Comments Thread For: Demetrius Andrade-Liam Williams Middleweight Title Fight Re-Ordered By WBO

[Zaroku]

Nothing much has happened in this division since GGG Canelo. Need some action.

Captain Walrus
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In the city San Francisco walrus loung on piers

Since El Niño hit the bay.

They (warusses?)
Post up pier 39 not pier 41

Too much info I get it

[-DSG-]

I think it's going to be GGG-Munguia and Andrade-Williams with the winners facing off 2nd half of the year.

[Boxingfanatic75]

Andrade has a mandatory. If he steps up to fight Saunders, he'll be stripped of his Middleweight title. Once a mandatory is called, you fight or be stripped.

No he wouldn’t. They’d grant him a pass under a unification.

[Boxingfanatic75]

This was on the 4th of Dec 2020. The 10 days is up. If the WBO is calling for the mandatory, then it looks like Saunders and Andrade aren't getting it on.

But if they can work something out in time for them to fight, Andrade will have to drop that title if he moves up. They can't keep Williams hanging around.

Just caught this and if that’s the case you’re right. Now one has to wonder why back then the fight wasn’t taken.

[Combat Talk Radio]

No he wouldn’t. They’d grant him a pass under a unification.

You mean like Joshua, who keeps getting threatened if he doesn't fight Usyk?


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[-Kev-]

Andrade wants no part of Williams.
He would rather get beat for more money against Saunders. Fox went 12 with Andrade and Williams completly manhandled Fox by K.O. Way too risky doubt he takes the fight.

Please guys, don’t hype up Liam Williams as some great opponent who’s going to beat Andrade. Look, Andrade looks average vs subpar opponents, anyone who is more than a casual fan knows this. But let’s not start hyping up the subpar opponents because we have gotten used to Andrade’s mediocrity. Like someone slightly above journeyman level isn’t Andrade facing elite competition. Let’s call it like it is.

[petero]

Please guys, don’t hype up Liam Williams as some great opponent who’s going to beat Andrade. Look, Andrade looks average vs subpar opponents, anyone who is more than a casual fan knows this. But let’s not start hyping up the subpar opponents because we have gotten used to Andrade’s mediocrity. Like someone slightly above journeyman level isn’t Andrade facing elite competition. Let’s call it like it is.

I will call it like it is, I would put my money on Williams, 7 straight ko's
and trained by D. Engle he is improving all the time.

[-Kev-]

I will call it like it is, I would put my money on Williams, 7 straight ko's
and trained by D. Engle he is improving all the time.

Andrade is a mediocre fighter. Him going the distance with Alantez Fox and Liam Williams stopping Fox, matters about as much as Ricky Hatton stopping Jose Luis Castillo and Floyd going 24 tough rounds with the same opponent. It means nothing. Three mediocre/average fighters. Good for Williams for KO’ing an unknown fighter that Andrade could not KO. I’m not entirely sure if Andrade thought he was facing the second coming of RJJ when he fought Fox, because he was throwing one punch at a time for whatever reason. Instead of making quick work of him. Andrade went the distance with just about any worthy to semi worthy name he has faced and he has not faced much.

Vanes, Freddy Hernandez, Grady Brewer, Sulecki, Culcay. All mediocre/average fighters, and mediocre/average decision wins to go along with it. Vanes was a top fighter, i’ll give him that. But the rest are journeymen.

Don’t get me wrong, if Liam Williams beats him, I would not even bat an eye. That’s how mediocre Andrade is. But if Andrade beats Williams, all i’m saying is, it’s just another average fighter on his resume. I can’t see how this guy shows up vs journeymen, takes them the distance in an average performance, and he is supposed to be some type of boogeyman for the top fighters. In 2014, he literally pulled out of a fight, while being perfectly healthy and in his prime, against what would have been the best fighter he ever faced in Charlo. That and getting off the canvas to beat Vanes are the two highlights of his career at 33 years old.

[Boxingfanatic75]

You mean like Joshua, who keeps getting threatened if he doesn't fight Usyk?


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They threat and they threat however if they pulled that trigger on a unification they’d be relegated to a non existent boxing org that no one would respect or recognize any longer.

[Combat Talk Radio]

They threat and they threat however if they pulled that trigger on a unification they’d be relegated to a non existent boxing org that no one would respect or recognize any longer.

The point is, unifications DON'T trump mandatories if the org puts its own agenda first.