my boy Degale isnt scared
future unification fight
good to see the SOG Gang back on your feet
Degale should get at Groves again. I think he knows groves got his number,, and if he loses again, his career is over
Free at last: Andre Ward signs with Roc Nation
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Degale should get at Groves again. I think he knows groves got his number,, and if he loses again, his career is over
Andre Ward joins Roc Nation Sports
Updated: January 9, 2015, 12:42 PM ET
By Dan Rafael | ESPN.com
NEW YORK -- Super middleweight champion Andre Ward, who has fought only twice in the past three years -- mainly because of a protracted contact battle with Goossen Promotions -- is about to get a lot busier.
Music mogul Jay Z's Roc Nation Sports, in its biggest move yet since opening a boxing promotion division in August, signed Ward on Friday, shortly after Ward worked out an agreement to part ways with Goossen Promotions.
Details of how the split with Goossen Promotions came about after years of legal battling were not disclosed, but Tom Brown of Goossen Promotions clearly was not happy with the result.
"That chapter is closed. I've moved on," Brown told ESPN.com.
Roc Nation Sports' move comes only hours before it will promote its first fight card on Friday (Fox Sports 1/Fox Deportes, 10 p.m. ET) at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, which is headlined by welterweight prospect Dusty Hernandez-Harrison against Tommy Rainone. Ward will be ringside for the show.
"We have signed Andre Ward and it's something we're very excited about," David Itskowitch, chief operating officer of Roc Nation Sports' boxing division, told ESPN.com. "It's just the beginning for us but it's a game-changer. He's one of the best fighters in the world. Everything is coming together for us. On the same day we are having our first event, at Madison Square Garden, we are announcing our first really huge signing."
Ward (27-0, 14 KOs), widely regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world not named Floyd Mayweather Jr., will instantly become the face of Roc Nation Sports' boxing franchise, one day after the company completed a deal to buy promoter Gary Shaw's company, an agreement under which it will take over most of his 20 or so fighter promotional contracts and see Shaw jointly run Roc Nation Sports' boxing division along with Itskowitch.
More than any of the Shaw fighters, Ward is the big prize. When he fights next has not been determined.
"We're going to sit down and talk about when he will specifically fight and the level of opponent he will fight," Itskowitch said. "He's been out of the ring for a while. We'll come up with names and come up with a date but we're excited to give him the opportunity to show he's one of the best in the world."
Since rolling through the Super Six World Boxing classic in dominant fashion (including lopsided wins against Mikkel Kessler, Arthur Abraham and Carl Froch) to unify two 168-pound world titles in the December 2011 final, Ward has boxed only twice.
Ward, of Oakland, California, delivered a tour de force performance in a 10th-round destruction of then-light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson, who dropped down to super middleweight to fight Ward, in September 2012. After a 14-month layoff, Ward, since stripped of one of his belts for inactivity, returned to win a one-sided decision against Edwin Rodriguez in November 2013.
Part of the reason for his layoff was a shoulder injury that led to surgery and forced a fight with former middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik to be canceled, but mainly it was problems with promoter Dan Goossen, who signed Ward after he won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics and promoted his entire professional career until his untimely death from liver cancer at age 64 on Sept. 29.
Goossen Promotions, now being run by Brown, Goossen's brother-in-law, and Craig Goossen, Dan's son, still had about two years remaining on its contract with Ward, but it was an untenable situation.
At least four times, using various arguments, Ward, who will turn 31 on Feb. 23, attempted to break his contract with Goossen Promotions. Ward lost an effort in Los Angeles Superior Court in August in which the judge dismissed his case saying he did not have "any basis upon which to invalidate the contract."
Another case was ongoing in which Ward accused Goossen Promotions of violating the federal Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act for failing to disclose all forms of income generated by his fights. Goossen Promotions denied the charge and countersued Ward for $10 million, claiming defamation.
