SIX DEGREES OF RECLAMATION
“A NICE WAY TO BRING THINGS FULL CIRCLE… GET PHOTOS OF THE TWO BELTS TOGETHER”
WHILE there aren’t many stories left to be told in boxing, an exception might be the one about the boxing coach training his fighter to win back the coach’s old title from one of the coach’s former sparring partners.
Not to be confused with a Rocky plotline, this story will at last be told on Friday (November 19),when Ireland’s Jason Quigley challenges Demetrius Andrade for Andrade’s WBO middleweight title, the same title Quigley’s coach, Andy Lee, won seven years ago in Las Vegas. If that’s not enough, Andrade, en route to becoming a belt-holder, happened to be one of Lee’s sparring partners, thus giving Friday’s fight some added spice and Lee – and of course Quigley – some priceless insight ahead of what looks, on the face of it, a tough assignment.
“To be completely honest,” said Lee, “I didn’t necessarily want the [title] fight for this next fight. I felt like after the [Shane] Mosley [Jnr] fight [in May] we could have had one or maybe two more fights because Jason’s still learning and growing mentally. The self-esteem he got
