By Dan Ambrose: HBO has said no to a proposed fight between WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (26-0, 14 KO’s) and former WBA super middleweight champion Dimitri Sartison (30-2, 18 KO’s), according to Fightnews.com. Ward’s management had a deal made with Sartison’s team, but they were unable to go ahead with it after HBO rejected the fight.
What’s surprising is that Ward’s promoter made the effort to put the Sartison fight together, because it’s been common knowledge that HBO wasn’t interested in televising the Ward-Sartison fight. You can’t blame HBO, because it would make for bad television when you know it’s going to be a mismatch going in. Of course, HBO has a mismatched scheduled next month with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. facing Brian Vera.