GL: What's the latest and greatest? When can we expect to see you back in the ring? There's no fight date right now, that's what we're working on, some opponents who want to step into the ring. I'm prepared to face anybody at 154 lbs and at the middleweight division too. I'm ready to fight whoever we can get that's worthy enough. I don't know what these other guys do, but when I train and prepare I give it my all like I'm fighting one of the greatest, so I don't want to waste my time fighting tomato cans like a lot of other guys in the division. I think that's a waste of time. I' at the point of my career where I want to fight the big names. I want to fight the Lara's, the Charlo's or whoever people feel is one of the top fighters at this weight class or middleweight. I was willing to step in there with David Lemiuex and they turned the fight down, so it's hard for me to get the fights that I want. I can do the tomato can thing, but I don't want to get prepared for that.
GL: I spoke with Joe DeGuardia not too long ago and he said that you guys tried to make a fight with Lara and he wanted nothing to do with it. You hold the WBA title and he holds the WBA super championship, so you're basically his mandatory challenger and they still didn't want the fight. How do you feel about the fight between you and Lara?
Demetrius Andrade: "It's something that boxing fans always wanted to see. I would take it, but clearly he don't want to do it, but at the end of the day Lara is not spectacular and he hasn't been fighting anybody you could mention or consider one of the best. You could see the route that he wants to go and that's fighting nobody."
GL: If you had it your way who would you want to fight next?
DA: "The winner between GGG and Canelo."
GL: Really? You would want to make your middleweight debut against the winner of that fight?
DA: "Yeah, why not? Canelo is doing it. I don't know what Canelo has that I don't have. He's not pretty and he's not slick like your boy though."
GL: So you don't have a solid target date for your return?
DA: "We need to have an opponent ready to fight me before I can get a date. What am I going to do? Do you guys really want to see me fight a nobody? I don't want to fight a nobody."
GL: No, I don't. But the fans do want to see you back in the ring, you went all the way to Germany to get that belt.
DA: "And that goes to show that I'm willing to go anywhere I have to go in order to be where I want to be, and that's among the best in the game. Now I'm looking for the top guys and it takes two to tango, so tell all of the other people that you interview at 154, ask them if they want to fight me and how soon."
GL: Who do you like in the GGG-Canelo fight?
DA: "Both of them. I like both of them because no matter what the winner of that fight is going to be a very good fighter for me to face. It doesn't matter to me who wins or loses, as long as the winner wants to fight me."
GL: The junior middleweight division is top heavy. After the top seven guys or so it's very thin. Is that what has you thinking about middlewight?
DA: "You could say that. A lot of the guys I want to fight at 154 don't want to take the challenge. At 160 there might be more opportunities for me to get in there with the top guys. Maybe some of those 147's want to come up like Shawn Porter, Keith Thurman or Kell Brook. The real 154's don't want to fight me, so it is what it is."
GL: What was it like to get that belt in Germany?
DA: "It was great because I know that is something alot of fighters can't do. Going overseas to win a world title isn't easy, but I did it because I believe in myself and my abilities."
GL: Do you think the Canelo camp finally agreed to fight GGG because they've seen some slippage in Golovkin in his last two fights with Brook and Jacobs?
DA: "What you're telling me and what people are seeing is, who did GGG really fight? And when he finally got in there with somebody who could fight he got hit so now people think there's a chance. Danny Jacobs could fight and a guy who came up from 147 were touching him up. David Lemiuex is a solid guy, but he's lost to some B level fighters in the past."
GL: Is there anything you'd like to say in closing?
DA: "Keep in touch with Demetrius Andrade, my time and my opportunity is coming and when it comes you guys are going to be like wow, what have we been missing!"
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