Andre Ward retired from the sport of boxing with a rare perfect record, but he has now revealed that one man would light a fire enough to get him back through the ropes.
The American was unified champion at both super-middleweight and light-heavyweight, beating the likes of Mikkel Kessler, Carl Froch, and Sergey Kovalev. During his reign at 175lbs, he was considered the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.
Ward recently answered a question via social media: Do you miss boxing and if you came back, who would you fight?
“Most days, I don’t miss it. I’m very content doing what I’m doing in life right now. Who would I fight? That’s the problem. It’s a lot of names out there but it’s not a lot of names that make sense.
“There’s one name that I brought up before that when you say that name I can see myself fighting him. Present day. Today. If the business was right and everything was right on that front, me and Anthony Joshua.
“That’s a fight that I would take at Wembley Stadium. It’s a dangerous fight for my legacy, it’s a dangerous fight across the board. But that’s a fight that would get me in the gym and get me in the mindset that I need to be in to go to war. It’s Anthony Joshua. I know he’s getting ready to fight Jake Paul, I ain’t talking about that. I’m talking about a real fight.”
Anthony Joshua is coming towards the end of his career, with perhaps three fights to go depending on how things play out. He is yet to return to the ring after a devastating knockout loss to Daniel Dubois, though is currently plotting his comeback. As Ward mentions, Jake Paul is bizarrely in the mix, though fans really want to see a long-awaited clash with Tyson Fury.
Ward has previously spoken about a fight with the two-time heavyweight world champion, revealing that he had been offered a two-fight plan of Tony Bellew and then ‘AJ’ after his rematch with Kovalev in 2017, though he ultimately decided to retire.
