Sullivan Barrera offered Ward fight

[kafkod]

Yeah, HBO declined a couple of his choices in the past.

They will show the fight as long as he's fighting someone decent, they don't even have to be great or anything.

Actually, HBO too is guilty of some mismatches. Who was that one bum Kovalev fought. That guy was awful.

bernard hopkins? lol naw but yeah some arab dude or something like that idk.

Najib Mohammadi. He wasn't a pick, he was Kovalev's mandatory for the IBF title.

[Eastcoast]

Yeah, HBO declined a couple of his choices in the past.

They will show the fight as long as he's fighting someone decent, they don't even have to be great or anything.

Actually, HBO too is guilty of some mismatches. Who was that one bum Kovalev fought. That guy was awful.

Harold Lederman is on 'The Next Round' and just confirmed that HBO doesn't have a 'right of refusal' for ppv undercard fights. That's how we almost got Ward vs Brand/Dunn/Murdock on Cotto/Alvarez.

[kafkod]

Is this Golovkin's student?

They train together. Here's Golovkin teaching Barrera how to control a clinch by using his head. He'll need to remember this if he fights Ward!

[-PBP-]

Barerra can fight. Good **** baby!!

[b00g13man]

Good. Make it happen.

[LA_2_Vegas]

Sure, put a rush on things, but not in the manner that we don't see Kov-Ward. It should be a calculated rush that will "prepare" Ward for the Kovalev test, not get him beat before he steps in the ring against Kov.

Kirkland, Gamboa, and Dirrel were all rushed to big fights to fast, IMO. Although S. Barrera isn't the top LHVWT, I think he can clip Ward and throw a wrench in the big plans. But if he wins, it won't be because he's the better fighter, it'd be because there was not enough oil in the engine.

I misunderstood what the point you were trying to make, I see your other post now about Kirk, Gamboa, and Dirrell. You're talking about not rushing into someone like Barerra. Normally, I would agree with you. Actually a month ago I would have agreed with you as the fight you are suggesting should have taken place on the Cotto-Canelo, on the undercard, where a warm-up fight belongs. I supported that idea because I was somewhat entertained by Ward-Smith and wanted to see more of him in a fight like that before the end of the year. That way he got a tune-up and HBO's 2016 budget/dates wouldn't have been used on that kind of fight. They're getting tight with their money now and he wasn't going to get another Smith as a headliner.

It's too bad because his fight couldn't have been any more uneventful than the Rigo fight..in the Smith fight he was coming forward a lot of the time, sitting down on punches, no clinches whatesoever. I think he missed on the chance for that low level fight before someone like Barerra.

Ward has been down this path a couple of times already and there isn't a lot of political capital for him to spend with the public. It's a pretty good fight - a fight unto its own like it should be - I want to see Kov/WArd but I have a desire to see Ward tested now, it's been long enough. If he loses, it is what it is.

[Eff Pandas]

Hope this happens. Nice to see Ward finally being linked with respectable opponents in world class competitive fights again.

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They train together. Here's Golovkin teaching Barrera how to control a clinch by using his head. He'll need to remember this if he fights Ward!

This video...

First of all, why are they doing this without headgear? You know, **** happens and one could get cut or something. Second of all, why are they doing this by a sink and washer/dryer? And third, I see Golovkin has been watching Ward.

[sicko]

Been rumored that Ward Debut fight at 175 was going to be a big one, I hope this gets done!

[Chollo Vista]

I misunderstood what the point you were trying to make, I see your other post now about Kirk, Gamboa, and Dirrell. You're talking about not rushing into someone like Barerra. Normally, I would agree with you. Actually a month ago I would have agreed with you as the fight you are suggesting should have taken place on the Cotto-Canelo, on the undercard, where a warm-up fight belongs. I supported that idea because I was somewhat entertained by Ward-Smith and wanted to see more of him in a fight like that before the end of the year. That way he got a tune-up and HBO's 2016 budget/dates wouldn't have been used on that kind of fight. They're getting tight with their money now and he wasn't going to get another Smith as a headliner.

It's too bad because his fight couldn't have been any more uneventful than the Rigo fight..in the Smith fight he was coming forward a lot of the time, sitting down on punches, no clinches whatesoever. I think he missed on the chance for that low level fight before someone like Barerra.

Ward has been down this path a couple of times already and there isn't a lot of political capital for him to spend with the public. It's a pretty good fight - a fight unto its own like it should be - I want to see Kov/WArd but I have a desire to see Ward tested now, it's been long enough. If he loses, it is what it is.

Fair points, I can see where you're coming from.

Another thing to think about is, let's say HBO loses money on the first few fights of Ward's contract against, for arguments sake, the guy's I mentioned early in this thread. Do you think they'll make their money back and then some in the Ward-Kov ppv?