New Friday Night Fights Main Event for 8/19: Grady Brewer vs Demetrius Andrade
by Scott Christ on Aug 10, 2011 9:01 PM EDT
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The season finale of Friday Night Fights on August 19 has a new main event, and it will feature junior middleweight prospect Demetrius Andrade in a serious step up for the first time in his young pro career.
Andrade (13-0, 9 KO) will be facing tough and dangerous veteran Grady Brewer (28-12, 16 KO) in the new main event, which replaces the aborted rematch between Mauricio Herrera and Ruslan Provodnikov. Lightweights David Diaz and Hank Lundy will still be in the co-feature at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana.
The 23-year-old Andrade has been featured frequently on Friday Night Fights, and has become a favorite target of color commentator Teddy Atlas, who has expressed a not-unpopular opinion that the 2007 welterweight gold medalist at the World Amateur Championships has feasted on woeful competition to date, and hasn't made as many strides as you would like to see from a standout amateur in his first 13 pro fights. Andrade was last seen on April 22 on Friday Night Fights running over Omar Bell in two rounds.
But Andrade does have talent. Whether or not pure talent will get him past the 40-year-old Brewer is another question. Brewer has struggled with injuries and inactivity since winning "The Contender" in 2006, but on June 17 he was in the Friday Night Fights main event against Fernando Guerrero, and he took Guerrero's "0" with a fourth round stoppage. Brewer showed he has plenty of gas left in the tank to at least be a prospect-checker, and Guerrero had already beaten far better competition than Andrade has to date.
In short, I quite like the fight. It's a legitimate risk taken by Andrade and his team, and a deserved chance for Brewer to show that his June win was no fluke.
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Like the M.E. a lot, and the C.F.’s respectable. If the card stays as is, I vote for the Kurzeja-Overbey rematch to open. ESPN pays attention to our votes, right?
Diaz-Lundy will be open. They always schedule for two fights and swings get in if there’s time between/after.
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by Scott Christ on Aug 10, 2011 9:40 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd presumed Diaz-Lundy as the co-feature
figured there’d be a 4 round opener.
by geraldmcgrew on Aug 10, 2011 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions
It is the co-feature. The co-feature always opens the show, and then if it ends early, there’s a swing fight inserted into the broadcast. If not, they go to the main event. If that ends early, there’s a swing fight inserted into the broadcast. ESPN always schedules for two fights guaranteed to air and then they work with what’s left.
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by Scott Christ on Aug 10, 2011 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Thanks
Missed most of this year. It’s changed from when something like a E. Lara 4 rounder would open.
by geraldmcgrew on Aug 10, 2011 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions
I second this
Andrade needs to take a step up. Sometimes his flaws are pretty obvious, but it will be nice to see how he does here. Always a fun guy to watch.
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