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Boxing great Andre Ward, three days away from his world title challenge of Light Heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev, said he recently met Serena Williams and even admitted of being “intimidated” by her larger than life aura.

â€œHonestly, I was intimidated by her,â€ a smiling Ward said. â€œShe has this â€“ something, this air, this presence. Donâ€™t get me wrong; she was very nice, very polite and I was really happy to get to meet her. Itâ€™s just, she has that thing; itâ€™s hard to describe. I wasnâ€™t feeling anything unusual right before I met her, but I looked up andâ€¦ wow.â€

The undefeated Ward who has not lost a boxing match since he was a teenager, is the former undisputed 168 pound and Olympic champion who will face the hard punching Russian at 175 pounds in a much anticipated super fight this weekend in Las Vegas (to be televised by HBO pay per view).

Ward will fight Kovalev in Las Vegas on Saturday

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