Andrade Eyes Redemption in a David Benavidez Rematch
If gifted his own twinkling wishing star, super middleweight fighter Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade (32-1, 19 KO’s) would get a shot at revenge. In his last duel, the former Olympian was thrashed and stopped by two-time 168-pound champion David “The Monster” Benavidez (29-0, 24 KO’s). Let Andrade tell it however, he was not in his right mind when chucking knuckles with Benavidez.
While conducting a brief Q&A with Mills City Boxing, Boo Boo revealed that during his camp for Benavidez, a couple of his close family members were fighting for their lives in the ICU. Naturally, this provided a huge distraction for Andrade when he took that emotional delirium in the ring and was trounced.
“I’m not spilling the beans, but I was telling people that I was dealing with two losses in my family. It was hard, it was depressing – lack of motivation in a sense too because I had to deal with that. I had one sibling in ICU in a coma and I had another close [person in bad health] and so the same day I am trying to go visit both and I got to train and I gotta think about it, and then me and my dad weren’t eye to eye. He only came for like one week before the fight. But life moves on.”
“A lot of people would have said I can’t take this fight right now because I’m dealing with these circumstances but I have priorities, I have obligations to me first, my family, what I have to do and I know that life moves on. So, therefore, I just kept walking on through, marching through whatever obstacle I had to go through and did it take a toll? Yeah, it took a toll! But win, lose or draw I would love to get the rematch because I would be more clear, things will be different and there will be a different end because I wont have lack of motivation.”
FORECAST – UNLIKELY
Provided a do-over, Andrade is sure that he can give The Monster a much better account of himself. The major trouble for Andrade is that he doesn’t offer Benavidez anything. Boo Boo is coming off a one-sided loss and he is new and unproven in the division. One glimmer of hope is that after moving to light heavyweight in his last match, Benavidez didn’t look so hot either.
Bearing this in mind, there is a miniscule possibility Benavidez spins the block to stage another potentially solid performance. Yet this wouldn’t advance his case at 168 or 175 toward proving his dominance or capturing another title. So while it’s unfortunate Andrade suffered those trials before his last duel, getting a second chance at The Monster appears exceedingly unlikely . At least not without putting in some serious work!
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