Andre Ward: Daily Routine

Andre Ward woke up at 5am, trained twice a day, and drank raw liver shakes—because staying undefeated wasn’t luck.

A perfect career in boxing is a rare thing. There are few other sports where you witness the extreme highs and lows as boxing — one minute you’re on top of the world with a world championship belt wrapped around your waist; the next minute you’re picking yourself up from the canvas, asking the referee what happened. Very few fighters know when the right time to go is.

Like retired UFC champion Georges St-Pierre said, “I see a lot of fighters get damaged, and I don’t want to be one of these guys. The fighter is always the last to know when it’s time to stop, but I wouldn’t have a problem right now to pull the plug and live my life healthy and happy.”

Andre Ward is one of those rare cases. When the former Super Middleweight and Light Heavyweight champion retired on September 21, 2017, he capped off a career which includes an Olympic gold medal, perfect 32-0 professional record and two legacy-defining wins against Sergey Kovalev. Not to mention he was leaving the sport with all his senses and finances intact; sadly not a very common occurrence in the boxing world.