David Lemieux Stops Oswaldo Gonzalez

By Boxing News - 07/12/2008 - Comments

lemiux54635.jpgBy Chris Williams: Undefeated light middleweight prospect David Lemieux (9-0, 9 KOs) kept up his perfect record of knockout victories with a 2nd round stoppage of Oswaldo Gonzalez (1-9-1, 1 KOs) on Friday night at the Uniprix Stadium, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Lemieux, 19, dropped Gonzalez with a crushing left hand in the 2nd round. After Gonzalez got up off the canvas, received a standing eight count, he was met with a storm of tremendous shots from Lemieux, which backed Gonzalez up to his corner. Things didn’t get any easy there, for Lemieux bombarded Gonzalez with a flurry of speedy shots to the midsection ending with another big left hand to the head, dropping Gonzalez to the canvas for the second and final time in the round. At that point, referee Gerry Bolen stepped in and halted the fight at 1:53.

Though he’s only had nine fights, the murderous punching Lemieux is quickly proving himself as one of the hardest punchers in the light middleweight division. With a left hook that few other light middleweights can match, Lemieux has destroyed all nine of his opponents to date, and not giving any of them much of a chance to stay in with him long enough to expose his rather poor defense.

This was the case on Friday night against Gonzalez, as Lemieux, lacking any kind of finesse, immediately tore into Gonzalez in the 1st round, hitting him with huge left hooks to the head, and stalking him around the ring like he was a wounded animal.

Gonzalez, however, found it incredibly easy to hit Lemieux, who left himself wide open as he came forward trying to take Gonzalez’s head off with every shot. Fortunately for Lemieux, Gonzalez wasn’t much of a puncher to speak of because he was giving him far too many chances to land shots with his sloppy defense. Lemieux cornered Gonzalez against the ropes and assaulted him with a series of massive shots to the head, and succeeded in dropping him. However, the referee ruled that Lemieux had hit Gonzalez with a low blow, a left to the hip, before knocking him down with a right hand.

As such, the knockdown was taken away from Lemieux. It hardly mattered, though, because there was no way that Gonzalez, who wasn’t even trying to run from Lemieux, was going to be able to stand and trade shots with a puncher with as much power as Lemieux for long without going down for the 10-count. Near the end of the round, Gonzalez was caught with a huge left hook from Lemieux that snapped his head back violently.

At the time, Gonzalez looked as if he wasn’t expecting to be attacked, as he wasn’t even trying to defend himself as he walked forward looking like he was under the impression the round had ended. It was a foolish mistake and almost caused him to have his head decapitated.

Gonzalez attempted to attack Lemieux at the start of the 2nd round, missing with big shots. Lemieux immediately pelted him with a big right hand that landed low and caused another warning from the referee. After the warning, Lemieux hit Gonzalez with four left hands, knocking him down with the last one, a perfectly thrown hook to the head. Gonzalez got up, looking hurt and not particularly interested in fighting. The referee then gave him a standing eight count.

He might as well have stopped the fight for there wasn’t much of a chance that Gonzalez was going to survive the round with Lemieux ready to tear into him as soon as the action was resumed. That’s exactly what happened, as Lemieux went after him, throwing nothing but left hands to the head, one after another ending with another big left hand shot that dropped Gonzalez to the canvas for the second time in the round.

It looked as if Gonzalez went to his knees voluntarily while trying to duck one of the punches. Never the less, the referee had seen enough and promptly stopped the slaughter at 1:53 of the 2nd round.



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