{"id":6252,"date":"2013-08-08T14:06:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2013-08-15T14:12:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T18:12:04","slug":"andrade-stoked-for-title-shot-by-dan-rafael-of-espn-com-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/?p=6252","title":{"rendered":"Andrade Stoked For Title Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_position=&#8221;first last&#8221;] [vc_column] [vc_column_text el_position=&#8221;first last&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Dan Rafael of <a title=\"ESPN Boxing\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/boxing\/\" target=\"_blank\">espn.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Junior middleweight contender Demetrius Andrade is pumped up to be fighting for a world title. He gets to face Vanes Martirosyan for a vacant belt on Sept. 7 (HBO) on the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Brian Vera undercard at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am looking forward to this fight and have been waiting for this fight ever since I walked into the gym at age 7,\u201d Andrade said. \u201cI always wanted to be champion of the world, and on Sept. 7th, I will be crowned champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h4>ESPN.com Boxing on Twitter<\/h4>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss any of our wall-to-wall boxing coverage, including live analysis of Saturday&#8217;s fights.\u00a0<a title=\"Twitter ESPN\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNboxing\" target=\"_blank\">Join \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Andrade (19-0, 13 KOs) was supposed to travel to Ukraine to challenge Zaurbek Baysangurov for his 154-pound belt on July 6, but Baysangurov suffered a back injury, withdrew from the bout and was eventually stripped as per the terms of the purse bid that had taken place a couple of months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>That left Andrade, 25, of Providence, R.I., to face Martirosyan, the next leading available contender, for the vacant belt.<\/p>\n<p>Andrade was a star amateur who won a gold medal in the 2007 world amateur championships and was also a 2008 U.S. Olympian. But in Martirosyan (33-0-1, 21 KOs), Andrade will be facing another fighter with a strong amateur background. Martirosyan, 27, of Glendale, Calif., was a 2004 U.S. Olympian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to win an Olympic gold medal, and since they took that from me, I am going to take this world title,\u201d Andrade said. \u201cI was a 2008 Olympian, and he made it in 2004. I will show him that if I was around in 2003 and 2004, he would not have made the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text] [\/vc_column] [\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junior middleweight contender Demetrius Andrade is pumped up to be fighting for a world title. He gets to face Vanes Martirosyan for a vacant belt on Sept. 7 (HBO) on the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Brian Vera undercard at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[71,404],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-demetrius-andrade","tag-espn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6352,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions\/6352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}