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On the sidelines of the official inauguration of the new Boxing Club Imperium of Terrebonne, which is situated in the suburbs north of Montreal, BoxingScene/Netboxe.com had the pleasure of speaking with Nicholson Poulard (15-3-0). The latter confirmed his next presence in the ring.
The current IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (27-0-0) spoke to the media for the last time before leaving Québec for Florida, where he plans to prepare for the duel on March 19 at the Bell Centre in Montreal. He will defend the title against Irishman Brian Magee (34-3-1), the current European champion, on the weekend of St. Patrick's Day. Magee, a southpaw, who has not tasted defeat since 2006 when he bowed out to Carl Froch, and he is ranked # 1 WBA, # 4 WBC and IBF # 8 when accepting the fight against Bute.
According to information obtained by Vincent Morin of 24H, the President of Interbox, Jean Bedard, said Showtime was seriously considering the possibility of staging one of the semi-final bouts of the Super Six tournament in Montreal.
SP Promotions presents a big card on February 25 at the Centre Pierre-Charbonneau in Montreal. Heavyweight Sylvera Louis (2-1-0) will return to the ring. In his last battle fought on November 11 at the Corona Theatre, Louis was knocked out with a few seconds left in first round by Ukraine's Andriy Ivanov (4-6-0).
A vote taken by the Board of Governors of the WBC was released on Thursday and the sanctioning body has ordered a rematch between Bernard Hopkins and their reigning light heavyweight champion, Jean Pascal. From what BoxingScene.com/Netboxe.com has learned, the two sides have 30 days to reach an agreement. If they fail, a purse bid will be held in Mexico City on February 4. The winner of the battle will then be required to compete with former champion Chad Dawson.
Matt O'Brien (18-1-0) of British Columbia will return to the ring in the new year. His name is actually on the card being staged at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington on January 8. O'Brien will face Lafarrell Bunting (17-3-1) in the main battle of the evening.
Antonin Decarie (24-1-0) already knows the identity of the opponent he will face on February 11 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, as part of the third event in the Fast and Furious series, presented by the Groupe Yvon Michel. He will take on lefty Shamone Alvarez (21-3-0) of New Jersey, a former NABO champion (2007).
The WBC has just done to climb the boxer of Laval David Lemieux of another walks in his world-wide classification of the average weight, the installing to the second rung, all just one behind the Mexican Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. This new one gives can by the fact even to allow Yvon Michel to have a winning hand and to allow him to pass besides the foreseen fight facing Marco Antonio Rubio. Let's recall that the WBC ordered at the time of his last congress a duel éliminatoire for the statute of world-wide inhale between David Lemieux and Marco Antonio Rubio, equally Mexico. Yvon Michel would like presented this fight to Montreal in April at the time of the last event of the Quick and series Dangerous. Nevertheless, incapable to convince the clan of Rubio, the two groups be probably opposed to participate in the offer call that will launch the WBC in January for the organization of this fight. On the other hand, by virtue of this new classification, David Lemieux could be called to confront directly the interim champion Sebastian Zbik. Of fact, if it happened that the current champion of the world WBC Sergio Gabriel Martinez refuses to confront Sebastian Zbik as the orders the WBC, Martinez would lose his crown and Zbik would be promoted champion. This promotion would be nevertheless subject to a victory facing an inhaling one designated by the WBC and the penalty organism can then ordered a fight between David Lemieux and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for this new statute of inhale. In the case of a refusal of Chavez to confront Lemieux, this one would have therefore frank cubits to confront directly Sebastian Zbik.
Following his recent performance against the American Omar Sheik, who also announced his retirement following the clash, fans were disappointed that Adrian Diaconu was not on the undercard of the huge event presented by InterBox at the Bell Centre on March 19, which includes Lucian Bute vs. Brian Magee in the main event.
WBC/IBO light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal spoke with BoxinScene.com/Netboxe.com about last Saturday's twelve round draw with veteran Bernard Hopkins at the Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec, Canada.