tournament fight in Ward’s hometown of Oakland, California. In an article at Tulsa World, Green said this about his fight with Ward: [...]

By William Mackay: Super middleweight contender Allan Green (29-1, 20 KO’s) will be stepping in to replace recently beaten Jermain Taylor in the Super Six tournament. Green, 30, has the unfortunate luck of having to face unbeaten Andre Ward who is coming off a sensational 11 round technical decision win over former World Boxing Association [...]

By William Mackay: After group stage 1 of the Super Six tournament we have former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham ahead of the pack with three points with WBC super middleweight Carl Froch and Andre Ward following closely behind with two points. Coming in with no points as of yet are Andre Dirrell, Mikkel Kessler [...]

By William Mackay: After the three group stages are completed with the Super Six tournament, four fighters with the best records will move forward to the semi finals while two of the fighters with the worst records will be eliminated. After group stage 1 of the Super Six tourney, Arthur Abraham, Carl Froch and Andre [...]

Newly crowned WBA Super Middleweight World Champion Andre Ward (Oakland, Calif.) has enjoyed a meteoric ascent to the top of the boxing world, and on Wednesday, January 6, the 25-year-old titlist will share his formula for success with local youth at two Bay Area Juvenile Detention Centers. The presentations will take place in conjunction with [...]

By Daniel Ciminera: With a long and busy year of boxing ahead of us, I thought I would make some predictions for the most talked about fights that lay ahead of us. I’ll start with round two of the super six world boxing classic, as this tournament continues to excite me as it is a [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: In the first bouts of the Super Six tournament, we saw a couple of impressive wins with talented American Andre Ward easily outclassing World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler in an 11 round technical decision, and former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham stopping Jermain Taylor in the 12th round in [...]

By Liam Fitzgerald: After the first round of bouts in the Super Six super middleweight tournament it has been interesting to see how opinions on the eventual outcome of the tournament have changed. I for one have been surprised by the results and have had to readdress my own predictions. In particular the two young [...]

By Chris Williams: At 31, it would appear that former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (28-4-1, 17 KO’s) has seen better days in his boxing career. Taylor, once arguably the best fighter in the entire middleweight division three years ago, is now more of an afterthought for many boxing fans. Taylor has been knocked out [...]

By Jason Kim: Undefeated WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (21-0, 13 KO’s) will be facing fellow American Jermain Taylor (28-4-1, 17 KO’s) on April 17th, in a Super Six tournament bout at a still to be determined location. This is great news for Taylor fans, who were concerned that he might not continue to [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Andre Ward’s impeccable 11th round technical decision over the Super Six number #1 seed Mikkel Kessler appears to have taken a lot of the air out of the sails of boxing fans of Arthur Abraham, Kessler and Carl Froch. Ward’s win over Kessler was so one-sided that you barely hear a peep [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Joe Calzaghe opted to retire recently rather than stick around and take his chances and risk his unbeaten 46-0 record against the talented trio of Andre Dirrell, Andre Ward and Jermain Taylor, not to mention some good serviceable other fighters in the Super Six tournament such as Arthur Abraham, Mikkel Kessler and [...]