The hits keep coming for the Bay Area’s Andre Ward. After winning the Super Six Boxing Classic and consolidating the WBA & WBC Super Middle Weight Titles he has garnered the Sports Illustrated Fighter of the Year Award. He beats out some of boxing’s finest in the likes of Manny Pacquio and Floyd Maywether.
Ward will likely defend his title next spring or summer possibly against Canadian Lucian Bute. We’ve already spoken and he’ll be back at Gamespeed getting better than ever.
Sports Illustrated: Inside Boxing
By Chris Mannix
There is a certain rhythm to Andre Ward’s game, a musical elegance gifted only to the finest performers. The technical brilliance is there, a product of a 10-year amateur career that culminated with an Olympic gold medal in 2004. There is the strength and power, speed and agility, a perfect blend of skills that have, thus far, made Ward unbeatable at the pro level. He is, as Carl Froch put it on Saturday night, moments after Ward beat him for the Super Six title, “a slippery eel,” hard, if not impossible, to cleanly hit, a fighter without concussive power but, at 168 pounds, physically stronger than the rest. He’s something else, too: SI.com’s 2011 Fighter of the Year.
It has been a banner year for Ward, one that has seen the Oakland-based boxer emerge as an heir apparent to the aging greats in the sport
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