Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez was involved in a heated exchange of words with Demetrius Andrade following his win over Billy Joe Saunders on Saturday night, with the American having to be removed from the post-fight press conference.
Alvarez produced a ferocious uppercut in the eighth round of his unification title fight which broke Saunders’ right eye socket and forced the British fighter to retire on his stool before immediately being taken to hospital in an ambulance.
No sooner had the Mexican seen off one opponent before he was involved in another scrap, with Andrade – who has been trying to fight Alvarez for years – crashing the post-match media interview and provoking a heated row between the two men.
Interrupting the questions, Andrade started clapping and said: ‘So when can we get something going on? Let’s make it happen. What’s up Canelo? Congratulations today though, good job baby, good job. I’m a big fan… but what’s up though? When can we make it happen? What you think?’
Canelo was in no mood for Andrade to try and steal his thunder, retorting in perfect English: ‘I know [you’re a fan]. Man, you fight with nobody. You are a champion but you fight with nobody. You won the belt with nobody.’
WBO middleweight belt-holder Andrade hit back: ‘A lot of people haven’t fought nobody. What you mean bro? Rocky Fielding [who Canelo beat in 2018] – who he fight?’
Things started to escalate at this point, with Andrade’s father and trainer Paul also shouting at Canelo: ‘You avoid him at 154, you avoid him at 160, now you’re going to avoid him at 168.’
Security started to ask the two men to leave, while Eddie Hearn – who also promotes Andrade – pleaded with them to stop, before Alvarez shouted: ‘Get the f*** out of here man. Please, get the f*** out of here. It’s my night.’
Andrade’s father then exploded and was immediately escorted out, yelling: ‘Don’t you say to him to get out here. F*** you. Go ahead, come. Come. Be a b****. F*** you.’
Andrade himself also flung insults at Alvarez, saying: ‘Don’t swear at me. Don’t talk to my dad like that. I’ll f*** you up. I just asked you a simple question. What you gonna do? You tough? Watch your mouth bro. I congratulated you bro, watch your mouth.’
Canelo immediately returned fire, saying: ‘Hey, get the f*** out of here because I’m gonna f*** you up right now motherf***er. Hey, get the f*** out of here.
‘Hey, you are a horrible fighter man. You never won against a good fighter. You are a horrible fighter. Horrible fighter. Just pay day, pay day, you want pay day, I know that.’
At this point Andrade was finally escorted out of the press conference room, though could still be heard shouting: ‘Come beat me little b****. When I see you, it’s on.’
That only prompted amusement and mocking from Canelo, who quickly got back to answering questions about his win over Saunders and made it clear his intention is to unify the division by beating Caleb Plant next.
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