Demetrius Andrade

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Demetrius "Boo Boo" Andrade

Real name	Demetrius Cesar Andrade
Nickname(s)	Boo Boo
Rated at	Welterweight
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)^[1]
Nationality	United States
Birth date	February 26, 1988 (1988-02-26) (age 20)
Birth place	Rhode Island
Stance	N/A
Boxing record
Total fights	N/A
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Wins by KO	N/A
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Medal record
Competitor for United States
Men’s Boxing
Pan American Games
Silver	Rio 2007	Welterweight
World Amateur Championships
Gold	Chicago 2007	Welterweight

Demetrius "Boo Boo" Andrade (b. February 26, 1988, in Providence, Rhode Island ) is an amateur welterweight boxer from the United States best known to win the 2007 world championships. Demetrius won the 2007 Olympic box-off at 152 pounds, where he will represent the United States in the 2008 Olympics. He is trained by David Keefe and his father, Paul Andrade.^[2]

[edit] Career

A Providence native of Cape Verdean descent, Andrade (pronounced "AN-draid") began boxing in 1994 at the age of 6. His nickname is "Boo Boo" and he currently competes in the welterweight division.

Andrade won the United States Amateur Boxing Championship in 2005, and repeated in 2006 when he also won the National Golden Gloves. He again won the National Golden Gloves in 2007, but did not compete in the U.S. Amateurs that year due to injury.

Andrade initially struggled at the international level, losing to Eastern European opponents at the World Cup in 2005 and 2006. However, he won the silver medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, losing controversially in the gold medal match to Brazilian hometown favorite Pedro Lima by a narrow 7-6 margin.

He won Gold at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, where he beat Kakhaber Zhvania, Dmitrijs Sostaks, 2005 silver medalist Magomed Nurutdinov, Jack Culcay-Keth, Adem Kılıçcı in the semifinal round and then battered Non Boonjumnong of Thailand in the finals, a match in which Andrade inflicted a standing eight count upon Boonjumnong and was leading by a score of 10-1 after only one round when Boonjumnong retired with an injury. By finishing in the top eight in his weight class, Andrade immediately qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.