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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tale of the tape | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pascal beats Bute by unanimous decision.[1] |
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
Pascal
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
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
- Jean Pascal $2,000,000 vs. Lucian Bute $2,000,000
Fight Card
Fight card | ||||||||
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Weight Class | Result | Round | Time | Notes | ||||
Light Heavyweight | Jean Pascal | vs. | Lucian Bute | WBC Diamond Light Heavyweight Championship belt | ||||
Heavyweight | Mike Perez | vs. | Carlos Takam | |||||
Light Heavyweight | Eleider Álvarez | vs. | Andrew Gardiner | |||||
Bantamweight | Sebastien Gauthier | vs. | Javier Franco | |||||
Welterweight | Mikaël Zewski | vs. | Krzysztof Szot | |||||
Light Middleweight | Sebastien Bouchard | vs. | Giuseppe Lauri | |||||
Light Welterweight | Yves Ulysse Jr. | vs. | Evaggelos Tsirimokos | |||||
Heavyweight | Oscar Rivas | vs. | Shawn Cox | |||||
Light Heavyweight | Artur Beterbiev | vs. | Gabriel Lecrosnier |
International Broadcasting
Country / Region | Broadcaster |
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Australia | Main Event |
Brazil | SporTV |
Canada | Indigo |
Croatia | Fight Channel |
France | Canal+ Sport |
Hungary | Sport 1 |
Poland | Polsat Sport |
Romania | Digi Sport |
United States | HBO |
United Kingdom | Sky Sports |
Notes
- 1 2 "Jean Pascal tops Lucian Bute by decision". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ↑ "Bute-Pascal: c'est officiel" (in French). Le Journal de Montréal. 15 March 2013.
- ↑ "C'est fait: Bute affrontera Pascal le 25 mai" (in French). La Presse. 15 March 2013.
- ↑ "Lucian Bute-Jean Pascal superfight set for May 25". CANOE -- SLAM! Sports. 15 March 2013.
- ↑ "Pe stadion, dar nu la București – Bute va juca cu Pascal în aceeaşi zi în care Froch va boxa cu Kessler" (in Romanian). Gazeta Sporturilor. 14 March 2013.
- ↑ "OFICIAL: S-a semnat! Interviu EXCLUSIV cu Bute: "Sunt mai bun ca Pascal, îl voi epuiza fizic!"" (in Romanian). Prosport. 15 March 2013.
- ↑ http://www.boxingscene.com/bute-vs-pascal-announcement-expected-shortly--63294 Bute vs. Pascal Announcement is Expected Shortly
- 1 2 3 "Deal for Pascal-Bute bout signed". ESPN. 16 March 2013.
- 1 2 "Jean Pascal, Lucian Bute to fight". ESPN. 18 February 2013.