Jean Pascal vs. Lucian Bute
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| Date | January 18, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title(s) on the line | NABF and vacant WBC Diamond Light Heavyweight titles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pascal beats Bute by unanimous decision.[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jean Pascal vs. Lucian Bute was a boxing light heavyweight Diamond championship fight for the vacant WBC Diamond title which took place on January 18, 2014 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[2][3][4][5][6] The bout, originally slated for May 25, 2013, had to be postponed after Bute underwent surgery to remove bone chips in his left hand.[7]
The co-production of Yvon Michel's GYM and Jean Bédard's Interbox promotions and televised via HBO, has trumped a proposed HBO-televised rematch between Jean Pascal and RING and WBC 175-pound champion Chad Dawson that was slated for the same date at Bell Centre in Montreal. Lucian Bute had the right to face Carl Froch in a contractually obligated rematch for the IBF Super Middleweight belt, but passed on that, freeing the Englishman to face Mikkel Kessler.[8]
It was the biggest fight in Canadian history since 1980, when Roberto Durán won a 15-round decision to win the welterweight world title in his first fight against Sugar Ray Leonard at Montreal's Olympic Stadium in front of 46,000 spectators.[9] Bute, who is fighting out of Montreal, versus Pascal was pitting the two biggest draws and most popular fighters in Canadian boxing who are considered huge stars in Quebec.[9] Pascal ended up winning the fight by unanimous decision.[1]
Background
[edit | edit source]Pascal
[edit | edit source]Pascal came off a unanimous-decision triumph over Aleksy Kuziemski in December 2012 that helped him to rebound from the unanimous-decision loss to Bernard Hopkins in May 2011.[8]
Bute
[edit | edit source]Bute came off a unanimous-decision victory over previously unbeaten Denis Grachev in November 2012, which helped him to rebound from last May's fifth-round knockout loss to Froch that dethroned him as titleholder.[8]
Reported fight earnings
[edit | edit source]- Jean Pascal $2,000,000 vs. Lucian Bute $2,000,000
Fight Card
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| Weight Class | Result | Round | Time | Notes | ||||
| Light Heavyweight | Canada Jean Pascal | vs. | Romania Lucian Bute | WBC Diamond Light Heavyweight Championship belt | ||||
| Heavyweight | Cuba Mike Perez | vs. | Cameroon Carlos Takam | |||||
| Light Heavyweight | Colombia Eleider Álvarez | vs. | Canada Andrew Gardiner | |||||
| Bantamweight | Canada Sebastien Gauthier | vs. | Mexico Javier Franco | |||||
| Welterweight | Canada Mikaël Zewski | vs. | Poland Krzysztof Szot | |||||
| Light Middleweight | Canada Sebastien Bouchard | vs. | Italy Giuseppe Lauri | |||||
| Light Welterweight | Canada Yves Ulysse Jr. | vs. | Belgium Evaggelos Tsirimokos | |||||
| Heavyweight | Colombia Oscar Rivas | vs. | Barbados Shawn Cox | |||||
| Light Heavyweight | Russia Artur Beterbiev | vs. | France Gabriel Lecrosnier | |||||
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Notes
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