Comments Thread For: Derevyanchenko Manager: Andrade Pulled Out of Deal for 12/16

[kushking]

When was the last time one of the fighters we considered great fought 2x in such a short period of time. Once a fighter becomes great we're lucky if they fight every 6 months.

That's just it he's doing nothing to show hes great,& plenty of fighters would've taken that opportunity if they truly believed in themselves. Hes at a stage where .hes getting old & has nothing to show for his career,& window of opportunity is getting smaller. Fans like me are no longer buying his excuses & imo he's just completely average at jmw,@ mw he's probably below average imo. Just my 2 cents,agree to disagree.

[Dean_Razorback]

that would have been a great fight, andrade is making himself no favors

[Deletrious]

That's a great fight, hope it happens next year.

Boxing is a brutal sport, maybe Andrade still had aches and pain that he hoped he was going to be over by now. I'm not going to eat his lunch for that.

[Dean_Razorback]

You can't earn a lot of money fighting Derevyanchenko (I guess only some hardcore boxing fans know who he his) and you can easily get beaten by him. So why risk?
The same old story, unfortunately...

and andrade is a star? you can say that exact same thing about him, he isn't even a champion right now.

[sicko]

Sergiy Derevyanchenko is a threat at 160 that is being ignored but all he needs is his opportunity he is going to upset somebody and completely disrupt this Division once he is given his opportunity

As for Andrade who I'm a fan of as well, this is no surprise! While extremely gifted in the ring, his team around him outside of it is AWFUL. Starting to see a Pattern Here with Andrade:


He says all the right things, build up interest from fans and boxing media but for whatever reason have yet to deliver the big fight in which he has been offered multiple times and contracts was sent to him but it is always something with Andrade. I don't know if it is him exactly or his Father and Promoter who make these Awful Decisions that has done nothing but stalled his career over and over

[Butch.McRae]

This Andrade act is a familiar story. Surprised he still has fans.

[Banderivets]

Why he shook of the eurobum?

Would be a great fight, would go to decision, but a close fight, can't pick a winner. I guess Andrade would be the favorite but I can see Sergij just working him up and down hard, he would get inside and just work that body all night.

[yankees7448]

That's just it he's doing nothing to show hes great,& plenty of fighters would've taken that opportunity if they truly believed in themselves. Hes at a stage where .hes getting old & has nothing to show for his career,& window of opportunity is getting smaller. Fans like me are no longer buying his excuses & imo he's just completely average at jmw,@ mw he's probably below average imo. Just my 2 cents,agree to disagree.

There is a difference between buying his excuses and demanding he takes on a much tougher opponent within 2 months of his last fight. I know he's made a lot of excuses before and excuses are like ********s. But demanding he fight a tougher opponent roughly 2 months after he just fought and the training camp he went through for that fight is a little ridiculous. You're guys are holding him to a standard no other undefeated former champion (even if it was a paper belt) would be held to because you're frustrated with his past decisions.

[Clegg]

The people running are HBO are really doing a shitty job. Aside from this being possibly the worst year they've had for showing fights in the past decade (I don't recall every year but it sure seems like it) they also sign ****** deals with fighters.

Everyone knows the oldest trick in the boxing book is the 'yeah I'm fighting a bum this time, but next time I'm gonna fight a beast!' routine. Every cherry picker uses that line and most shit fights are sold to fans based upon it. Anyone who has been following the sport should be wise to it. Yet HBO pay money to show Cotto vs Kamagai, based upon the exact same 'next time I fight someone great though' BS and of course Cotto goes on to choose Ali as an opponent. Then they sign Andrade and yet again fall for the exact same routine 'yeah this Fox guy is a random unknown but for sure I'll fight someone good after that!' and what happens? The same thing that everyone saw coming except the cuntrags at HBO.

If you're gonna cut your boxing budget, only show individual fights so that you can pick and choose the good, competitive ones, or if you really insist on signing guys to multi-fight deals, make sure the first fight is at least a good one so you get one decent fight instead of just a stream of boring mismatches.

[rudy]

Andrade, Stevenson, Matthyse all need to fire there managers

Dont blame the managers these guy are dumb that is the problem