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Steven Butler put in a methodical performance that allowed him to stop dangerous veteran Carson Jones in the seventh round on Saturday night at the Montreal Casino in Montreal. Jones (40-14-3, 30 KOs) had already visited the mat on two occasions - in the fifth and sixth rounds - before referee Alain Villeneuve decided that he had seen enough at 50 seconds of the seventh.
According to Umar Kremlev, the General Secretary of the Russian Boxing Federation, they are loading up the undercard for the scheduled World Boxing Super Series final between cruiserweight champions Oleksandr Usyk and Murat Gassiev.
Promoter Yvon Michel of GYM is a busy man these days. The Canadian promoter is currently in discussions for several potential showdowns in the near future. Michel has revealed that NABF heavyweight champion Oscar "Kaboom" Rivas (24-0, 17 KOs) has received an offer to face former world title challenger Bryant Jennings (23-2, 13 KOs), ranked #8 by the WBO and #13 by the WBA.
Karim Renno, the lawyer for IBF light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev, has confirmed to the Montreal Journal that his office filed documents to appeal the recent judgment that came down in favor of Canadian promoter Yvon Michel of GYM.
A deal is inching closer for the final fight of the World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) cruiserweight tournament, which features a showdown between Russia's Murat Gassiev and Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk for the WBC, WBO, WBA, IBF world titles.
The Russian Boxing Federation has continued their uneasy negotiations with respect to the venue and the location of the final round of the World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) cruiserweight tournament, which features a showdown between Russia's Murat Gassiev and Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk for the WBC, WBO, WBA, IBF world titles.
As BoxingScene.com reported last week, promoter Yvon Michel of GYM was victorious in his long legal battle with IBF light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev. Beterbiev was attempting to break away from Michel, who claimed the boxer was still under a multi-year promotional agreement. In the end, a 10 page judgment in favor of Michel was issued last Friday by the Superior Court of Quebec. Beterbiev is bound to Michel until 2021.
After nearly a year of promotional confusion, IBF light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev has lost his legal case against promoter Yvon Michel of GYM. Beterbiev has attempting to invalidate his promotional agreement with Michel - and then jump over to fight under the banner of Top Rank.
This past weekend in Canada, manager Camille Estephan had categorically indicated that it was David Lemieux's last fight at middleweight. He said his boxer would make the jump to the super middleweight limit of 168-pounds. Lemieux struggled to make the middleweight limit for a scheduled fight with Frenchman Karim Achour on Saturday. He came in two pounds over the limit and was docked 20% of his purse after being unable to get down any lower.
On Saturday night at Centre Videotron in Quebec City, former IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (38-5, 33 KOs) won a twelve round unanimous decision over Karim Achour (26-5-3, 4 KOs). Achour went down in the twelfth and final round, and the official judges handed down scorecards of 119-108, 120-107 and 119-107.