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Him against Taylor and/or Prograis are good fights.
A Mikey-Haney fight could be something Eddie might want to build towards as well.
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Him against Taylor and/or Prograis are good fights.
A Mikey-Haney fight could be something Eddie might want to build towards as well.
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I thought Prograis is with PBC? I don't know if Taylor is a big enough name for Mikey Garcia to accept considering he will probably lose.
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He never signed with Al. He's managed by a management company owned by the director Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg, and Lou is his promoter. Normally most of Lou's fighters would fight on the PBC's platforms but him and Al had a falling out after the Wilder DAZN deal fell through, so he's basically just another promoter without a network now. Derev is the only guy I think he still work with Al on.
I'm not sure there are bigger names out there for Mikey to fight because Loma's never moving to 140, and Pac might be done after a second Floyd fight which looks like it's going to happen. He should have listened to his brother and his Dad who wanted him to push for a Pac fight but he "saw something" in Spence.
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Yeah happy for Mikey. He setting himself up for retirement soon enough especially with those investments he is in. Get ya money 
Word thats what im saying. Just handing them out like candy
Word thats what im saying. Just handing them out like candy
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Mikey is making a killing for being such an overrated average fighter
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Good businessman in and out the ring. I rather what he doing so I can get out that sport where folks dying then being the top fighter with the best skills fighting forever.
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Mikey doesn't care. He basically quit boxing when he was undefeated and in his prime then came back to collect checks.
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Like Jay Z said would you rather be underpaid or overrated?
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Can't wait for this
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I hope this fight is close and competitive and goes the 12 so I can see a 3rd. I tune in everytime there is a video of them. These dudes genuinely do not like each other
Just caught Jermell saying Tony "manipulated" the system
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Demetrius Andrade assembling Hall of Fame-worthy career despite ho-hum opposition
The end for Demetrius Andrade will probably be a lot rosier than the present. Boxing history tells us that.
In the 1980s, there was a book written called, “The Four Kings,” about three welterweights (Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns) and a middleweight (Marvelous Marvin Hagler) and their history together.
But it could just as easily have been “The Five Kings” and included welterweight Wilfred Benitez.
Benitez lost his welterweight title by 15th round TKO to Leonard. He dropped a majority decision to Hearns. He won a unanimous decision over Duran. Benitez was one of the great welterweights of an outstanding era of welterweights, but he was always like the fifth wheel, never included with his peers.
After he retired, Benitez made it to the International Boxing Hall of Fame, small consolation given the money he may have lost during his career by being overlooked for being too skillful of a defensive fighter.
Andrade, an Olympic teammate of WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder in Beijing in 2008, is 28-0 with 17 KOs and holds the WBO middleweight title. IBF champion Gennady Golovkin wants no part of him. WBA champion Canelo Alvarez declined to fight him, calling him boring.
He’s left to fight Luke Keeler in Miami on DAZN on Jan. 30, three nights before the Super Bowl. A win over Keeler, no matter how impressive, isn’t going to get Andrade the kind of purse, or the type of notoriety, that he’d get with Alvarez, Golovkin or even WBC champion Jermall Charlo.
But he’s what’s known in the industry as a slick southpaw, which for years has roughly translated into “I don’t want anything to do with that guy.”
This is a guy who could be bound for the International Boxing Hall of Fame when his fighting days are done who struggles to get anyone of substance to even consider fighting him.
History will, I suspect, look far more kindly upon him than he’s perceived now.
Andrade, though, makes no apologies for the way he fights or the style he uses. In his last fight, he dropped Maciej Sulecki in the first round and had him in serious jeopardy. But Sulecki managed to go the distance, though he barely laid a glove on Andrade in the 36 minutes of the bout.
“People who say they’re disappointed in what I did in that fight, well, you’re telling me you don’t like boxing then, because what I did was I gave you 12 skillful rounds of boxing,” Andrade said. “Look at what this guy did to Gabe Rosado. Look at the trouble he gave Daniel Jacobs. I was able to put him down in the first and win every minute of every round of that fight.”
Andrade responds to Canelo Alvarez's criticism
He attributed his lack of notoriety to “not having that machine behind us” in the early days of his career. He pointed out that Golovkin and Alvarez received big pushes for years and it’s paid off into making them household names.
But he was particularly annoyed that Alvarez said he was too boring to fight.
“For Canelo to call me boring, I mean, is he serious with that?” Andrade told Yahoo Sports. “I mean, I’m boring but Rocky Fielding is really exciting. Yeah, sure Canelo. Liam Smith was so exciting. Everybody couldn’t wait for that.”
It was a telephone conversation, but you could almost seem him rolling his eyes. And he wasn’t through, either.
He was going back to Alvarez’s early days to take digs at him for his opposition. In 2010, Alvarez fought Jose Miguel Cotto on a pay-per-view undercard. Jose Cotto is the older brother of former world champion Miguel Cotto.
“You’re telling me that Cotto’s brother was so exciting?” Andrade said. “And forget about exciting, he’s picking perfectly matched fights. Look at me: The guys I fight, they’re in their primes. Canelo is out there fighting guys on their way out. You think he would have fought [Sergey] Kovalev a couple of years ago when he was on top? No way. Now, he’s 36 or 37, whatever he is, and on his way out and now Canelo wants to fight him? OK then.”
Andrade hopes to put on a good performance against Keeler in January and then get a big fight, whether at middleweight or super middleweight, in his next outing.
Either way, he’s not going to apologize for winning going away most of the time.