Previously, the California State Athletic Commission twice ruled against Ward in separate arbitration hearings pertaining to efforts to terminate his promotional agreement.
http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/i...middleweight-champion-signs-roc-nation-sports
Tom Brown
?
#SOGGang
Updated: January 9, 2015, 12:42 PM ET
By Dan Rafael | ESPN.com
NEW YORK -- Super middleweight champion Andre Ward, who has fought only twice in the past three years -- mainly because of a protracted contact battle with Goossen Promotions -- is about to get a lot busier.
Music mogul Jay Z's Roc Nation Sports, in its biggest move yet since opening a boxing promotion division in August, signed Ward on Friday, shortly after Ward worked out an agreement to part ways with Goossen Promotions.
Details of how the split with Goossen Promotions came about after years of legal battling were not disclosed, but Tom Brown of Goossen Promotions clearly was not happy with the result.
"That chapter is closed. I've moved on," Brown told ESPN.com.
Roc Nation Sports' move comes only hours before it will promote its first fight card on Friday (Fox Sports 1/Fox Deportes, 10 p.m. ET) at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, which is headlined by welterweight prospect Dusty Hernandez-Harrison against Tommy Rainone. Ward will be ringside for the show.
"We have signed Andre Ward and it's something we're very excited about," David Itskowitch, chief operating officer of Roc Nation Sports' boxing division, told ESPN.com. "It's just the beginning for us but it's a game-changer. He's one of the best fighters in the world. Everything is coming together for us. On the same day we are having our first event, at Madison Square Garden, we are announcing our first really huge signing."
Ward (27-0, 14 KOs), widely regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world not named Floyd Mayweather Jr., will instantly become the face of Roc Nation Sports' boxing franchise, one day after the company completed a deal to buy promoter Gary Shaw's company, an agreement under which it will take over most of his 20 or so fighter promotional contracts and see Shaw jointly run Roc Nation Sports' boxing division along with Itskowitch.
More than any of the Shaw fighters, Ward is the big prize. When he fights next has not been determined.
"We're going to sit down and talk about when he will specifically fight and the level of opponent he will fight," Itskowitch said. "He's been out of the ring for a while. We'll come up with names and come up with a date but we're excited to give him the opportunity to show he's one of the best in the world."
Since rolling through the Super Six World Boxing classic in dominant fashion (including lopsided wins against Mikkel Kessler, Arthur Abraham and Carl Froch) to unify two 168-pound world titles in the December 2011 final, Ward has boxed only twice.
Ward, of Oakland, California, delivered a tour de force performance in a 10th-round destruction of then-light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson, who dropped down to super middleweight to fight Ward, in September 2012. After a 14-month layoff, Ward, since stripped of one of his belts for inactivity, returned to win a one-sided decision against Edwin Rodriguez in November 2013.
Part of the reason for his layoff was a shoulder injury that led to surgery and forced a fight with former middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik to be canceled, but mainly it was problems with promoter Dan Goossen, who signed Ward after he won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics and promoted his entire professional career until his untimely death from liver cancer at age 64 on Sept. 29.
Goossen Promotions, now being run by Brown, Goossen's brother-in-law, and Craig Goossen, Dan's son, still had about two years remaining on its contract with Ward, but it was an untenable situation.
At least four times, using various arguments, Ward, who will turn 31 on Feb. 23, attempted to break his contract with Goossen Promotions. Ward lost an effort in Los Angeles Superior Court in August in which the judge dismissed his case saying he did not have "any basis upon which to invalidate the contract."
Another case was ongoing in which Ward accused Goossen Promotions of violating the federal Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act for failing to disclose all forms of income generated by his fights. Goossen Promotions denied the charge and countersued Ward for $10 million, claiming defamation.
