Comments Thread For: Demetrius Andrade May Head To 168 For Bigger Fights, Says Hearn

[Hatesrats]

As much Sh!z as people talk about GGG...
Not ONE of those 160lbs pretenders (You know who) ever truly got in line to fight him.

Daddy Canelo took out the Boogeyman for you.

Don't care about any articles...
This crop of Middleweights will go down as some of the biggest pu$$*es of all-time.

[Boxingfanatic75]

nelo defo wont be back to 168 now that he hears boo boo is on the prowl

Lmfao! Canelo KOs poo poo within 5 then Tea bags him. Canelo would walk straight through poo poos feather fists and land devastating shots to his body all night long. The man is and has been truly insignificant his entire career. Name riding other boxer’s jock straps.

[Bronx2245]

You know, I'm starting to think it may not be management issues that are holding him back. When you've had this long of a career and had several promotions and you're still having problems getting a meaningful fight, something else might be up. Granted the BJS wasn't his fault so I'll give him that, but there's got to be more behind the scenes that we aren't getting.

Andrade and Haney, very similar! Who/What is the common denominator?

[Boxing fan1981]

Andrade and Crawford are going to realize one day they’ve wasted their entire career, with barely anything to show for.

It goes by in a flash, especially your prime, obviously.

Crawford at least had success at his previous weight, now? I guess the Porter fight, and that’s about it.

Andrade has literally not one decent name on his resume. At 168 he’s going to fight who? Canelo will go to 175 to build up even more legacy. Benavidez is with PBC. Plant, PBC. Saunders is going to retire after Canelo ***ed up his skull. Can’t think of anyone else besides Charlo, Jacobs.

[NC Uppercut]

He will go up to 168, have another obscure run and not secure any big fights.

If he goes to 68 he should be Nelo’s mando….right?

[-Kev-]

“The narrative around WBO middleweight champion Demetrius Andrade remains that the career-defining fight continues to escape him.

Rival promoters, as well as fighters Canelo Alvarez, Jermall Charlo, Gennadiy Golovkin and Jaime Munguia, have seemingly stiff-armed the undefeated American, calling into question his marketability.”

If journalists are going to insist and constantly repeat this “narrative” like a broken record, might as well mention what started it all. Demetrius ducked Lara and Charlo. He’s a duck. Plain and simple. Stop acting like he didn’t already blatantly duck the best names he could have fought.

Andrade pulls out of Charlo fight one month before fight night, because of a random offer from Roc Nation telling him to pull out in return for more money. Andrade obliged, leaving the 3 fight agreement with HBO and Star Boxing, and Roc Nation gave him nothing. Andrade sued Roc Nation then drops suit 2 year later after realizing his case was frivolous:

“Andrade, who also named longtime boxing attorney and former Roc Nation consultant Jeff Fried in the suit filed July 31, claims that Roc Nation Sports, which was interested in buying his promotional contract from co-promoters Joe DeGuardia's Star Boxing and Artie Pelullo's Banner Promotions, promised him the money if he refused to take part in a title defense arranged by DeGuardia and Pelullo. They had negotiated an agreement for Andrade to defend his 154-pound world title against Jermell Charlo on Dec. 13, on a Showtime-televised card at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. His purse would have been $550,000, and the fight would have been the first on a three-fight deal they negotiated with the network.”

"After Andrade performed his obligations under the agreement by rejecting the fight, Roc Nation reneged on its promise to pay Andrade the $550,000," the suit said.”

https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/13389347/demetrius-andrade-sues-roc-nation-sports

Andrade on fighting Lara: Demetrius Andrade: Lara a Last Resort, I’d Fight Jack Culcay

”I don’t know. If that’s the last resort, then yeah, I’m going to take the fight,” he said.

“He won’t engage or try and make the fight entertaining, especially if it’s coming into my favor,” Andrade explained. “He’s just going to survive, try to run, try to do the little pitty-pat counter punches. I’m not about that right now. I’m about sitting in there, doing what I need to do best, and letting the fans know that I’m willing to get in there with anybody and put on a show and make ends meet.”

