By Scott Gilfoid: To show you how much better WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KO’s) was compared to Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KO’s), Ward reportedly fought with a multiple fracture of his left the entire fight in pounding out an easy 12 round unanimous decision win over Froch in the Super Six tournament last weekend.
When Ward got back to his home city of Oakland, California, he had an MRI done on his left hand, which was noticeably swollen, and multiple fractures of his third and fifth metacarpal bones on his left hand.
Ward said this to Ringtv: “I’m glad I didn’t know my hand was fractured before the fight. I just feel it was better that way. I knew something was wrong, and I knew it hurt extremely bad, but I also knew we had no choice but to move forward with the fight.”
Ward had injured his left hand a week before the fight but he bravely decided to take the fight anyway rather than postponing the fight. The injury didn’t slow Ward down too much other than causing him a lot of pain each time he would load up with left hand shots.
Ward mostly just used his left for jabbing in the fight and didn’t throw a lot of hooks. Who knows what would have happened had he had two good hands, because he gave Froch a frightful beating as it were with just one good hand working for him.
Ward is now going to take some time off to let his hand heal before he decides who he’ll be fighting next. He’s dismissed facing IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute next, noting that Bute has fought weak opposition exclusively for the past three years.
Ward would be doing Bute a huge favor by fighting him rather than letting Bute earn the shot by fighting and beating his first A level fighter.
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