Andre Ward (born February 23, 1984) is an American professional boxer[2] and the current WBA (Super), WBC, and The Ring super middleweightchampion.

Currently, Ward is rated among the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world. He is rated #6, #7 and #5 by Yahoo! Sports,[3] Sports Illustrated,[4] and The Ring[5] respectively. Ward was a Gold Medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

His father Frank Ward inspired his son by regaling him with stories of hard fought battles and triumphant victories. Given the choice to fight or pursue other sports, the young Andre chose boxing and has poured his mind, body and soul into the sport & became a world champion.

Ward grew up in the East Bay in the Fairview neighborhood of Hayward, in California, where he attended Fairview Elementary, Bret Harte Junior High School and Hayward High School. At Hayward High he starred as a RB and Safety on the football team. When he turned 17 he became a close friend to boxerAndre Dirrell.

The SHOWTIME Super Six World Boxing Classic Final came to a dramatic conclusion on Saturday night at the historic Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City as unbeaten WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KOs) outclassed WBC champion Carl Froch (28-2, 20 KOs) over twelve one-sided rounds. The Olympic gold medalist Ward was faster, busier and landed cleaner, harder punches and did not allow Froch to get anything going. By round seven Ward was seemingly hitting Froch at will. A desperate Froch came on late, but the result was never in doubt as Ward prevailed by surprisingly close scores of 115-113, 115-113, 118-110.