Previously, the California State Athletic Commission twice ruled against Ward in separate arbitration hearings pertaining to efforts to terminate his promotional agreement.
http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/i...middleweight-champion-signs-roc-nation-sports
Tom Brown
?#SOGGang
Andre Ward joins Roc Nation Sports
Updated: January 9, 2015, 12:42 PM ET
By Dan Rafael | ESPN.com
NEW YORK -- Super middleweight champion Andre Ward, who has fought only twice in the past three years -- mainly because of a protracted contact battle with Goossen Promotions -- is about to get a lot busier.
Music mogul Jay Z's Roc Nation Sports, in its biggest move yet since opening a boxing promotion division in August, signed Ward on Friday, shortly after Ward worked out an agreement to part ways with Goossen Promotions.
Details of how the split with Goossen Promotions came about after years of legal battling were not disclosed, but Tom Brown of Goossen Promotions clearly was not happy with the result.
"That chapter is closed. I've moved on," Brown told ESPN.com.
Roc Nation Sports' move comes only hours before it will promote its first fight card on Friday (Fox Sports 1/Fox Deportes, 10 p.m. ET) at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, which is headlined by welterweight prospect Dusty Hernandez-Harrison against Tommy Rainone. Ward will be ringside for the show.
"We have signed Andre Ward and it's something we're very excited about," David Itskowitch, chief operating officer of Roc Nation Sports' boxing division, told ESPN.com. "It's just the beginning for us but it's a game-changer. He's one of the best fighters in the world. Everything is coming together for us. On the same day we are having our first event, at Madison Square Garden, we are announcing our first really huge signing."
Ward (27-0, 14 KOs), widely regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world not named Floyd Mayweather Jr., will instantly become the face of Roc Nation Sports' boxing franchise, one day after the company completed a deal to buy promoter Gary Shaw's company, an agreement under which it will take over most of his 20 or so fighter promotional contracts and see Shaw jointly run Roc Nation Sports' boxing division along with Itskowitch.
More than any of the Shaw fighters, Ward is the big prize. When he fights next has not been determined.
"We're going to sit down and talk about when he will specifically fight and the level of opponent he will fight," Itskowitch said. "He's been out of the ring for a while. We'll come up with names and come up with a date but we're excited to give him the opportunity to show he's one of the best in the world."
Since rolling through the Super Six World Boxing classic in dominant fashion (including lopsided wins against Mikkel Kessler, Arthur Abraham and Carl Froch) to unify two 168-pound world titles in the December 2011 final, Ward has boxed only twice.
Ward, of Oakland, California, delivered a tour de force performance in a 10th-round destruction of then-light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson, who dropped down to super middleweight to fight Ward, in September 2012. After a 14-month layoff, Ward, since stripped of one of his belts for inactivity, returned to win a one-sided decision against Edwin Rodriguez in November 2013.
Part of the reason for his layoff was a shoulder injury that led to surgery and forced a fight with former middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik to be canceled, but mainly it was problems with promoter Dan Goossen, who signed Ward after he won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics and promoted his entire professional career until his untimely death from liver cancer at age 64 on Sept. 29.
Goossen Promotions, now being run by Brown, Goossen's brother-in-law, and Craig Goossen, Dan's son, still had about two years remaining on its contract with Ward, but it was an untenable situation.
At least four times, using various arguments, Ward, who will turn 31 on Feb. 23, attempted to break his contract with Goossen Promotions. Ward lost an effort in Los Angeles Superior Court in August in which the judge dismissed his case saying he did not have "any basis upon which to invalidate the contract."
Another case was ongoing in which Ward accused Goossen Promotions of violating the federal Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act for failing to disclose all forms of income generated by his fights. Goossen Promotions denied the charge and countersued Ward for $10 million, claiming defamation.
Previously, the California State Athletic Commission twice ruled against Ward in separate arbitration hearings pertaining to efforts to terminate his promotional agreement.
http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/i...middleweight-champion-signs-roc-nation-sports
Tom Brown
#SOGGang
Beat me to it anyway Son of Goosen under Lord Camel, what happens next? Is he gonna rep the Roc & fight in Bk now?
