Why Is Demetrius Andrade Not Popular?

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I did want to respond to this specifically tho. I've had conversations about this outside of here. I remember a dude telling me he fights reckless. This was yearsss ago when he was at 154! He's ALWAYS taken chances in fights. That's why I don't really like when ppl compare him to Lara. Andrade's whole style is a risk.

If you remember when he fought Kautondokwa & had the double KD that wasn't called. Paulie said that takes guts to punch inbetween someone else punching. He's always done stuff like this tho. I see fighters with lesser KO% getting called power punchers, while Andrade just gets called "a boxer." & I be feeling like "wow it must only be 12 ppl who agree with me or something." Them other guys, it be all they have to offer or all they go for is the KO. Andrade does so many different things in the ring man.

There was people who didn't believe Floyd was who he was until he did exactly what he did to everybody else - to Pacquiao. & you have the ppl who still will never give him credit. But until they see Andrade literally have a fight go almost identical to what he does now they won't give him credit.

But to the point, he always took risks the opponent just can't capitalize. & he's not a good finisher. Kautondokwa in the 4th, Sulecki in the 1st, & Keeler in the 1st or 2nd. If he woulda got them outta there in them rounds he hurt them, he'd probably have 50k more followers or something right now lol. Knockouts create more believers than 12 round decisions.

most of the time floyd lands the cleaner harder punches but in the pac fight that was pac so i dont really understand what you mean he did the same thing to pac. pac did to floyd what floyd usually does to his opponents. make them hesitate and then pick them off with the cleaner shots. the scoring in that fight was nonsense. you can look at a round like round 7 where floyd lands 1 decent jab and pac lands about 6 hard shots and they score it for floyd. not much happened i guess floyd won that round...cept he didnt. this was a faded more tactical pac as well so im not even sure why you want credit for "beating" that version of pac. he waited until pac was much more tactical and then thought he could do what he always does...cept it didnt work(in reality) even his dad said he was losing after 10 rounds. credit is only given where credit is due and he simply did very little in that fight. lets not pretend that was something special. his worst performance by far even if you somehow thought he won

[_Rexy_]

He’s boring and his best opponent was Vanes like 8 years ago.

[MPDKSAB]

most of the time floyd lands the cleaner harder punches but in the pac fight that was pac so i dont really understand what you mean he did the same thing to pac. pac did to floyd what floyd usually does to his opponents. make them hesitate and then pick them off with the cleaner shots. the scoring in that fight was nonsense. you can look at a round like round 7 where floyd lands 1 decent jab and pac lands about 6 hard shots and they score it for floyd. not much happened i guess floyd won that round...cept he didnt. this was a faded more tactical pac as well so im not even sure why you want credit for "beating" that version of pac. he waited until pac was much more tactical and then thought he could do what he always does...cept it didnt work(in reality) even his dad said he was losing after 10 rounds. credit is only given where credit is due and he simply did very little in that fight. lets not pretend that was something special. his worst performance by far even if you somehow thought he won

Smh, skimmed through your post. I was actually gonna give a legit response until I read, "worst performance & somehow thought he won." Just stop it man.

[champion4ever]

He doesn't fight enough.
He's always with the wrong promoters/company.

He has never fought a good opponent.

His style ain't fan friendly

Bingo! The reason why he is not more popular is because his style is non exciting and he is too afraid of taking risks inside of the ring for fear of getting hurt.

You have to bring ass in order to get ass. Also, his cautious and safety first style is just a turn off for many boxing fans and other fighters as well and also, his belief that he is worth more than what he is actually worth prevents him from fighting the best fighters.

Which is why none of them wants to fight him.

[hhh1200]

Im a big fan of Demetrius andrade not just of his boxing he seems like a funny guy, he can talk, he got style, hes good looking (no ****) and hes got charisma. Why is this guy not popular? Hes basically a high functioning mayweather in terms of trash talking and fighting style he even tries to knockout his opponents recently risking his defence and chin etc. Why does noone talk about this guy? Hes such a great fighter. I think he beats canelo charlo and ggg and ive always thought this. Its clear hes being ducked and frozen out

A lot of bad decision early in his career but the money is there to fight him now, so it's straight up ducking like the welterweights with Crawford. Based on eye test, his style and length, he does a demo job on Canelo (dropped belts not to fight him for undiputed on DAZN), Charlo (only a punchers chance iike Wilder), Saunders (king of steriod spray) and Smith (he washes smith like he did brian rose). It just how this generation of boxing. Andrade should be top 10 p4p.

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Smh, skimmed through your post. I was actually gonna give a legit response until I read, "worst performance & somehow thought he won." Just stop it man.

umm ok thats what happened. pac landed the far better punches. we can break it down if you'd like but no one ever takes that challenge they do what you just did, say stop it man or you are crazy! yet when you watch the film of the fight...the punches just arnet there for floyd. they just are not there.

and it was his worst performance. thats just my opinion but you might have difference expectations. he didnt look good in the first castillo fight either but there wasnt such a big gulf in quality punches in that one as the pac fight. and he started off well in that one and faded where the pac fight he never really got much going throughout so yes i would say its worst performance and thats pretty impressive if losing 7-5 to pac is your worst performance.

yes if you somehow thought he snuck a close win over pac i wouldnt agree but it still wasnt impressive in any way. it was a run out the clock type of decision where people gave him the fight just for making it slow and methodical but not focusing on the quality of punches being landed. not impressive to win in that fashion.

so please tell me how he did to pac what he always does cause it seems like the exact opposite. his strategy is usually to slow down the fight, make his opponent hesitate, then capitalize. now i will give you that he slowed down the fight, that he made pac hesitant, but that thid part where he capitalizes...that ireally is the the most imporatnt part because thats the part where he is supposed to land clean flush shots, that part really didnt happen much. at times yes but more often than not no. more often than not it was pac rocking his head around while he could only muster some very weak jabs.

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A lot of bad decision early in his career but the money is there to fight him now, so it's straight up ducking like the welterweights with Crawford. Based on eye test, his style and length, he does a demo job on Canelo (dropped belts not to fight him for undiputed on DAZN), Charlo (only a punchers chance iike Wilder), Saunders (king of steriod spray) and Smith (he washes smith like he did brian rose). It just how this generation of boxing. Andrade should be top 10 p4p.

he's fought pretty weak opposition so can we really use the eye test? he usually looks good but not always. you could even say you would expect him to be more dominant against that level

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I've always thought he was the goods but his career choices are infuriating. He's never lived up to his potential so it's hard to rank him or even follow him as a fan when his opponents are abisimal.

[Mammoth]

I think Sulecki would beat Vanes, even the best version of Vanes. Liam Williams is under rated. Current Williams beats any version of Vanes.

I know I'm in the minority on that but I think Sulecki and Williams wins would be a part of a good Middleweight title run.

[Real King Kong]

I mean mayweather as in 'defensive black slick kinda fighter'

and korobov does fight like andrade but with no head movement or angles

Because they’re both southpaws? They’re not really similar at all.