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Whatever has happened in the able to derail the acceleration of Demetrius Andrade's career, the backstab inferior middleweight apple advocate has put it in the past.
["993.28"]HBO premieres doc on New York's class divide - NON FICTION FILM | class divide hboAndrade says the canicule of the abiding layoffs, bush fights and petty argument with his co-promoters, Joe DeGuardia of Ablaze Battle and Artie Pelullo of Banner Promotions, are over. It's time for a new beginning, time to let American battle admirers see his aptitude already afresh and, added significantly, time to affect them. It's time to get them on the appearance and accept them calling to see him face big names in the star-studded middleweight division.
"Now the brawl is in my court," Andrade said. "All eyes are absolutely on me for this action appropriate here."
Andrade, who holds a accessory 154-pound apple title, is affective up to the 160-pound middleweight analysis for the aboriginal action of a new accord with HBO. He will face Alantez Fox (23-0-1, 11 KOs), 25, of Forestville, Maryland, in a appointed 12-round bender on Saturday night (HBO, 10:05 p.m. ET/PT) at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York.
In the capital event, inferior failing apple advocate Jezreel Corrales (22-1, 8 KOs), 26, of Panama, will accomplish his third aegis aback he meets adolescent southpaw Alberto Machado (18-0, 15 KOs), 27, of Puerto Rico. The "Boxing Afterwards Dark" advertisement will additionally accommodate same-day taped advantage of the bantamweight apple appellation affinity action amid Ryan Burnett (17-0, 9 KOs), 25, of Northern Ireland, and Zhanat Zhakiyanov (27-1, 18 KOs), 33, of Kazakhstan, both of whom are authoritative their aboriginal defenses. They will accommodated at SSE Arena in Belfast, Burnett's hometown.
Andrade's achievement will go a connected way adjoin allowance him move to a approaching action with one of the top middleweights, area the division's best are accumbent with HBO, including unified best Gennady Golovkin, superstar Canelo Alvarez, above titlist David Lemieux and above titlist Daniel Jacobs, who active a arrangement with the arrangement aftermost month.
"It's a abundant action to be aback area I charge to be, aback in prime time and aback on HBO, which is acknowledging me and abetment me," Andrade said. "My action akin is activity to be aback up and running. No added layoffs. I'm aflame to appear out, and I put on a appearance adjoin Fox. Not a lot of bodies appetite to footfall up and action me, so acknowledgment to Fox for that. I acknowledge that. He's activity to advice accomplish me a superstar, so acknowledge you, Alantez Fox."
["1862.4"]Special Screening: HBO presents 'Class Divide' | SCAD | aTVfest 2018 | class divide hboIt won't appear appropriate away, but Andrade about believes he will get his adventitious for a above fight.
"I acknowledge HBO for the befalling so I can become the abutting big affair and get in the arena with Triple G and Canelo. It alone makes sense," Andrade said. "Who abroad is there to action out there that's activity to accompany in the acceptance but me, an Olympian, an best backstab apple champion?"
To many, Andrade (24-0, 16 KOs), a 29-year-old southpaw from Providence, Rhode Island, could accept -- and should accept -- been a ablaze years ago. He was an able amateur, a 2007 apple abecedarian best and a 2008 U.S. Olympian. He has pound-for-pound akin skills, a big personality and the adeptness to get off a acceptable one-liner, such as the time afterward his 12th-round abeyance of Willie Nelson in June 2016, aback he told the media at the postfight columnist appointment to accompany him any adversary whose name began with a C -- Canelo Alvarez, Miguel Cotto or the Charlo twins, Jermell and Jermall.
Andrade's career had confused forth smoothly. He was developed on ESPN2's old "Friday Night Fights" alternation and again fabricated the jump to HBO, acceptable a abandoned appellation in backward 2013, again attractive amazing in a seventh-round knockout of Brian Rose in June 2014. However, again came the argument with his promoters and a 16-month layoff, during which time he was bare of his apple title. He additionally angry bottomward a multifight arrangement with Showtime, which would accept kicked off with a December 2014 action adjoin Jermell Charlo.
Andrade claims that Roc Nation Sports was absorbed in affairs his promotional arrangement from DeGuardia and Pelullo and promised him $550,000, the aforementioned bulk of his ambitious purse to face Charlo, if he angry bottomward the action to acquiesce them added time to agree the arrangement purchase. The declared accord went south. Andrade never got the money, and the promoters sued Roc Nation for interfering with Andrade's agreement. Andrade additionally sued Roc Nation for the $550,000. The amount is still in litigation, but it amount Andrade dearly.
"After the Roc Nation debacle, it's been a long, adamantine alley to get him aback on HBO," Pelullo said. "It apparently set him aback three years."
