Comments Thread For: Andrade Wins Highlight Battle, But Loses Impressiveness War

[War Room]

Okay let me rephrase that, OG: you could have fit all of Andrade's fans into Jack Dempsey's Restaurant and had enough empty tables to break em down and set up a boxing ring.

Dude is an undefeated American world champion at the end of his prime and is doing Friday Night Fight numbers on DAZN off in obscurity. The fans are not interested.

Reasonably not his fault, he's going to press conferences trying to get these guys to fight. What more does he have to do? Not like Crawford refusing to do anything at all. Big offers were made to Charlo, GGG, Canelo, if they don't want to fight him how can he get on the big screen.

Some guys it's just hard to look against and I think Williams is one of those fighters. It's like that one guy Sam Soliman, nobody looks good beating him.

[Punisher33]

I hear what you're saying, and I don't disagree entirely with the narrative of your post. However, Andrade won convincingly against a tough fighter. I would give his performance a B. He showed good power, foot movement, and ring generalship etc... The only criticism I have is, he didn't close the show/leave an explanation point at the end of the fight. That will garner enough buzz to get a GGG or a Canelo to fight him. The most he can hope for is a Charlo or Hurd. Even that may not happen.

For the record. His post fight interview was great. Respectful, honest, and to the point. He can't make anyone fight him. The problem is, he's not a big name. Hes what Crawford was 3 or 4 years ago. Dominant, but little fan fare in comparison to the bigger names. Andrade is the perfect example of "High Risk, Low Reward". Maybe Eddie Hearn can make it happen, but is pride to high to a he won't take a significantly lower percent to fight a big name this year or next?

[PunchyPotorff]

Agreed Andrade is boring to watch... and hasn't had much of any meaningful competition in the ring. IMO, either GGG or Canelo would stop him easily.

[Caxcan]

I've never been impressed by Andrade even against the lower tier opponent he faces. He throws a lot of lunging and winging shots with his hands low and is often off balance and gets into sloppy exchanges. He'd get taken apart by a good counter puncher.

[JakeTheBoxer]

When a champ is seen as an easy target, usually, some top contender or the other champ fights him and takes his belts.

Obviously Andrade is not seen as an easy target. He is seen as high risk fight. Obviously Charlo and GGG are not too confident they beat him.