Andre Ward (L) won the WBC super middleweight belt in 2011 by beating Carl Froch (Getty)Super middleweight champion Andre Ward was lavished with praise on Monday when he essentially told the WBC to stick their gaudy green title belt where the sun doesn't shine.
But Ward's actions won't amount to much, because there are few boxers who are willing to take the same stance.
Despite the fact that boxing's major sanctioning bodies routinely cheat, manipulate the rankings, strip fighters of titles they won in the ring, coerce them into giving up their fight-worn equipment and almost daily break their own rules, boxers are desperate to have them.
Few boxers are willing to take a stand like Ward did and tell these morally and ethically bankrupt grounds to get lost. It's going to take fighters like Floyd Mayweather Jr., Wladimir Klitschko, Canelo Alvarez, Juan Manuel Marquez and other high-profile boxers to follow Ward's lead for his action to have any kind of an impact.
Rest assured, though, that's not going to happen in our lifetime.
Andre Ward wears his WBC belt (Getty)Ward won his WBC title by defeating Carl Froch in
