“The only way I can say I’m the best is by fighting the best,” said former two-division champion Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade after winning his super middleweight debut against Demond Nicholson. “I felt good, I can definitely tell the difference at the new weight. But the speed and combinations and using my IQ was the plan today and that’s what we did. The weight was different.
“We’re going to look to see who’s available at 168 pounds. I’m just going to get stronger, sharper and faster.
“Everyone knows that Demond Nicholson is a dog. That’s why we took this fight. He took this fight because he knew I was coming up and he definitely has the animal in him. He showed it today.”
Everyone BooBoo is calling out would make short work of Desmond. Great amature but he’ll get found out when he finally fights a good fighter, whenever that may be.
And what good fighters are you speaking of? He’s made several attempts to fight Canelo, Charlo, Saunders and GGG all to no avail.
But he gets criticized because they refused.
Canelo said it best. “You are a horrible fighter”
translation
“You are a too good a fighter for me or GGG to risk our special priveledges”
It has got to the point where I don’t believe anything coming from Andrade.
I think he probably ends up fighting like a Dirrell next (either one) or Caleb Truax. I don’t think those top guys are going to fight him; they have no reason to. And he’s 35 in a few weeks.
I’m tired of boxers talking. Take on Caleb Plant or Benevidez. Those guys will 100% say yes. He needs to forget about Canelo, he’s having a hard time with Bivol.
Respectable comments by Andrade post-fight. I hope he stays committed to his craft, hones it, and gets better for the challenges ahead. He seems to know what he has to do, to elevate himself. Best of luck to him going forward. Good win for him.
You mean after all these years you haven’t peaked yet? You’ll be forty soon and still be yackin about your overrated self. What a tool.
Andrade must realize Canelo will never fight him, so he has to erase it out of his mind (forever).
Without solid support from fans, media/market sources and boxing authorities, Andrade will have to STAY ACTIVE and keep winning decisively; and maybe (just maybe) a few highly ranked fighters (forced or unforced) will test his skills.
Without more activity and more decisive victories from Andrade, the boxing public will continue to snore about him. Andrade (and his ego) must realize there is no easy road for a title shot at 168. At 168, I hope to see Andrade’s skills get tested against higher ranked fighters.
Unfortunately, it appears Andrade will remain in the dark at 168 (just like at 160), under “woulda, coulda, shoulda status.”
I like Andrade, but let’s see it. Get in there with someone legit. It’s really hard to tell how much skill Andrade has at this point, and he’s well past the point of working to build his resume by fighting fringe contenders. Making good fights really shouldn’t be this difficult.
Agree with that assessment, you couldn’t get a guy out of there that was ready to go after the first round. Lot of clean shots were landed, guess power is lacking at super middleweight
He does a lot of talking but not a lot of fighting.
Andrade passed on fighting Alimkahnuly at 160 but moved up in weight.. guess the risk reward wasn’t there for him… yet he and others complain that he gets ducked by fighters doing the same thing. Most boxing fans are not purists enough to stomach his fights.
All he had to do was fight Parker and then commanded a fight with Canelo, I was on his side for awhile but look straight through him now. He prices himself out of the big fights. Now he is a undercard bum.
Dirrell in 2!
You make a pretty good point Roy. John Ryder ended up fighting Parker and beating him and he’s probably Canelo’s next fight. Andrade had two opportunities to fight Parker last year and would not have had any problem with him at all as it turned out.
A trash talking undeserving bum. He hasn’t earned anything because he hasn’t fought anyone. Fighting easy opponents like Nicholson doesn’t help his cause to get a fight against someone like Canelo. It’s easy to sit back and run your mouth like a bitch, but it takes a real man to step up and fight tougher opponents to earn your spot. He shouldn’t wish so much to get a big fight because at this stage going against weak fighters he’s going to get shocked real quick in a tough fight and get knocked da fuck out.
HE NEEDS TO MOVE ON AND GET SOMEBODY LOWER THAN CANELO… I THINK HE WASTING HIS TIME TRYING TO GET CANELO… AND SHOULD FIGHT MORE OFTEN TOO… YOU WANNA BE THE MAN WHO FOUGHT THE MAN THEN START IN THE MIDDLE AND WORK YOUR WAY UP… FIGHT A LOT OF TIMES AND WIN… MAKE A BIGGER NAME FOR YOURSELF… WIN A FIGHT TAKE A WEEK OFF AND A FIGHT EVERY 3 MONTHS…. GET OFF YOUR ASS AND STOP COMPLAINING… BUNCH OF PRIMA DONAS WE GOT TODAY…. YOU CAN MAKE PEOPLE HAVE TO FIGHT YOU INSTEAD OF BEGGING… THE PUBLIC WILL DEMAND IF YOU FIGHT A LOT… THIS SOCIAL MEDIA BULLSHIT EXCHANGING WORDS MEANS NOTHING… FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT LOTS DON’T WORRY ONCE YOU START DOING THAT THEY’LL BE GUNNING FOR YOU…. MAKE HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF…
Andrade is a waste of a career! Not impressed with any of his fights because he has been champion twice but has never beaten a champion. Tank on the other hand has fought and beaten many champions impressively, and that is the difference on how you get the big fights and fill the seats!