Demetrius Andrade has said he will continue to hit out at boxing’s biggest names if they refused to meet him in the ring.
The WBO middleweight champion gatecrashed Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez’s press conference after his win over Billy Joe Saunders the weekend before last in an attempt to pressure the Mexican champion to make a fight between the pair.
Speaking to the DAZN Boxing Show, Andrade made it clear he would not lay off other fighters as he searches for more high-profile opponents, with promoter Eddie Hearn backing his fighter.
“I’m going to do whatever I need to do to make it happen, and that’s just the bottom line,” he said.
“That’s for every single person out there in the world. Only you are going to make a difference and sometimes you have to do things out of the ordinary. I didn't do anything new. Boxing is the only sport where you can run up on someone’s press conference and be, ‘Yo, when are we going to fight?’
“We’re originals, so I just kept it going. Let’s just do it, hop on these fights.”
Andrade has grown frustrated with criticism that he has yet to convince with the opponents he faces, with Canelo saying to him, ‘Who have you fought? Nobody!’ when they confronted one another.
The two-division champion claimed he was being denied the fights that he really wanted.
“I did it with Canelo, I did it with [Jermell] Charlo, I did it with GGG [Gennadiy Golovkin], and I’m going to continue to do it to the top, elite, best-of-the-best guys. When you say I don’t fight nobody, it’s like, why does everyone deserve to get into the ring but me? Charlo - let’s fight then.
“Every time I see Charlo, every time I see GGG. It’s on. Let’s get paid. What’s the point of me fighting Canelo outside the ring?”