Adonis Stevenson: record, next fight and profile →
Southpaw Adonis Stevenson and Deontay Wilder are two of boxing’s fiercest and most powerful knockout artists, and “Superman” and “The Bronze Bomber” will defend their respective WBC 175-pound and WBC heavyweight crowns from separate sites on Saturday night.
Southpaw Adonis Stevenson said “I want to win this fight by knockout” for fans who “want to see a body on the canvas” in pursuit of his 10th WBC 175-pound title defense and seventh stoppage during that time against Ukrainian 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Oleksander Govzdyk at Centre Videotron in Quebec City on Showtime (7:45 ET/ 4:45 PT) on Saturday night.
Stevenson, Gvozdyk Weights Photos Gallery - Boxing’s longest reigning world champion, Adonis Stevenson, and undefeated, mandatory challenger Oleksandr Gvozdyk made weight Friday just one day ahead of Stevenson’s 10th defense of his WBC Light Heavyweight Title in a SHOWTIME BOXING: SPECIAL EDITION telecast Saturday, December 1 from Videotron Center in Quebec City.
Stevenson, Gvozdyk Final Press Conference Photos Gallery - QUEBEC CITY – Boxing’s longest reigning world champion, Adonis Stevenson, and undefeated, mandatory challenger Oleksandr Gvozdyk faced off Thursday at the final press conference ahead of Stevenson’s 10th defense of his WBC Light Heavyweight Title in a SHOWTIME BOXING: SPECIAL EDITION telecast Saturday, December 1 from Videotron Center in Quebec City.
It was early 2014, and the stage appeared to be set for a monster 175-pound unification supremacy clash on HBO between Haitian-born Canadian southpaw Adonis “Superman” Stevenson and Russian Sergey “The Krusher” Kovalev.
In the months since battling two-division champion Badou Jack to a draw in May, WBC 175-pound champion Adonis Stevenson turned 41 years old in September and experienced the November birth of his fifth child and fourth daughter, Adonia.
WBO light heavyweight champion Eleider Alvarez plans to watch left-handed WBC counterpart Adonis Stevenson defeat Oleksander Gvozdyk on December 1 and beat Sergey Kovalev for the second time in February before winning a unification against Stevenson sometime in 2019, he told BoxingScene.com recently.
WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson is hoping that his countryman, Jean Pascal, wins big this coming weekend in Atlantic City. Pascal will challenge undefeated WBA light heavyweight world champion Dmitry Bivol - who Stevenson is not very impressed with.
WBA super middleweight champion Callum Smith (25-0, 18 KOs) is aiming to have a major fight at the end of May. And former unified super middleweight and light heavyweight champion Andre Ward (32-0, 16 KOs) is one of the names on his short-list.
Adonis Stevenson will make the 10th defense of his WBC Light Heavyweight World Championship against undefeated, mandatory challenger Oleksandr Gvozdyk to start the action live from Videotron Centre in Quebec City, Canada. The two-fight telecast presented by Premier Boxing Champions continues live from Los Angeles, where Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. will take on Alfredo Angulo in a 10-round super middleweight clash at STAPLES Center.