unbeaten middleweight titleholder demetrius andrade will make a defense against welshman liam williams on dazn.
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DEMETRIUS ANDRADE (29-0, 18 KOs) VS.
LIAM WILLIAMS (23-2-1, 18 KOs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMEIKnCwt_U&t=18s
- Date: Saturday, April 17
- Time: 3 p.m. ET / noon PT (main event later in show)
- Where: Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood, Fla.
- TV/Stream: DAZN
- Cost: DAZN: $19.99 per month or $99 annually
- Division: Middelweight
- At stake: Andrade’s WBO title
- Pound-for-pound ranking: None
- Odds: Andrade 2½-1 favorite
- Also on the card: Carlos Gongora vs. Christopher Pearson, super middleweights; Mahammadrasul Majidov vs. Andrey Fedosov, heavyweights
- Prediction: Andrade UD
- Background: Andrade will be making the fourth defense of the 160-pound title he won by nearly shutting out Walter Kautondokwa in October 2018. However, the talented Rhode Islander has yet to face a top-tier opponent at or near his weight. It’s not for lack of trying. He has called out everyone from Canelo Alvarez to Gennadiy Golovkin to Jermall Charlo and nothing has come from it. Enter Williams. The 28-year-old Welshman doesn’t have the name recognition of the champions mentioned above but he is no pushover. He has won seven consecutive fights since losing back-to-back outings against Liam Smith in 2017, the first as a result of a cut and the second a majority decision. He last fought in October, when he stopped Andrew Robinson in one round. Perhaps just as important as notching the wins, he seems to have improved considerably since the setbacks. That said, he has never tangled with anyone at Andrade’s level. We’re going to learn a lot about Williams in this fight. Andrade is coming off a ninth-round knockout of Luke Keeler in January of last year.
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