Andre Ward is American WBA Super Middleweight Boxing Champion. He was born on February 23rd of 1984 in San Francisco, California, United States. He was often called the nickname “S.O.G.” which means “Son of God“. Ward was also considered as one of the best pound for pound fighter of the world.
He was generally appraised as 6th in Yahoo! Sports, 7th in Sports Illustrated, and 10th in The Ring Magazine. In 2004, Ward garnered a Gold Medal at the Summer Olympics.
Andre Ward was basically inspired by his father Frank Ward to pursue to the boxing industry. When Andre Ward was young, he was often told stories by his father about hard-fought battles and victories. Since then, Ward poured his body, mind, and soul to boxing and aimed to become a world boxing champion.
During his amateur boxing career in 1994, Ward set a record of 110 wins to 5 losses. He was an unbeatable fighter from year 1998 up to 2004, where he did not lose any single fight. He won the “Under 19 National Championship” in 2002. He was also a two-time United States National Champion in 2001 and in 2003 at the Middleweight division.
Ward started his professional debut in December of 2004 and made a TKO record against Chris Molina during the second round of the fight.
In February 2005, Ward won his second professional fight which was with Kenny Kost. Following on April of the same year, Ward won another bout via disqualification from his opponent Roy Ashworth. Furthermore, Ward continued to won another three fights, all via knockout. But on November 2005, Ward experienced to be knocked down for the first time of his boxing career. But despite of being knocked down on the 4th round by Darnell Boone, Ward was able to get back into the game and won via unanimous decision. Following that, Ward won a couple more fights including his TKO wins from Andy Kolle, Francisco Diaz, Roger Cantrell, Rubin Williams, Jerson Ravelo, and Shelby Pudwill.
In 2011, Andre Ward was one of the six distinct boxers who were invited to join the WBA Super Middleweight Championship.
During the WBA Super Middle Weight Championship Tournament, Ward was able to defeat other world champions including Mikkel Kessler, Allan Green (a substitute of Jermain Taylor who resigned from the tournament), Sakio Bika, and Arthur Abraham. For the last and final round of the WBA Super Middleweight Championship Tournament, Ward will fight against another world champion, an English man Carl Froch. The fight is scheduled to take place on December 17, 2011.
