Andre Ward aims for spectacular victory over Abraham

PanARMENIAN.Net - This week’s 113th edition of On the Ropes Boxing Radio featured an exclusive interview with WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (23-0, 13 KOs) who is scheduled to face Arthur Abraham (32-2, 26 KOs) in the Semi-Finals of the Super Six Boxing Classic on May 14.

“I’m locked in on fighting the best Arthur Abraham and not only winning, but winning spectacularly on May 14,” the boxer said.

Dwelling on Abraham’s fight against Stjepan Bozic, he noted, “Abraham he wasn’t supposed to take that fight. From a contractual standpoint he was not supposed to take that fight. So why he was allowed to, I don’t understand that. With that being said, yeah I was extremely worried because just as easily as his opponent got hurt, he could have been hurt. I’m sure my team would have made sure that we kept that date, but I didn’t want any more replacements. I want to fight the guys that are in the tournament. So it would have just been disappointing if anything, but he took the fight and it lasted a round and a half or almost two rounds and I don’t really know how much that did for him.”

“Personally, I don’t think Abraham gained much at all. Look at it like this, if he’s in a tough fight for ten rounds it really doesn’t benefit him to come right back and to fight against me a couple of months later. If he would have gotten a first round knockout, a lot of people would have said he’s back with a spectacular knockout, but it still wouldn’t have benefitted him. He’s getting a false sense of security by fighting a guy who, from the research I’ve done, was a former sparring partner of his. So they knew each other very well. To me personally, it doesn’t really work like that. The guy he fought was not Andre Ward and we have totally two different styles and I just don’t think that’s a good barometer to see where he’s at by taking the tune-up fight,” Ward said, eastsideboxing.com reported.