Friday, October 24, 2008

Andrade relishes underdog role

'The pressure is on Bute,' Mexican super-middleweight says of IBF title fight with Montrealer Librado Andrade hears the cheers. He sees the homage paid to International Boxing Federation super-middleweight champ Lucian Bute.
Andrade saw it yesterday during the fighters' weigh-in. And he witnessed it a month ago, when the two completed a whirlwind two-day publicity tour through the province: Sherbrooke, Trois Rivières, Quebec, Chicoutimi and
Rimouski, by plane, in the span of 48 hours; one seated in the front of the charter, the other in the rear. Bizarre? Yes. Unusual? In the sport of boxing, sometimes, there is no logic.

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