Interestingly, while Andrade doesn’t want the WBA “super” titleholder in Lara, he would be OK with facing the secondary titleholder, Jack Culcay, who holds the sanctioning body’s “regular" belt. Andrade doesn’t know much about Culcay.”

https://www.boxingscene.com/amp/demetrius-andrade-lara-last-resort-id-fight-jack-culcay--106350

Andrade on fighting Lara and Charlo:

“Competition is at 54 but I would go to 160 but I’m not going to 160 to face the Charlos, I’m over that phase.” - Demetrius Andrade

“It takes two to see the man in action,” Andrade told BoxingScene.com. "The Lara vs Andrade thing is getting old. We are we supposed to wait until September to start negotiating when we both been out since March. We could have fought already, so what are we waiting for? Boy is 35 years old with a cane like 'hey son how you doing.” - Demetrius Andrade

https://www.boxingscene.com/amp/andrade-not-chasing-charlos-says-erislandy-lara-old-man--119190

Demetrius Andrade fcked himself over multiple times. While Canelo Alvarez accepted Erislandy Lara’s challenge, Andrade was too good and too exciting for Lara. That guys deserves to be ignored for the rest of his career. He fcked over Charlo, HBO, Star Boxing and Banner. Wanted no part of Lara either.

Drop that fcking ****** narrative that he’s ducked or avoided. That dude is dumb, greedy, and full of sh/t and is now paying for his ******ity.

[-Kev-]

Andrade and Crawford are going to realize one day they’ve wasted their entire career, with barely anything to show for.

It goes by in a flash, especially your prime, obviously.

Crawford at least had success at his previous weight, now? I guess the Porter fight, and that’s about it.

Andrade has literally not one decent name on his resume. At 168 he’s going to fight who? Canelo will go to 175 to build up even more legacy. Benavidez is with PBC. Plant, PBC. Saunders is going to retire after Canelo ***ed up his skull. Can’t think of anyone else besides Charlo, Jacobs.

Crawford’s resume is pretty bad, but to put him in the same sentence as Andrade is unfair. Crawford’s resume compared to Andrade’s, makes Crawford looks like Sugar Ray Robinson.

But that is just how terrible Andrade’s resume is, and how badly he fcked his career by ducking good fighters from 2014 to 2017. Andrade’s resume is another level of “bad”. It’s really sad to see Andrade being a title holder. 100% Andrade is the most undeserved “champion” in boxing right now. There isn’t another champion with a worse resume.

[Nightfall]

Now we will get Andrade vs Benavidez. Both want that fight

[-Kev-]

Sad. Dude has the worst managed career of any champion I can remember and has yet to fight any other champs. I remember when Hearn signed him, it gave him a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, we would finally see him in a significant fight. what a joke that was

Andrade fcked over everyone who gave him a chance. HBO gave him a 3 fight deal, starting with a fight vs Charlo in 2014. Andrade signed. His promoter, Star Boxing, got him that deal.

He then was approached by Roc Nation to get out of the deal, pull out of the Charlo fight, and that they will buyout his contract. He did just that, then got nothing. He sued Roc Nation over nothing, his own ******ity. He dropped the suit, he had nothing. Just whispers in ears on what to do from Roc Nation. He say she say don’t fly in court. Especially coming from someone who signed an agreement then renege on it. No one’s going to see you as the good guy.

That’s what happens when you do bad business. No one’s going to trust you. Andrade did bad business there. Fcked over HBO, Star Boxing, and Charlo. One month prior to the fight.

No one trusts this guy. No one sees him as trustworthy. He messed his whole career up for nothing.

[AKAcronym]

Andrade and Haney, very similar! Who/What is the common denominator?

You're probably wanting me to say Hearn, but Andrade has had problems before him so I'm inclined to think Andrade miiight be an issue too.