The undisputed cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk (16-0, 12 KOs) expressed his willingness to fight Andre Ward. One of the journalists put a specific question to Usyk about it, to which he answered with strictly “yes”.
Ward himself said he was not going to fight Usyk. The American completed his career in 2017, however, despite this, rumors about his return regularly appear in the press.