“I don’t give two s---s about the opinion of somebody who has never stepped into the ring, who has never gone home with a black eye or a headache or pain in the ribs or just felt pain from just throwing punches or blocking and taking punches,” he said. “That doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is, what about the skillfulness and the angles and the jabs and the condition and the accuracy. What about that stuff, which is the stuff that really matters? Boxing is like any other sport, like football, basketball, whatever, where there’s a strategy you stick to in order to win.
In the 1980s, there was a book written called, “The Four Kings,” about three welterweights (Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns) and a middleweight (Marvelous Marvin Hagler) and their history together.
But it could just as easily have been “The Five Kings” and included welterweight Wilfred Benitez.
Benitez lost his welterweight title by 15th round TKO to Leonard. He dropped a majority decision to Hearns. He won a unanimous decision over Duran. Benitez was one of the great welterweights of an outstanding era of welterweights, but he was always like the fifth wheel, never included with his peers.
After he retired, Benitez made it to the International Boxing Hall of Fame, small consolation given the money he may have lost during his career by being overlooked for being too skillful of a defensive fighter.
Andrade, an Olympic teammate of WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder in Beijing in 2008, is 28-0 with 17 KOs and holds the WBO middleweight title. IBF champion Gennady Golovkin wants no part of him. WBA champion Canelo Alvarez declined to fight him, calling him boring.
He’s left to fight Luke Keeler in Miami on DAZN on Jan. 30, three nights before the Super Bowl. A win over Keeler, no matter how impressive, isn’t going to get Andrade the kind of purse, or the type of notoriety, that he’d get with Alvarez, Golovkin or even WBC champion Jermall Charlo.
But he’s what’s known in the industry as a slick southpaw, which for years has roughly translated into “I don’t want anything to do with that guy.”
This is a guy who could be bound for the International Boxing Hall of Fame when his fighting days are done who struggles to get anyone of substance to even consider fighting him.
History will, I suspect, look far more kindly upon him than he’s perceived now.
Andrade, though, makes no apologies for the way he fights or the style he uses. In his last fight, he dropped Maciej Sulecki in the first round and had him in serious jeopardy. But Sulecki managed to go the distance, though he barely laid a glove on Andrade in the 36 minutes of the bout.
“People who say they’re disappointed in what I did in that fight, well, you’re telling me you don’t like boxing then, because what I did was I gave you 12 skillful rounds of boxing,” Andrade said. “Look at what this guy did to Gabe Rosado. Look at the trouble he gave Daniel Jacobs. I was able to put him down in the first and win every minute of every round of that fight.”
Andrade responds to Canelo Alvarez's criticism
He attributed his lack of notoriety to “not having that machine behind us” in the early days of his career. He pointed out that Golovkin and Alvarez received big pushes for years and it’s paid off into making them household names.
But he was particularly annoyed that Alvarez said he was too boring to fight.
“For Canelo to call me boring, I mean, is he serious with that?” Andrade told Yahoo Sports. “I mean, I’m boring but Rocky Fielding is really exciting. Yeah, sure Canelo. Liam Smith was so exciting. Everybody couldn’t wait for that.”
It was a telephone conversation, but you could almost seem him rolling his eyes. And he wasn’t through, either.
He was going back to Alvarez’s early days to take digs at him for his opposition. In 2010, Alvarez fought Jose Miguel Cotto on a pay-per-view undercard. Jose Cotto is the older brother of former world champion Miguel Cotto.
“You’re telling me that Cotto’s brother was so exciting?” Andrade said. “And forget about exciting, he’s picking perfectly matched fights. Look at me: The guys I fight, they’re in their primes. Canelo is out there fighting guys on their way out. You think he would have fought [Sergey] Kovalev a couple of years ago when he was on top? No way. Now, he’s 36 or 37, whatever he is, and on his way out and now Canelo wants to fight him? OK then.”
Andrade hopes to put on a good performance against Keeler in January and then get a big fight, whether at middleweight or super middleweight, in his next outing.
Either way, he’s not going to apologize for winning going away most of the time.
“I don’t give two s---s about the opinion of somebody who has never stepped into the ring, who has never gone home with a black eye or a headache or pain in the ribs or just felt pain from just throwing punches or blocking and taking punches,” he said. “That doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is, what about the skillfulness and the angles and the jabs and the condition and the accuracy. What about that stuff, which is the stuff that really matters? Boxing is like any other sport, like football, basketball, whatever, where there’s a strategy you stick to in order to win.
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Wasn’t Andrade vs Jermall supposed to happen at some point?
GGG and Canelo don’t seem interested in Charlo either, and Jacobs just moved up, so why not get that fight made now
GGG and Canelo don’t seem interested in Charlo either, and Jacobs just moved up, so why not get that fight made now
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Dudes don’t wanna fight Jermall plain and simple...
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Seems like nobody wants to fight Andrade either, they’re both not getting big names, the two of them fighting is the most logical option. Winner got two belts.
Andrade definitely gains more with a win over Charlo than vice versa but I think it’s still worth it for both of them.
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Yeah dudes don't wanna fight Jermall and I cant fault them. Too much of a high risk low reward but it works everything in Jermall favor if they do fight him.
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Jermall charlo lost 116-112 to a 35 year old matt korobov then fought two jr middleweights after that lol. No one is ducking charlo. Andrade is on the other hand is clearly being avoided.
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Instead of fighting Jermall, he’s about to fight a cokehead that gets robbed by random thots
LmAo like I said FOH
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Lmao you get no argument from me there
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Charlo should go after Jeff Horn
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Vargas vs Mikey at 147 in frisco, tx at the star February 29
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Ex-titleholders Garcia, Vargas to fight Feb. 29
Former four-division world titleholder Mikey Garcia will return to the ring to face former two-division titlist Jessie Vargas.
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