Every Picture Tells A Story (or “Much Ado About Nothing”)
By William Trillo
Photo By Ray Flores
For those of you who may have missed this past Saturday’s Super Six battle in Oakland, and are now thinking to yourselves, “Gee, I wonder how that fight between Ward & Green really went?”, you need look no further than the picture that goes with this article to get a microcosm of the entire night.
For all the hullabaloo that this Super Six Tournament is so desperately seeking this fight came down to nothing more than Andre Ward bull rushing in head first (as always) and then crowding Allan Green who backed up all that brash talking he did by doing exactly zero. In the meantime the usually good Referee Raul Caiz Sr. stood by and did less than Green during the entire fight. No warnings for head first tactics, no nothing.
Multiply that by 12.
Ward had stated before the fight that he wanted the 3 points a KO victory would have given him in this Round Robin affair and truth be told he may not have had a better opportunity to grab that KO brass ring with a sedate Green throwing no effective punches whatsoever.
Ward, the so called leader in round 2 could not drop or stop a fill in fighter who came into this fight by way of Jermain Taylor dropping out of the tournament. I repeat, THE NUMBER ONE GUY IN THIS TOURNAMENT COULD NOT STOP A FILL IN FIGHTER WHO WAS THERE FOR THE TAKING!!
If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about this Tournament then like many others you too have been brainwashed by the talking heads who are trying to convince the world that this is the greatest thing since sliced bread….IT’S NOT!!
When this tournament was announced it’s claim was that when it was over we would know who the best 168 pound fighter is. The tournament brass then picked 6 guys to fight and none of them were named Lucian Bute. In my book that makes the “best 168 pounder” claim” a farce.
In relatively the same time frame Bute has defended his title twice and both victories came via early round KO’s. That would give Lucian 6 points and make him the clear leader of the tournament if your are counting…but who’s counting? 
Since it’s inception the Super Six has produced one fighter who quit, another losing by DQ, has had two fights postponed due to injury,one venue change because of said “injury” and oh yeah… 1 KO. Super?
I can only assume that the round-robin format was adopted mostly for financial reasons: if fans were assured of seeing their favorite fighters at least three times, then the promoters would figure to prosper at the box office, and when all is said and done that’s what this thing is really all about, the promoters filling their pockets full of fight fans money and then putting on cards like the debacle that went down this weekend.
It was not good nor was it World Class, never mind Super.
And if you don’t believe maybe you should consider what Andre Wards trainer Virgil Hunter had to say after the fight…he gave his fighter a B.
So in a nutshell you got a B fighter who couldn’t stop a fill in fighter who had no business being in this tournament in the first place.
That B fighter boxing fans is your current leader in The Super Six Tournament.
Need I say more?
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Carl Froch agrees with you he said: ” It was like watching paint dry”
i don’t really watch alot of boxing these days kinda on the mma bandwagon right now, because of this reason. boxing is getting more and more boring. also i’ve watched lucian bute last two fights even though they were ko’s they were against guys who had 100lbs weights attaced to their legs and upper body. i see you guys on here are riding that bute wave, but to be honest i think he’ll lose to abraham, froch, kessler and ward.
Lucian Bute is a bum You know that will, he even got the advantage of a very long count on his home court. in fact he has really only fought in his home town except the last fight that he knocked out a washed punched out fighter. He couldn’t beat any one of the super six fighters not even green. You are no more then Hyping up an Average Bute for a big payday against a real good fighter that will knock him flat out and he will go away with a payday. I thought you knew something about boxing will. Gee
beblack…dang dude, here too?
I thought you swore off partaking of this site? You may need a good 12 Step group to get a grip on your back sliding.
No, I know nothing about boxing….golly!
kenc
Riding the Bute wave……I see a new foto chop already! Thanks!
I’m glad that finally promoters got together and put their fighters on the line. It would be so easy for the belt holders to just take a win and pick easy fights afterwards but this tournament forces them to keep fighting the top guys in their division. The writer here is clearly a hater. It’s not very easy to KO a world class fighter who is in defense mode. Had green opened up it would have been a lot easier to finish him off. Green got manhandled. Before the tournament started Bute basically got KOd by a B-level fighter in Andrade. His win over Andrade was not impressive. And don’t forget that Miranda was already beat y two guys in the tourney!!! You’re a hater and you don’t know shit about boxing son, do your homework.
Jimbo,
This tournament has been flawed since it’s inception. I point to Jermain Taylor’s inclusion in this “event” as point #1. You then have obviously faked injuries to postpone fights and that charade that had Abraham flying back and forth in multiple time zones until he was shot. The Ward vs. Green fight was an atrocity and anyone who says otherwise is wrong.
The only official B fighter here is Ward, that was made perfectly clear by his trainer.
I am a hater. True.
I hate people with a between the line agenda who throw out the term “hater” as if I don’t know exactly what you are talking about.
Homework, let’s see.
My studies tell me Andre Ward fought a fill in fighter who was not invited to this abomination of a tournament until
Jermain”Why am I in this tournament to begin with” Taylor dropped out.
The promoters got together to fill their pockets full of your loot Jimbo, don’t kid yourself.