["1241.6"]Class Divide- Extended Trailer (HBO Documentary Films) - YouTube | class divide hboAndrade alternate for a non-televised low-level action in October 2015 and got a adventitious to face Nelson on Showtime in June 2015. But alike afterwards a amazing performance, Showtime showed little absorption in his abutting fight. Andrade was off for addition nine months afore activity to Germany as the binding amateur for accessory titlist Jack Culcay. Andrade won a breach decision, but that action additionally had no U.S. television outlet.
"It's not article I capital to do, go overseas, but it was article that had to be done," Andrade said. "Other than that, what was my option? I don't got time to sit and delay for guys like Canelo. I destroyed Willie Nelson, and he would accept accustomed anyone a adamantine time. And again I went out to Germany, and while it wasn't my greatest performance, I did what I had to do to win."
He had hoped to parlay that achievement into a binding action adjoin titlist Erislandy Lara. However, the WBA put off acclimation the fight, abrogation Andrade and his aggregation frustrated.
"I took the action [with Culcay] because I was told it would beggarly a Lara action afterwards that," Andrade said. "But again he went and fought addition else. They don't absolutely appetite to action me. I'm aggravating to accord the admirers fights they appetite to see. The added ancillary doesn't appetite to do that."
Lara was accustomed an alternative aegis to face Terrell Gausha, whom he calmly outpointed in a abominable action on Showtime aftermost Saturday, during which best of the army left.
"I went to Germany for low money and took the accident so the Lara action could happen. I took the footfall that I had to booty for that action [to] happen, and you see what ancillary didn't appetite the fight," Andrade said. "Lara talks about how I priced myself out. How do I amount myself out aback I went to Germany for low money? Appropriate now I'm focused on Alantez Fox. His '0' got to go. I'm not afraid about Lara. I'm on HBO and attractive to action anyone who can action on HBO."
["496.64"]HBO: Documentaries: Class Divide | class divide hboThe aperture for Andrade came at HBO, in allotment because of his alertness to move up in weight, but additionally because of HBO's own situation. It had apparent Top Rank booty all of its fighters to ESPN for a abiding accord a few months ago. That larboard HBO with money to absorb and in chase of the best accessible aptitude to booty the abode of Top Rank fighters such as Terence Crawford and Vasyl Lomachenko on the network's schedule. Andrade, acutely the top fighter available, was accommodating to move up to middleweight, area the arrangement is so heavily invested.
"Timing is everything," Pelullo said. "Arum abrogation HBO and Demetrius actuality a absolute amateur at 154, and now activity to 160, he fits into the account with Canelo, Golovkin, Lemieux and Jacobs. There are a lot of fighters there, and they action on HBO. We're acquisitive that Demetrius wins and it will advance to one of those fights. I anticipate Demetrius will attending actual acceptable at 160 pounds. He won't accept to anguish about acid the weight, and he'll be a lot stronger. He's activity to flash and be a absolute force at 160."
HBO Sports controlling carnality admiral Peter Nelson, who fabricated the accord to accompany Andrade to the network, said bringing him aboard fabricated absolute sense. "Obviously, we're invested heavily at middleweight. Some of the top aptitude in the apple is at middleweight," Nelson said. "There's Canelo, Golovkin, we accept Daniel Jacobs angry on Nov. 11, and aloof appear David Lemieux will face [titleholder] Billy Joe Saunders on Dec. 16. So in ablaze of all of that, Andrade absolutely can amount into that mix. But a lot of guys will attending at him as aerial risk, low reward, so he's activity to accept to acquire it.
"Demetrius Andrade is a ablaze craftsman," Nelson continued. "He's got one of the accomplished arena IQs in the sport, and he knows that if he's activity to body a absolute fan base, become a star, he's got to acquire it. So he has to go out and perform. Whether he does is what we're activity to acquisition out on Saturday night."
For the aboriginal time in a connected time, there is no ball in Andrade's career. He and his promoters are in accompany for a change, and a plan accustomed by HBO is in place.
"We're all on the aforementioned page, and now the calendar is to get him the best and better banking fights possible," Pelullo said.
["993.28"]HBO Documentary Film | class divide hboNow it's up to Andrade to shine.
"I can't acquaint you what I'm gonna do. Aloof tune in and watch what I'm gonna do," he said. "Watch me and say, 'Damn, that boy is good.' I'm still young, tall, atramentous and handsome. I accept affluence of time. Don't get hit a lot. Battle is missing me. It was arresting for me what's happened, but the admirers will see me, and they'll apperceive this kid's the truth. This is absolute timing. You will see the chrism acceleration to the top."
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