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| The long walk to middleweight stardom can be dauning |
Demetrius Andrade made his middleweight debut this evening at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, New York. Right from the word go, the Rhode Island native looked impressive. For he rocked his very tall opponent, Alantez Fox, within seconds, and then wisely took to breaking his man down throughout the rest of the first round. Here's the thing, though - Andrade never finished his man off. This in and of itself might not have been a bad thing. Fox looked to simply be wanting to survive, after all. Not only that, Andrade looked as if he wasn't at his best. In fact, my father - a master fight fan if ever there was one - felt Andrade's leg was cramping.
Still, Andrade brings with him a high set of expectations due to his superior skill set and impressive background. In other words, he's expected to mow through unknowns. And, even though he clearly dominated Fox for an easy 12 round decision win, Andrade didn't look like a man who could make the likes of Gennady Golovkin or Canelo Alvarez shake in their boots. Andrade may still be able to be a major player, perhaps even the dominant player, at middleweight, but he left the fight world with some questions on Saturday. Perhaps more questions than were floating around when he first entered the ring at the Turning Stone.
