![]() ![]() He hides behind his opinion that I’m boring and that I haven’t fought nobody but we all know those are excuses. “I did it because I know 100 percent he has strategically avoided me at 154 and 160. Later, Andrade told The Ring he crashed the news conference because he truly believes Alvarez has avoided him. “This is the time.”Ĭanelo started out respectful but he lost patience quickly with Andrade’s party crash move. ![]() “Man, at some point I f- need to say something,” Alvarez said. ![]() He’s a kid.”Īlvarez has not usually shown that side of his personality, but he did it because he is tired of being needled by Andrade and because he has grown more comfortable speaking in English publicly. I know that.”Īndrade answered, “Watch your mouth! When I see you it’s on!”Īlvarez mockingly retorted, “Ya, ya, ya, ya, I see you outside. “You are horrible fighter, horrible fighter, horrible fighter.”Īndrade shouted back, “Come beat me then you little bitch!”Īlvarez, smiling the whole time, responded almost as though he was singing, “Payday, payday - you want a payday. “You’re never gonna get to fight me,” he said. “Get the f- outta here because I’m gonna f- you up right now mother f-–,” Alvarez said, at which point Andrade and his father were being held back.Īs security began to escort them from the room, Alvarez dug the knife in more. Please, get the f- outta here,” Alvarez said, gesturing dismissively.ĭemetrius and Paul Andrade and Alvarez continued to exchange various f-bombs. Then Alvarez turned up the heat even more after Paul Andrade, Demetrius’ father and trainer, began shouting at Alvarez. You are a champion but you fight with nobody.” Then the good natured scene suddenly turned for the worse when Alvarez responded, in English, “Man, you fight with nobody. When can we make it happen? What you think? What you think?”Īndrade said he wasn’t intending to touch off a scene. When Alvarez (56-1-2, 38 KOs), 30, of Mexico, realized it was Andrade speaking, he said, “Oh, my God,” and put his head down on the table before flashing Andrade a thumbs up and thanking him.Īndrade continued, “Good job tonight. “So, when can we get something going on? Congratulations,” Andrade began. Olympian from Providence, Rhode Island, has won world titles at junior middleweight and middleweight but has yet been able to get the big fight he has so badly wanted, mainly because he is an immensely talented and slick boxer, who probably would give anybody a difficult fight, but is not a popular box office or television draw.Īndrade was in the back of the media room and after Alvarez had answered a few questions, suddenly Andrade, who was wearing a black t-shirt that read, “Canelo & Billy Joe are scared to fight Boo Boo,” piped up without having the microphone the moderator was passing around. Plant was not on hand for Saturday night’s fight, which drew a United States indoor boxing record of 73,126, but Andrade, also a Matchroom Boxing and DAZN fighter like Alvarez, sure was.Īndrade (30-0, 18 KOs), a 30-year-old southpaw and 2008 U.S. Saunders had surgery on the fractures on Sunday.Īlvarez retained The Ring and WBC/WBA titles and took Saunders’ WBO belt to move one step closer to his goal of becoming the first undisputed 168-pound champion, which he hopes to achieve by defeating IBF titlist Caleb Plant in September if they can make the fight. ARLINGTON, Texas – What began with WBO middleweight world titlist Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade respectfully calling out unified super middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez to fight him in the wee hours of Sunday morning quickly degenerated into a shouting match filled with cursing and threats, and ended with Andrade and his father/trainer Paul Andrade being escorted out by security.Īlvarez, flanked by promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing and trainer Eddy Reynoso, had come to the media room at AT&T Stadium for his post-fight news conference more than hour after he had had broken Billy Joe Saunders’ right orbital bone in multiple places and forced him to retire on the stool after the eighth round. ![]()
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