Beat me to it anyway Son of Goosen under Lord Camel, what happens next? Is he gonna rep the Roc & fight in Bk now?
See the light breh....
.....and join the #SOGGang at Roc Nation Sports
Jordan fukks with us, Hov fukks with us, we undefeated since 12 years old, we Olympic Gold Medalists, we cleaned out the Super Middleweight Division, we about to get our spot back and take the #1 P4P spot, what else is there to do?
#SOGGang
See the light breh....
.....and join the #SOGGang at Roc Nation Sports
Jordanfukks with us,Hovfukks with us, we undefeated since 12 years old, we Olympic Gold Medalists, we cleaned out the Super Middleweight Division, we about to get our spot back and take the #1 P4P spot, what else is there to do?
#SOGGang
I never watched a Ward fight
gonna do that after work. Can't vibe wit Camel( Nas won 
aha) & cheese eyes did Chamillitary foul.Let ya know if I'm all in
krackdagawd
Inspire.
WE BACK months of slander battles in the courtroom all this stress got our boy #SOG hairline in shambles but we back Through all of this hardship #SOGGang stuck together and now we are in the promise land.
THE
Roc Nation Reppin
Black Excellence in the flesh
The Olympic Gold Medal Winning
Super Six Tournament Winning
168lb Division Cleaning (unlike these pretty boys we beat the best in our division)
Generic EuroCac Destroying
Light Heavyweight Champion Defeating
2014 ESPY Fighter of the Year™ Nominee
#2 Pound for Pound fighter in the World
The Greatest Super Middleweight of all time
Ain't lost a fight since he lost his virginity.
Andre "Son of God" Ward :sog:
WATCH THE THRONE(p4p) WE BACK COCKSUCKERS
months of slander battles in the courtroom all this stress got our boy #SOG hairline in shambles but we back Through all of this hardship #SOGGang stuck together and now we are in the promise land. THE
Roc Nation Reppin
Black Excellence in the flesh
The Olympic Gold Medal Winning
Super Six Tournament Winning
168lb Division Cleaning (unlike these pretty boys we beat the best in our division)
Generic EuroCac Destroying
Light Heavyweight Champion Defeating
2014 ESPY Fighter of the Year™ Nominee
#2 Pound for Pound fighter in the World
The Greatest Super Middleweight of all time
Ain't lost a fight since he lost his virginity.
Andre "Son of God" Ward :sog:
WATCH THE THRONE(p4p) WE BACK COCKSUCKERS
krackdagawd
Inspire.
Worl Boss 1Don
One Don if anno me ah Tesha Miller
"In the wake of this morning's announcement that Andre Ward had signed a promotional agreement with Roc Nation, BoxingScene.com has been advised that WBA/WBO/Ring super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux will be ringside tonight for Jay Z's promotional company's debut show.
Rigondeaux will be accompanied by by his team which consists of Caribe Promotions President Boris Arencibia, Vice President Louis Fonseca along with his advisor Alex Bornote and team member Raymond Garbey."
looks like Rigondeaux is next
Rigondeaux will be accompanied by by his team which consists of Caribe Promotions President Boris Arencibia, Vice President Louis Fonseca along with his advisor Alex Bornote and team member Raymond Garbey."
looks like Rigondeaux is next
krackdagawd
Inspire.
a week and some change in and 2015 already better than that struggle year we just had.
cant have his number when most people thought degale won the fightDegale should get at Groves again. I think he knows groves got his number,, and if he loses again, his career is over
also groves looks soulless since the Froch KO loss, fought 2 bums since and struggled
while degale knocked out 2 credible guys who have never been KO'd before
krackdagawd
Inspire.
SOG and RiGOAT in the same stable
They gonna hop out the crowd at that Haymon Promotions event and proceed to hand out ass whoopings
