Andre Ward vs. Marco Antonio Periban

[Freedom2013]

Andre Ward vs. Marco Antonio Periban

http://www.BS.com/andre-ward-m ... -20--89385

Periban has just ONE win (against a low-level journeyman) in his past five fights. He was stopped in round three by James DeGale.

The fight would be in Ward's home town of Oakland.

[crusader]

Terrible. I know he's been out of the ring for a while but at this rate every fight will be a comeback and Periban doesn't belong in the same ring as an elite fighter considering his limitations and recent form of one win in five bouts.

I think Ward tried to fight Caleb Truax and Dmitri Sartison a year or two ago as well and HBO rejected each of them. Seems to have gone a bit soft since winning the SS...

[PsychoGamerTwo]

Its OK for a tune-up, but well... why watch the fight, if you already know (99%) who's gonna win? And its not very entertaining, style-wise, unlike Kovalev-Pascal as example.

[jujigatame]

Crap fight. Only way this is acceptable matchmaking is if it's a warmup and Ward fights again like 6-8 weeks later.

[ikorolev]

They could just save money and fight at Andre's gym. Not too many people will want to watch it anyway.

[ReggieDiggs]

Ugh Al Haymon strikes again

[handsofstone]

Crap fight. Only way this is acceptable matchmaking is if it's a warmup and Ward fights again like 6-8 weeks later.

Yep

[big train express]

Great fight, i'll be there.

[sucracristo]

i thought periban beat bika and jack. love and degale were legit contenders.
periban obviously not elite level but he deserves to be in the top 15 super-middles.
looks like more of a comeback fight for ward but they were talking about him fighting
a few times this year.

[Bard of Boxrec]

No matter how inferior Periban is, Ward will probably still find a way of prolonging the agony till the final bell as usual.

[GilFilmore]

Ward would be better off tuning up against Porky Medina

[ClivePatrickLyons]

Must be no other super middleweights available

[hoagylt]

I would like to see Ward fight Stevenson.Then he would be the light heavy king.Maybe after a couple fights.

[TheWigwam]

I don't mind it, Periban gave 3 decent fighters a very tough fight and I thought the DeGale stoppage was premature so he may have looked better if it was allowed to continue. Most people would look for a journeyman to get the rust off against but Periban is still a fringe contender I guess.
Surely it can't be for the belt though?

[keirw]

After so long out he is entitled to a tune up, just hope he can stay active now, alot of time wasted.

[IRLangmaid25]

At least we will now see where he should be which is in the ring, rather than outside of it commenating for HBO!!. But it is a good way for him to get back in the groove for bigger fights at Super-Middle or Light Heavy.

[ReggieDiggs]

Ugh Al Haymon strikes again

Andre Ward is a Roc Nation fighter. He has no affiliation whatsoever to Al Haymon.

Making jokes bro. Just go with it.

[ikorolev]

Hearn on Ward vs Froch:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/boxing ... paign=1490

[JCS]

They could just save money and fight at Andre's gym. Not too many people will want to watch it anyway.

Ward has been looking for a Cruiser to come down to 168 and fight at his gym... that's why he hasn't been fighting.

I guess he finally lowered his demands.

[Bard of Boxrec]

Hearn on Ward vs Froch:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/boxing ... paign=1490

So is Jay Z really going to outbid Hearn on this if Ward is serious about the fight? What do we think?