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American middleweight boxer Demetrius Andrade looks a little like Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant. A shorter, skinnier, less muscular version. . . . OK, he looks nothing like Bryant. But try telling that to the Chinese, who mobbed Andrade when he left his seat at the boxing venue Monday and stepped onto the concourse in Beijing. Instantly a crowd of several hundred people gathered, pointing, taking pictures or just simply gawking. “It’s happened a couple of times before,” Andrade said with a laugh. Heavyweight Deontay Wilder is routinely mistaken for LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, by the way. But at least he’s 6-feet-7. Los Angeles Times
