Pascal Defeats Diaconu, Wins WBC Light Heavyweight Crown
June 20th, 2009
By Jim Dower: Making his first fight at light heavyweight, Jean Pascal (23-1, 15 KO’s) dominated World Boxing Council (WBC) light heavyweight champion Adrian Diaconu (26-1, 15 KO’s) on Friday night, handing Diaconu his first loss of his career at the bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada. Pascal, 26, knocked Diaconu down with a huge left hook in the 5th round. Later in the same round, Pascal was stunned by a big looping right hand from Diaconu that had Pascal holding on for the remainder of the round. Both fighters traded big shots for most of the fight as they traded rounds fairly regularly.
Pascal looked superb in the 1st rounds, hitting Diaconu with blinding shots and getting the better of him in most of the exchanges. Pascal would come quickly inside and land fast right hands to the head and body and then jump back outside before Diaconu could retaliate with his own big shots. Pascal landed well to the body, and was hit very little in the first two rounds.
Indeed, at this point in the fight it looked as if it was going to be a huge mismatch, because Diaconu was just unable to cope with Pascal’s much faster hands and unable to hit him with anything big. However, in the 3rd round Pascal suddenly began to look a little winded, and stopped punching for the most part.
This allowed Diaconu to take control over the round and land some hard hooks. Diaconu made the mistake of grabbing Pascal’s left arm at one point late in the round and got drilled immediately by three big right hands from Pascal’s free hand. Unfortunately for Diaconu, it was a lesson that he failed to learn, because later on in the fight he made the same mistake an almost got knocked down for his troubles.
Pascal looked superb in the 4th and 5th rounds, using his fast hands to get in close with some hard shots to the body and head before Diaconu could respond with punches of his own. Again, Diaconu grabbed Pascal’s left arm and tried to keep him from punching and was nailed with several hard right hands and almost knocked down.
At the start of the 5th round, Diaconu landed a long left hook to the head of Pascal, who immediately fired back a left hook that knocked Diaconu stumbling backwards to the canvas. He wasn’t hurt, but rather off balance at the time that the left hook hit him.
However, Pascal went after him as if he thought he was hurt and unloaded a blizzard of punches to the head. None of them had any effect on Diaconu and near the end of the round he fired back with a big clubbing right hand that hurt Pascal and had him holding on for the remainder of the round.
In rounds six through eight, Pascal controlled the action with his better work rate and his faster hands. The rounds were close, but it was clear that Pascal did just enough to win them by his flashy two and three punch combinations.
Diaconu came back in the 9th and 11th rounds, landing some massive shots. At the end of the 11th, Diaconu appeared to hurt Pascal with a big looping right hand. However, Pascal continued fighting hard until the end of the round and showed no ill effects from the punch.
In the 12th round, both fighters traded big shots until the bell. Pascal got the better of the action with his fast hands and was able to avoid many of Diaconu’s punches.
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That would be ‘Ireland’…
Wickerman08, you sir are a cretin…
Ward, I’m pretty sure Rogan is from Belfast, Northern Island, which makes him British.
Simon, you’re obviously a cretin.
The yanks start it Wayne Lord, they seem to think that the Klitsckos, Pacquiuo, cotto and many more are their fighters when up against a brit
To be honest, both men fight out of Canada but were born in Haiti and Romania respectively. And that is basically my earlier point. Canada, the US, even S. America, Australia and the Caribbean, have many transplanted people. Either recently or from many years ago. We seem to make such a big fuss about nationality etc.
There were so many tribal wars in Europe, Asia & S. America before European came. The Europeans came, divided and conquered. Instilled their cultures and began a new life. Today in most cases the cultures of the new wolrd are mostly transplanted but also mixed.
From out of many evolved a few dominant cultures. The natives are the only true people of the new land but they are often forgotten and belittled. Before we write racist and nationalistic tripe we must remember that is how wars started.
By all means have pride in your old & new country but do them proud. Preserve your old heritage but respect others and create a great new country.
We lost too many good people over meaningless and stupid wars. Let us enjoy good boxing regardless of where the boxers are from or where they now fight. If they are terrible, is it because of poor ability? Lousy training? Lack of discipline or something else? Then say so.
Do not go after the man’s family or his country. I know some people so this teasing, in fun but some people do it out of genuine rage and hatred. Peace and chill out people! have a great day and enjoy the articles!
Pascal would beat Dawson and guess what, he’s Canadian!
Dawson may not sell tickets but can beat any1 in the world around his weight diviosn , including joe calzahe, fat bum! USA would woop your perthetic country , i remember you saying people like martin rogan could become heavyweight champion , stupid fuers, people like arrelo , carl thompson and travis walker are the future of heavyweight diviosn, USA USA USA USA USA !!!
hey we simon, pascal is canadian not american, check this out, hopkins got beat by calzaghe, pavlik will get beat by froch, berto is being protected, floyd is great no doubt and chad almost got beat by an aged glen johnson
chad dawson- a nobody who can’t even sell a 2000 seater stadium and has problems fighting live bodies.
floyd mayweather jr- a very good fighter i’ll grant you, but seems unable to grow a set and fight top welter-weights.
bernard hopkins- another good fighter, but very old, dull, a spoiler and a cheating racist.
pavlik- a one-dimensional fighter with little class or skill. a decent champion in a very weak division who won’t fight the best for some reason.
berto- lmao i’m not even going to bother
ok simon shows how clever you are that you just have to randomly insult people to make yourself feel big. None of the british people on here have to go down to your pathetic level and insult an entire country. Then again shows how much of a clown you really are. FYI i really like watching american fighters you just can’t take the fact that your no longer the top dogs.
good write-up, but only one gripe though, wasn’t this pascals second fight a light-heavy? not his first? doesn’t really matter though, pascal fought very well and was great entertainment. hope he now goes and unify’s the rest of the divison as he certainly has the tools to do so.
btw, simon i would stop with the racist comments before you make yourself look even more of a complete tit.
simon u scum u name me me any viable champs in the us all u got r guys rollin around in a cage (mma) boxing is dead in the us face it
shut up mike you gorm , froch is loser and jermain taylor schooled him, yu brits no nothing about boxing and never will , just like chumps like calzaghe who fights no1, hatton who fights no1 and then wen he fights sum1 gets ko staright, haye is a fraud and cant wait to see him get knocked out , and what about that enzo or w/e his name you say he is good then he gets ko , get a real champion
Wow froch’s victory over pascal looks a lot better now! Well done pascal for winning the title you earned the british fans respect on that night =)
God, im on the Froch bandwagon tonight, but this further highlights how good his win was against Pascal!!