Unified light heavyweight boxing champ Andre Ward is fine with boxers talking smack, and he'll gladly take on all challengers, but he believes there are certain forms of disrespect they ought to leave out of the sport. The 33-year-old undefeated titlist didn't take well to dealing with bigoted tweets from Sergei Kovalev, and he wasn't feeling a slip of the tongue that has drawn Conor McGregor scrutiny.
"I don't like that boy word. I don't like that," Ward told TMZ on Thursday, July 13. "The thing about boxing is that you've got a date...and Conor's gotta see him." Ward wouldn't engage the matter further, choosing to simply leave his feelings on the comment at his plain disagreement with it.
Ward's position on Conor's remark comes one day after Floyd finally expressed what he felt about being on the receiving end of the demeaning label. Floyd acknowledged that racism still exists during a brief encounter with a TMZ reporter, but says he is too focused on boxing to pay Conor's words any mind.
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