Andre Ward Day: Dominance Continues Over Allan Green

by Scott Christ on May 10, 2011 2:00 PM EDT in Boxing Video

Andre Ward Day continues at Bad Left Hook as we introduce curious minds and non-diehards to the Oakland fighter who has thus far been the top star of Showtime's Super Six World Boxing Classic. On Saturday, Ward faces Arthur Abraham. Last June, he bullied and battered Allan Green, showing a unique ability to fight the exact way that opponents can't handle, much as he had against Mikkel Kessler in November 2009.

From our original recap:

Andre Ward stayed unbeaten, kept his WBA super middleweight title, and clinched a spot in the Super Six semi-finals with a totally dominant rout of Allan Green. Ward won on unanimous decision scores of 120-108 across the board, which was the same score Bad Left Hook had.

Ward (22-0, 13 KO) started a bit tight, but by the third round was cooking with gas. Most surprising was that he physically bullied and manhandled Green (29-2, 20 KO), and made the 30-year-old Oklahoman look like a club fighter. Ward threw nearly 200 more punches, landing 42 combinations compared to Green's measly six.

Ward was set after this fight to face friend Andre Dirrell, but Dirrell would pull out. Without needing to fight anyone, Ward chose to take a non-tournament fight against Sakio Bika, one of the most dangerous and avoided fighters in the 168-pound division.

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After watching replays of the way Dirrell reacted

After the late hit, I’d say he quit. Abraham grazed him late. Was it late and did Abraham deserve to be punished? Yes, but I think Dirrell wanted a way out of fighting his buddy Ward

"That was very funny about the old man basketball skills. One is lucky to escape injury when playing against those crafty, crusty sumbitches. And it’s just demoralizing when they demonstrate yet again how to use the backboard from range." - Charlie Custer

by SmittytheCutman on May 10, 2011 4:46 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

Just my 2 cents, I think Abraham-Dirrell was a pretty

ugly (oxymoron) fight. I think that Abraham’s peek-a-boo style has worked for a few fighters over the years, so long as they were punchers, at least compared to their opponents (I think of Patterson, a small guy by modern standards who fought other relatively small guys, and Tyson, who I still believe was the most unrealized HW in recent history). To me, style seems to require that at some point, a boxer opponent will just run out of gas.

Dirrell didn’t seem to gas out, boxed pretty well, and eventually frustrated Abraham, and I think that might have been the reason why that fight had so many weird shenanigans. The disqualifying shot still looks to me to be premeditated, and legitimate grounds for disqualification.

I like AA (the fighter, not the anti-drinking organization), but I can’t really envision a win against Ward. I’m afraid Abraham will get tormented, unless there is that one, clean, magical shot.

by DrRck on May 10, 2011 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions