Andrade Pounds Tsypko For Twelve, Lands Bute Shot
By Mark Vester
On the undercard to Timothy Bradley-Kendall Holt at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Librado Andrade (28-2, 21KOs) won a twelve round unanimous decision over Vitali Tsypko (22-3, 12KOs) in an IBF super middleweight eliminator. The scores were 117-109, 117-109 and 120-106.
Both appeared to be a bit cautious in the first. Andrade began to press the action in the final minute. At the start of the second, Anrade dropped Tsypko with a hard right. He beat the count and Anrade began to punish him. Andrade continued to stalk him in the next few rounds, taking anything that Tsypko landed. He buckled the legs of Tsypko often, pushing him back with hard punches.
In the sixth, Tsypko was hurt bad. He managed to hang on and survive as Andrade continued to pound him. In the seventh a combination send Tsypko down again in the first minute. He took a heavy amount of punishment to escape from being knocked out in the next two minutes. Tsypko continued to take punishment for the next few rounds, but actually mounted a minor comeback in the eleventh when a cut opened up above Andrade's left eye.
In the final round, the two of them stood in the middle of the ring and exchanged some massive power punches. Andrade had Tsypko in all sorts of trouble. Somehow the Ukranian fighter stayed on his feet and battled back with his own power combinations to the bell. The entire crowd stood on their feet to applaud both fighters.
Andrade is now in position for a rematch with IBF champion Lucian Bute. Last October Bute outboxed Andrade for eleven rounds. In the final round, Bute was badly hurt and went down in the final seconds. There was a lot of controversy over whether or not the ref took too long to give Bute a count. Bute went on to win a decision.
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