Through the newest section of All The Smoke Struggle, that includes Andre Ward and company Andre Berto and Andre Dirrell, Ward breaks down why he thinks there’s two clear nominees to be the ‘face of boxing’ these days, and a bit about their similarities. Try some excerpts from Ward under.
“If I needed to say who’s the face of boxing now, I believe the face of boxing is a two-headed monster proper now,” Ward mentioned. “I believe it’s Gervonta Davis — you can’t deny what he’s executed, you can’t deny what he generates, and you can’t deny the performances — and also you additionally can’t deny what Canelo Alvarez has executed for a really very long time.
“I believe one factor they each have in frequent is Gervonta had Floyd Mayweather, Mayweather gave a chilly alley-hoop to Gervonta, Gervonta took the alley-hoop and took it to the following stage. If you happen to take a look at the historical past of Canelo Alvarez and Oscar De La Hoya, Canelo Alvarez had an incredible alley-hoop from Oscar De La Hoya, the most important fighter within the sport at one time limit and the most important Mexican fighter earlier than Canelo got here…
“You must give each of these fighters credit score as a result of they took the alley-hoop they usually did one thing with it. Numerous fighters fumble the bag or fumbled the alley-hoop or fumbled the ball — they didn’t try this.”
