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MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

NOVEMBER 20

THERE may not be a career more undistinguished, irrelevant, and reeking of desperation than that of Demetrius Andrade, and in boxing, a sport no stranger to mediocrity, that is saying something.

Long criticised for playing with his food against middling opposition, the undefeated – yet sorely unchallenged – middleweight title-holder from Providence, Rhode Island made mincemeat of Ireland’s Jason Quigley, scoring three knockdowns on his way to earning a stoppage at 2-21 of the second round at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire.

To be sure, the knockout is a much needed reprieve from the usual 12-round slog viewers are subjected to in an Andrade fight, but at this point – four years