By: Sean Crose
Former WBO middleweight titlist Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade made his tremendous middleweight debut Saturday evening on the Capital One Arena in Washington, DC. His opponent within the scheduled 10 spherical affair was the largely unknown Demond Nicholson. The 31-0 Andrade hoped to impress with a purpose to usher in a few of his new division’s larger names whereas the 26-4-1 Nicholson hoped to shock the boxing world. Andrade pounced ahead like a missile on the opening bell. Nicholson survived this speedy assault, then tried to maintain Andrade at a distance. Overall, nonetheless, the primary was one thing of a chaotic affair, with Andrade swinging with dangerous intentions and Nicholson working to climate the preliminary storm.
Andrade labored to land clear each excessive and low within the second. An awkward mixture put Nicholson down with over a minute left within the spherical. Nicholson acquired to his ft, beating the depend and searching no worse for put on, however nonetheless couldn’t make a lot occur in opposition to the previous middleweight titlist. The third noticed Andrade firing arduous and successfully from vary. Nicholson, who claimed to be damage earlier within the spherical, merely couldn’t discover success. The fourth proved to be no extra profitable Nicholson. Andrade’s energy punching prevented him from being in any respect efficient.
Surprisingly, Andrade went down in the course of the first minute of the fifth, however it wasn’t dominated a knockdown. Andrade acquired up and continued to struggle effectively. Still, by the sixth, Andrade’s left eye was displaying some harm. With that being mentioned, Nicholson couldn’t preserve Andrade from tossing off mixtures just about at will. What’s extra, Andrade went on to kind of make it look straightforward within the seventh. Simply put – the person hit whereas primarily not getting hit. Suffice to say, Nicholson hit the mat once more on the finish of the spherical, however it wasn’t dominated a knockdown.
By the eighth, issues had gotten to such a state that the struggle had taken on the air of a sparring session for Andrade. After a dominant ninth for the Rhode Islander, the 2 males embraced at first of the tenth and last spherical. Andrade continued to fireside off energy punches, however simply didn’t appear to have the ability to shut the present (although he did rating one other flash knockdown on Nicholson). Regardless – Andrade walked out of the ring after the ultimate bell with a large unanimous determination win on his resume.
