Olympic champion Athens 2004 and former world champion in super middleweight and light heavyweight Andre Ward (32-0, 16 KOs) pondered whether professional boxing will ever have one governing body.
“I know that the fans like the model that the UFC uses. They want to see her in boxing. Personally, I have a lot of respect for everything Dana White and the UFC have done. But I think there is too much control. We need everyone to work together. We need a man with billions of dollars who will gather all the promoters and agree with them that from now on he will personally control all processes.
However, there are too many egos in this business—the egos of the promoters, the egos of the managers. I don’t think they will agree to have just one person manage the whole process. So I don’t think it will ever happen,” Boxing Scene quotes Ward as saying.
Let us remember that Ward hung up his gloves in 2017 after two victories in a row over Sergey Kovalev.
