Comments Thread For: Malignaggi Gives High Praise To Andrade as One of The 'Most Talented of This Generation'

[boxing IQ]

Andrade is going to shock a lot of people come fight night. He wants his Crawford moment.

[SteveM]

Andrade struggled with Williams and culcay, now he's olde and fighting at a higher weight class but it's all going to come right for him? Unless Benavidez has a weak chin nobody knows about then this goes similar to Plant.

[SteveM]

Andrade is going to shock a lot of people come fight night. He wants his Crawford moment.

And that is based on what?

[boxing IQ]

And that is based on what?

He's just so much better than Benavidez. Benavidez could've countered Plant's clinching by taking a quarter-turn left hook, taking a half-step back rear uppercut, etc. Instead, he allowed Plant to smother his arm punches and spend the better part of six rounds in survival mode. Size and power mean nothing if you can't impose it. Canelo at 5'8 pulled it off with patience, timing, and no blueprint to follow. Unless they've been working on something real special this camp, I don't see how he has anything for Andrade's jab, timing, and footwork, let alone, his ability to make adjustments in the southpaw stance.

[BronxPride67]

Boo Boo bout to get alot of Boo Boo's

[SteveM]

He's just so much better than Benavidez. Benavidez could've countered Plant's clinching by taking a quarter-turn left hook, taking a half-step back rear uppercut, etc. Instead, he allowed Plant to smother his arm punches and spend the better part of six rounds in survival mode. Size and power mean nothing if you can't impose it. Canelo at 5'8 pulled it off with patience, timing, and no blueprint to follow. Unless they've been working on something real special this camp, I don't see how he has anything for Andrade's jab, timing, and footwork, let alone, his ability to make adjustments in the southpaw stance.

If Andrade has all of that why did he struggle so much against Culcay and Williams?

[boxing IQ]

If Andrade has all of that why did he struggle so much against Culcay and Williams?

Andrade has the thing, like a lot of these top tier guys, where he trains to the level of his competition, similar to how Crawford looked against Kavaliauskas compared to his performance against Spence. You know how it goes.

We've got three and a half weeks. It'll be a good fight.