Andre Ward
Super Middleweight & Light Heavyweight Champion
Boxing · Enshrined Legend
Andre Ward
Undefeated across two weight classes — Ward unified the super middleweight and light heavyweight titles and was ranked the sport's best pound-for-pound fighter during his light heavyweight reign.
12th
All-time greatest fighter (BoxRec, 2022)
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Career losses
2 Divisions
Unified champion
The Backstory
Two Weight Classes, One Undefeated Record
Super middleweight unification
Held the lineal super middleweight title along with unified belts across the division between 2009 and 2015.
Light heavyweight unification
Moved up and unified the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and Ring light heavyweight titles between 2016 and 2017.
Pound-for-pound recognition
During his light heavyweight reign, Ring magazine and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB) both rated him the best active fighter in the sport, regardless of weight class.
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2009 → 2017
Career Timeline
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2009–2015
Super middleweight champion
Held the lineal title and unified belts across the super middleweight division.
A Champion in Two Divisions
Held the lineal title and unified the division's major belts from 2009 to 2015.
Lineal super middleweight champion — 2009–2015
Unified super middleweight belts — Multiple sanctioning bodies
Every award, on the record
Honors & Awards
Ring Magazine Pound-for-Pound #1
Named the world's best active boxer, regardless of weight class, during his light heavyweight title reign.
TBRB Pound-for-Pound #1
The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board also rated him the sport's top fighter during the same span.
BoxRec All-Time Top 12
Ranked the twelfth greatest fighter of all time, pound-for-pound, as of January 2022.
More To Know
Deeper Cuts on Andre Ward
Ward was born in San Francisco and started boxing at age nine, later being taken in as a ward by his longtime trainer Virgil Hunter after age twelve.
He compiled a 115-5 amateur record and won Olympic light heavyweight gold in Athens in 2004, the first American boxing gold in eight years.
He rose to stardom by winning the Super Six World Boxing Classic tournament, beating Mikkel Kessler, Allan Green, Arthur Abraham and Carl Froch along the way.
He retired undefeated in 2017 with a record of 32-0, and was later named Sports Illustrated's Fighter of the Decade for the 2010s.
The International Boxing Hall of Fame inducted him in 2021, his first year of eligibility.
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