{"id":579924,"date":"2025-11-19T07:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/579924\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:07:12","slug":"andre-ward-would-have-really-really-struggled-against-tony-bellew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/579924\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Ward would have \u2018really, really struggled\u2019 against Tony Bellew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShoulderRollWed Nov 19, 2025, 6:40 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s official. <\/p>\n<p>The British-ization of BoxingScene has finally reached peak retardation levels.<\/p>\n<p>dan_covWed Nov 19, 2025, 3:01 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>I think Ward is #1 SMW ever and wins easily at LHW but at CW? I honestly think Bellew maybe even stops him.<br \/>\nWard wasn&#8217;t really even a LHW, Bellew is a huge CW\/small HW really.<\/p>\n<p>The D3vilTue Nov 18, 2025, 11:08 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>At cruiserweight? <\/p>\n<p>Maybe because we don&#8217;t know what a 200lb Andre Ward would&#8217;ve looked like <\/p>\n<p>At LHW? No.<\/p>\n<p>SmashTue Nov 18, 2025, 10:02 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>a heavy weight boxer like AJ who is still in the game with a strong punch should not be in a real scrap with someone like fake paul, so its basically a show sparring match of some kind, its bad enough AJ accepting the fight but it would not go down so well if fake paul had to be carried from the ring<\/p>\n<p>Spray_resistantTue Nov 18, 2025, 9:53 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Not unless AJ does the job for him for a lucrative payday which he shouldn&#8217;t need, Paul could have the best training and best sparring of his life while AJ could not train at all and I&#8217;d still pick AJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ShoulderRollWed Nov 19, 2025, 6:40 AM UTC Well, it\u2019s official. The British-ization of BoxingScene has finally reached peak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[15225,1935,4496,4495,79,76764,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-579924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-andre-ward","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-boxing-news","11":"tag-boxingscene","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tony-bellew","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115575104702007148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}