Lemieux vs. Swierzbinski on June 8th in Montreal, Canada

By Boxing News - 05/26/2013 - Comments

lemieux4554By Allan Fox: Middleweight David Lemieux (28-2, 27 KO’s) will be fighting next month on June 8th against Poland’s Robert Swierzbinski (11-1, 3 KO’s) in a scheduled 8 round bout on the Chad Dawson vs. Adonis Stevenson undercard at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada.

Lemieux, 24, is trying to get his career back in order after having suffered losses to Marco Antonio Rubio and Joachim Alcine when he attempted to step up a level from the weak opposition he’d been facing. Lemieux has won three straight fights since losing to Alcine in December of 2011.

He’s beaten Albert Ayrapetyan, Alvaro Gaona, and Jaudiel Zepeda and seemingly turned his career around. It’s still too early to tell whether Lemieux can claw his way back to the upper tier of the middleweight division, but he’s been looking very good of late in destroying in his last three opponents in 2 rounds or less.

Swierzbinski, 31, has never faced anyone as good as Lemieux and he’s coming off of a lopsided 8 round unanimous decision loss to Maciej Sulecki last February.

There are no recognizable names on Swierzbinski’s resume to prepare him for an opponent with the kind of power that Lemieux has and it seems pretty clear that he’s going to be out of his element next month when he faces the powerful Canadian puncher.

It’s unclear what Lemieux’s promoters are waiting for as far as putting him in with better opposition. It doesn’t look like he’s learning a lot from the guys that his promoter is putting him in with because he’s destroying them so quickly. Lemieux’s problems in his losses to Rubio and Alcine stemmed from his stamina.

Lemieux ran out of gas in both fights by the midpoint of the fight, and that obviously was caused by Lemieux having had so few of his fights extend by 2 or 3 rounds. Lemieux doesn’t believe in keeping his lower level opponents around so that he build up his stamina, and so he’s not getting much from the fights.

When Lemieux eventually does face an opponent that can make it past the 6th round he might end up tiring and gassing out again.



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