1. Andre Michael Berto was born on September 7,1983 and is a professional boxer who holds dual Haitian and American citizenship.
65 Facts About Andre Berto
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Andre Berto represented Haiti at the 2004 Olympics, reaching the opening round of the welterweight bracket.
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Andre Berto reached the peak of his career in 2011, holding the WBC welterweight title which he had won in 2008 and made five defenses, and was ranked as the world's third best welterweight, behind then-top stars Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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Andre Berto's success was cut short after his first career loss to Victor Ortiz in 2011, which won Fight of the Year honors by The Ring magazine.
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The son of Haitian immigrants, Andre Berto was one of seven children born and raised in Winter Haven, Florida.
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Andre Berto was introduced to boxing by his father after getting beat up multiple times by classmates.
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Andre Berto was a two-time US National Golden Gloves champion, a two-time National PAL champion, a three-time US amateur championship medalist, and won 22 state titles in Florida.
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Andre Berto was an odds-on favorite to breeze through the 2004 Olympic Trials and qualify as a member of the US Olympic boxing squad.
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Andre Berto was winning the fight, before McPherson bumped into him before being pushed to the canvas, and was deemed in no condition to continue.
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Andre Berto won that bout as well and prepared for the finals before a follow-up meeting the night before reverted to the initial ruling, eliminating Andre Berto from the tournament.
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Andre Berto lost in the first-round to Xavier Noel of France.
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From December 2004 to October 2006, Andre Berto won 15 fights, with 13 coming by way of knockout.
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On December 12,2006, at the Alltel Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas, Andre Berto stepped up in competition and fought Miguel Figueroa.
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Andre Berto put together a one-sided destruction of Figueroa, eventually forcing the referee to stop the fight in round six.
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Andre Berto's next fight took place on February 17,2007, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, against Norberto Bravo of The Contender.
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Andre Berto defeated Bravo by first-round technical knockout after Bravo was knocked down three times, triggering the three knockdown rule.
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On May 19,2007, Andre Berto defeated Martinus Clay by seventh-round technical knockout.
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Andre Berto was in full control until he was down for the first time in his career in round six.
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Andre Berto was able to recover and open up a bad cut over Rivera's right eye in the seventh round.
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On September 29,2007, at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Andre Berto defeated David Estrada by eleventh-round technical knockout to win the NABF welterweight title.
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The end came when Andre Berto dropped Estrada with an uppercut that was followed up by a huge right hand.
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Estrada made it to his feet, but could not defend himself as Andre Berto attacked with more damaging shots that prompted the referee to jump in and stop the fight.
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On June 21,2008, Andre Berto captured the vacant WBC welterweight title left vacant by Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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Andre Berto made the second defense of his title on January 17,2009, at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Mississippi, against former WBA welterweight champion Luis Collazo.
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Andre Berto got off to a rough start as he was hurt in the first round and had a point deducted in the fourth round for holding Collazo's arm.
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In round seven, Andre Berto opened a cut over the left eye of Collazo.
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On Saturday, May 30,2009, Andre Berto defended his WBC welterweight title against former IBF light welterweight champion Juan Urango and won a lopsided unanimous decision setting up a fight with Shane Mosley.
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Andre Berto was to defend his title against "Sugar" Shane Mosley for a WBC, WBA welterweight title unification bout on January 30,2010.
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However, Andre Berto announced that he was withdrawing from his title unification bout against Mosley on January 18,2010, due to family loss in the Haiti earthquake.
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On November 27,2010, Andre Berto scored a TKO victory over Freddy Hernandez.
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Andre Berto hammered Hernandez with a left hook, then floored him with a straight right during the co-feature fight of the Juan Manuel Marquez-Michael Katsidis lightweight championship bout.
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On September 3,2011, Andre Berto returned after his defeat to Victor Ortiz to face IBF welterweight champion and Ring Top 10 welterweight Dejan Zavec.
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Andre Berto called his performance "so-so", becoming a two-time world champion and the new IBF welterweight champion.
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Andre Berto relinquished his IBF welterweight title rather than face mandatory challenger Randall Bailey in order to facilitate the rematch with Ortiz because he wanted the opportunity to avenge his only defeat.
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Josesito Lopez replaced Andre Berto and fought Ortiz on the scheduled date at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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Andre Berto's next fight was scheduled for November 24,2012, in Ontario, California.
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Andre Berto was knocked down twice early in the fight but came back well to give Guerrero a tough scrap, but Guerrero managed to narrowly maintain control and won via unanimous decision.
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Andre Berto was going into this fight having not won since 2011.
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Andre Berto landed jabs often throughout the fight gaining confidence with right uppercuts and straight right hands to Chambers' head.
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Chambers did let his hands go in some rounds unloading flurrie but never took control of the fight as Andre Berto seemed to be more comfortable with the pace of the fight.
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On January 22,2015, it was announced that Andre Berto would fight Josesito Lopez on March 13, as part of the new Premier Boxing Champions series on Spike TV.
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Andre Berto won the fight via TKO in round 6 to claim the vacant title.
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Lopez was the busier fighter landing solid punches, while Andre Berto landed sharp Jabs and some hard rights hand.
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In round 6, Andre Berto landed 3 hard right hands in that dropped Lopez.
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Andre Berto beat the count, another right hand put Lopez down again causing the referee to stop the fight at 1 minute and 3 seconds.
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Andre Berto was booed following the win due to the fight taking place in Lopez's home state.
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Andre Berto landed sharp counters and feint hooks while controlling range for the vast majority of the bout.
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Andre Berto was down once in the 2nd round but was able to beat the count and subsequently came on strongly in round 4.
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Andre Berto stated afterwards that he would be willing to face Ortiz in a rubber match before then going on to call out WBC champion Danny Garcia.
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In front of 9,118, Andre Berto failed to earn a world title fight when he was dropped and stopped in round 9.
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Andre Berto suffered his fifth defeat in his last nine fights.
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Porter used power shots to the body of Andre Berto to wear him down over the rounds.
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Andre Berto was dropped in round 2, the same round Porter suffered a bad cut from clash of heads.
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Porter was the busier fighter, landing 175 of 448 punches thrown, whilst Andre Berto landed 81 of 254 thrown.
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Andre Berto has great skills, but at the same time, he's going to be rough and try to handle me any way he can.
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Porter earned $1 million whilst Andre Berto got the higher amount of $1.2 million for the fight.
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ESPN's Dan Rafael announced on April 28,2018, that a deal had been reached for Andre Berto to fight former 2-weight world champion Devon Alexander on the Errol Spence Jr.
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Andre Berto was dropped earlier on but rallied on in the second half of the fight to win a controversial split decision.
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The knockdown stood because Andre Berto had rotated his head before the punches landed.
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Alexander began to tire around midway and Andre Berto started taking over.
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In round 7, after trading on the inside, Andre Berto suffered a cut near his right eye.
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Andre Berto was at his best in round 12 using both hands.
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Websites, Boxing Scene and BadLeftHook had Alexander the winner and felt although Andre Berto caught up in the later rounds, he did not do enough to win the fight.
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Andre Berto stated he was not interested in a rematch as he was at the point in his career where he only wanted paydays.
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Andre Berto's late father Dieuseul was a retired professional kickboxer who competed at UFC 10, while his sister Revelina and brother James Edson Andre Berto are both professional mixed martial artists themselves.