Comments Thread For: Andrade Rips Canelo: I'm Boring? I Guess Fielding Was Exciting!

[Mr. Philadel]

Boo Boo should be talking to Nelo like this and Nelo should be planning to fight him!! Make it happen!! Heavy is the head that wears the crown and Nelo is the king right now so he has to expect that the Lions and Gorillas are gonna come to eat his food and take his head off!! It’s not easy being king!!

[NachoMan]

Andrade has skills Canelo has never seen and his team knows it. Ask ANYONE that’s actually been in the ring with him. He literally makes every top fighter give up and retreat. The difference is Canelo won’t back off and he will get hit like he’s never been hit. Andrade beats him easily and they know it. Canelo will never get in the ring with Andrade ! Remember what Canelo said at the beginning of the year. His number one goal was to unify before the end of the year. Andrade was right there and agreed to fight Canelo on Sept 14th and Canelo refused. Even after being offered well over $30M for the fight they turned it down and eventually he was given the gift of the WBC franchise and STILL had the IBF and refused to fight him after telling everyone that he wanted it more than anything. But not enough to step in the ring with Andrade after Andrade completely shutout Sulecki after Canelo saw Jacobs struggle with Sulecki he passed. And THAT is a fact

Andrade makes all the top fighters give up and retreat? Good God! Which top fighter are you talking about? The only reason Canelo hasn't fought Andrade is because Andrade is a complete nobody. Have Andrade and BJS fight. The winner of that can make a case to get that Canelo money.

[chepboxingking]

First of all, it was his highest purse at the time. Secondly, my beef is not ONLY that he didn't fight Jermell. He never fought Jermall, Angulo, Kirkland, Trout, nor Lara either! Now he's under new management, but somehow he can't get Canelo, Jacobs, Saunders, nor GGG??? Fool me once, shame on him! Fool me twice...

Your logic is flawed. Every fight has a reward purse associated with it, regardless of what your career high payday is.

Like a said in my last post, he had an awful management team before matchroom, so I'm not holding anything against him. After signing to matchroom he's constantly campaigning for all big fights! That's obvious. Can't force GGG, canelo or anyone else in the ring tho. Let's not forget he was scheduled to fight Sanders before he popped for being dirty

[emceetns]

November 17, 2014:

Andrade unhappy with his purse

Junior middleweight world titleholder Demetrius Andrade, unhappy with his purse and by a lack of communication with his promoters, has dropped out of a defense scheduled against Jermell Charlo on Dec. 13 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Although Charlo promoter Golden Boy Promotions and Showtime, which was going to televise the bout as the opener on a tripleheader, announced the fight on Oct. 31, Andrade-Charlo was never finalized and now it's off.

"It is unfortunate as it was a good move for Demetrius and his career but we are trying to reschedule it for another date and will hopefully have some more news next week after I get back in Macau and get together with him," Star Boxing's Joe DeGuardia, who co-promotes Andrade with Artie Pelullo's Banner Promotions, told ESPN.com...

"They make fights without talking to us," he said of DeGuardia and Pelullo. "They said they had a deal to for us to fight Charlo. We said, 'Really?' We are fine fighting Charlo but then we started talking about money and it wasn't worth the money. We held off as long as we could hold off before it was a wrap. It's like Arite and Joe are both my boys but I get mad because we didn't get to discuss the opponent or anything. They gave us Charlo. We were like, OK, but then we had to talk about the money. Give us a choice. How much for this guy? How much for this guy? How much for that guy?

"They never discussed it with us. They gave us one opponent and didn't want to pay us."

Andrade was offered $250,000, which was eventually increased to $300,000, which would have been a career-high.

https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/11893964/demetrius-andrade-drops-scheduled-defense-jermell-charlo

If you want to give him a pass, cool, but I don't. If it was just the Charlos, I could understand, but no Kirkland, no Angulo, no Trout, no Lara, and no Charlos? UNACCEPTABLE!

This is a fair critique as Andrade would have certainly raised his profile with a win over Jermell Charlo. As for right now, I would like to see him face Sergiy Derevyanchenko because Sergiy just went life and death with GGG and maybe believe that he should have gotten the victory (myself included). Also, both just fought on DAZN so that's not an issue either.

[emceetns]

Your logic is flawed. Every fight has a reward purse associated with it, regardless of what your career high payday is.

Like a said in my last post, he had an awful management team before matchroom, so I'm not holding anything against him. After signing to matchroom he's constantly campaigning for all big fights! That's obvious. Can't force GGG, canelo or anyone else in the ring tho. Let's not forget he was scheduled to fight Sanders before he popped for being dirty

Another fair point. A win over Billy Joe Saunders would have raised his profile while eliminating one of Canelo's potential opponents.

[Bronx2245]

Your logic is flawed. Every fight has a reward purse associated with it, regardless of what your career high payday is.

Like a said in my last post, he had an awful management team before matchroom, so I'm not holding anything against him. After signing to matchroom he's constantly campaigning for all big fights! That's obvious. Can't force GGG, canelo or anyone else in the ring tho. Let's not forget he was scheduled to fight Sanders before he popped for being dirty

It's cool to say, "I'm worth more than X," when you have the ability to show how many PPVs you've sold, or how many arenas you've sold out, but when you haven't done "Jack" you need to take the bag and punish your opponent! Had he beaten any of those people I named, he might just be in a better situation! Now he with Eddie, and he still can't get fights! Maybe it's him?

[Bronx2245]

This is a fair critique as Andrade would have certainly raised his profile with a win over Jermell Charlo. As for right now, I would like to see him face Sergiy Derevyanchenko because Sergiy just went life and death with GGG and maybe believe that he should have gotten the victory (myself included). Also, both just fought on DAZN so that's not an issue either.

Dervy has a choice to make! Jermall or Andrade! One is with PBC, just like him (and he attended his fight too) and the other is with MatchRoom. Let's see what happens!

[chepboxingking]

It's cool to say, "I'm worth more than X," when you have the ability to show how many PPVs you've sold, or how many arenas you've sold out, but when you haven't done "Jack" you need to take the bag and punish your opponent! Had he beaten any of those people I named, he might just be in a better situation! Now he with Eddie, and he still can't get fights! Maybe it's him?

So applying your logic, all opponents that faced Floyd, most of whom never sold out arenas or fought on ppv, should not have negotiated for the career high paydays, but instead should've "grabbed the bag" on the first offer made?

We can't hold fighters to different standards.

[AKAcronym]

Eddie Hearn told me that they have made an offer for Jermall Charlo to face Demetrius Andrade in 2020. One fight deal, if he wants, no long-term commitment #boxing

— Steve Kim (@StevESPNKim) December 18, 2019

Let's see how this plays out.

[Bronx2245]

So applying your logic, all opponents that faced Floyd, most of whom never sold out arenas or fought on ppv, should not have negotiated for the career high paydays, but instead should've "grabbed the bag" on the first offer made?

We can't hold fighters to different standards.

They didn't have to negotiate for career high paydays, because Floyd's first offer was a career high payday! Floyd didn't "negotiate" with ODLH! He took the weight, the ref, the date, the venue, and the purse, that ODLH demanded! After he won, then he called all the shots! Manny played hardball, because he's Manny!

Andrade's career is trash! He can blame past promoters, current promoters, etc., but it still doesn't change the fact that his career is trash!