Andre Ward’s Comeback: Fighting Anthony Joshua After An Eight-Year Retirement Is A ‚Ridiculous‘ Idea

Sergio Mora believes it’s a “ridiculous” concept for 41-year-old Andre Ward to come back out of retirement to combat heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. He says Ward (32-0, 16 KOs) might get harm combating the a lot greater two-time champion Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) after being retired for eight years.

Ward is a former two-division world champion, successful titles at tremendous middleweight and lightweight heavyweight. He retired in 2017 after stopping Sergey Kovalev. Though Ward had talked about wanting to come back again years in the past, he’s chosen to not. Now, he appears extra excited by returning if he can get a combat towards Joshua, whom he known as out final week on social media.

Mora on Ward’s Harmful Combat

“He’s going to be the way in which smaller man. That is going to be ridiculous. It’s a younger man’s sport, and you may get harm, particularly if you happen to’re shifting as much as combat a large,” stated Sergio Mora on the Chris Mannix channel, speaking about Andre Ward making an attempt to hustle a combat towards Anthony Joshua.

If Ward will get the combat with Joshua, it’ll assist cushion his retirement with the tens of millions he’d get. He might transfer from the dreary, desolate Dublin, California, to the extra upscale, ultra-wealthy neighborhood in Atherton, California. He might reside effectively among the many higher crust with the large payday from battling AJ in a fast return to the ring.

Ward has obtained to know he wouldn’t stand an opportunity of beating Joshua, particularly now at 41 and having been retired for eight years. The cash could be out of this world good and simply the largest payday of Ward’s profession.

“He’s nonetheless a a lot greater championship-level fighter, and Andre Ward has been retired for eight years. I might see it if it had been,” stated Mora.

Ward would stand no probability popping out of retirement and combating cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia, or the sunshine heavyweights Dmitry Bivol, Artur Beterbiev, and David Benavidez. Choosing Joshua provides Ward an excuse to inform followers after he loses. He was crushed by a heavyweight in a division he had by no means fought in.

“Individuals in boxing should actually assume Joshua is washed. You’ve obtained Jake Paul pondering he’s obtained an opportunity towards AJ. You’ve obtained Tony Yoka, and now you’ve obtained Andre Ward, eight years faraway from his final combat at gentle heavyweight, believing he’s obtained an opportunity towards AJ,” stated Mannix.

Ward’s Return for Thousands and thousands

It’s not that fighters like Jake Paul, Tony Yoka, and Ward view Joshua as over-the-hill. That is extra about cash. Preventing Joshua means a mega-million payday that you just wouldn’t get combating different guys. It’s widespread information that AJ is nearing the tip of his profession, and needs to take advantage of cash potential earlier than retiring. That’s develop into his focus now.

“Eight years out of the ring means one thing. Going as much as heavyweight means one thing. Preventing a puncher like Anthony Joshua means one thing. At his dimension going as much as that weight class, it’s inevitable that he’s going to eat a proper hand. Even towards Sergey Kovalev, he ate a proper hand, and he went down,” stated Mannix.

It will be apparent that Ward would have an opportunity of surviving contained in the ring with Joshua for greater than two or three rounds below the absolute best circumstances. Ward would want to run and maintain AJ. Even with the clinching, Ward could be at nice hazard of being hit point-blank by AJ and knocked out. It’s not like he would have the power to stop the a lot greater Joshua from wrestling an arm free, knocking his lights out with both hand.