Lucian Bute and Jean Pascal aren’t world champions anymore and respective losses to Carl Froch and Bernard Hopkins have hurt the brands of both boxers.
You wouldn’t know it based on the stir their light heavyweight showdown has caused in boxing-crazed Quebec, where the Romanian-born Bute (31-1, 24 KOs) and the Haitian-born Pascal (28-2-1, 17 KOs) reside and have developed large fan bases in recent years. A sellout crowd of 21,000 is expected to attend a card headlined by their 12-round light heavyweight fight Saturday night at Bell Centre in Montreal, home of the NHL’s Canadiens.
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You wouldn’t know it based on the stir their light heavyweight showdown has caused in boxing-crazed Quebec, where the Romanian-born Bute (31-1, 24 KOs) and the Haitian-born Pascal (28-2-1, 17 KOs) reside and have developed large fan bases in recent years. A sellout crowd of 21,000 is expected to attend a card headlined by their 12-round light heavyweight fight Saturday night at Bell Centre in Montreal, home of the NHL’s Canadiens.
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