“There are too many people to thank,” Ward wrote. “My family, and Nigel Travis, Jamie Moore, Martin Murray and Gareth Edgar, who got me enjoying the sport again after a few years of inactivity, and all the people in the gym who I trained alongside. Not to mention my manager Lee Eaton, who got me the opportunity, and the sponsors/friends who supported me, and all punters, the people who always got tickets to watch me fight, thank you.”