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Adonis Stevenson’s trainer Emanuel Steward passes away

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Image: Adonis Stevenson's trainer Emanuel Steward passes awayBy Dam Ambrose: Super middleweight contender Adonis Stevenson (19-1, 16 KO’s) had a huge blow to his career today with the death of his famous trainer Emanuel Steward, who passed away from an undisclosed cause in a Chicago hospital. Stevenson was really close to the 68-year-old Steward and he’d learned a lot from him during the time that Steward has worked with the 35-year-old Stevenson.

What really hurts is that Steward won’t be around to see Stevenson fight for a world title in 2013, and that’s got to hurt Stevenson because he was hoping Steward would be there for him when that moment came so that the two of them could share in that moment.

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Froch may have to vacate title if IBF forces him to fight Adonis Stevenson in early 2013

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Image: Froch may have to vacate title if IBF forces him to fight Adonis Stevenson in early 2013By William Mackay: According to boxing news from the Canadian site Lapresse.ca, the International Boxing Federation (IBF) will be trying to get IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch (29-2, 21 KO’s) to face his new mandatory challenger Adonis Stevenson (19-1, 16 KO’s) in the first part of 2013.

Froch, however, already has plans of trying to fight a rematch with former IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute. Following that, Froch wants to fight Mikkel Kessler and Andre Ward in rematches, and there’s talk that Froch would then retire once he got those bouts out of the way.

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Stevenson vs. George results: Adonis wins but looks flawed

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Image: Stevenson vs. George results: Adonis wins but looks flawedBy Scott Gilfoid: Adonis Stevenson (19-1, 16 KO’s) did what pretty much any contender in the division would have done last night in stopping fringe contender Don George (23-3-1, 20 KO’s) in the 12th round at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. The victory earns the 35-year-old Stevenson the mandatory spot to fight IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch next year.

I can’t say I was impressed with what I saw of Stevenson, not in the least. Although he did knock the punching bag-like George down five times in the fight, he showed a number of weaknesses that tells me that he won’t stand a chance against Froch next year. Stevenson looked like a poor man’s Peter Quillin with his tendency to throw pretty much nothing but pot shot left hands. You could see he was trying to box by throwing jabs, and that’s probably what kept Stevenson from getting knocked out. But his jab is nothing special, his height is limited, his reach is limited, he can’t throw right hands to save his life and doesn’t look good at all when his opponent is throwing punches.

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Stevenson stops George; Lemieux destroys Gaona in 1st round TKO

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Image: Stevenson stops George; Lemieux destroys Gaona in 1st round TKOBy Jim Dower: #2 IBF Adonis Stevenson (19-1, 16 KO’s) put himself in position to get a title shot against IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch by knocking #11 IBF Don George (23-3-1, 20 KO’s) down five times en route to stopping him in the 12th round on Friday night at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada. George, 27, was in constant trouble from the 5th round on, getting knocked down twice in the 5th, once in the 6th and the final two times in the 12th before the fight was finally halted.

However, it’s still very hard to see Stevenson beating Froch, if he ever gets that fight. Froch is a lot better than George and he’d have found an answer to Stevenson’s straight left hands by nailing him with left hands and straights of his own.

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Weights: George-Stevenson, Lemieux-Gaona

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Image: Weights: George-Stevenson, Lemieux-GaonaBy Jim Dower: Adonis Stevenson (18-1, 15 KO’s) and Don George (23-2-1, 20 KO’s) successfully weighed in today for their IBF super middleweight eliminator bout on Friday night at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The 35-year-old Stevenson came in right at the super middleweight limit at 168 lbs, whereas Geroge came in a little lighter at 167.2 pounds.

Also on on the card, former middleweight contender David Lemieux (26-2, 25 KO’s) weighted in a little over the middleweight limit at 163.6 in his non-title fight scheduled for 10 rounds against Alvaro Gaona (11-1, 7 KO’s). For his part, the 27-year-old Gaona came in at 161.8 lbs.

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Stevenson vs George this Friday in Montreal

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Image: Stevenson vs George this Friday in MontrealBy Jason Kim: Adonis Stevenson (18-1, 15 KO’s) and Don George (23-2-1, 20 KO’s) will be fighting it out this Friday night in an IBF super middleweight eliminator bout from Stevenson’s home country of Montreal, Canada at the Bell Centre.

Stevenson, #2 IBF, is forced to fight #11 IBF George because none of the higher ranking contenders were interested in taking him on perhaps due to his blazing hand speed and incredible power, not to mention his southpaw stance.

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Adonis Stevenson and Don George face off in IBF 168 lb eliminator on October 12th

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Image: Adonis Stevenson and Don George face off in IBF 168 lb eliminator on October 12thBy Jason Kim: The big match-up between super middleweight contenders Adonis Stevenson (18-1, 15 KO’s) and Don George (23-2-1, 20 KO’s) is just around the corner for their IBF super middleweight title eliminator next week on October 12th at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada. Stevenson and George were supposed to have already fought, but Stevenson suffered a hand injury, causing the fight to be pushed back to October. Stevenson, 35, is now healed and ready to go for this crucial fight.

The winner of the Stevenson-George fight will be the mandatory challenger for IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch, although there’s a good chance that Froch will never face either one of these guys because he’s talking about possibly fighting only three more times and then retiring.

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Stevenson faces George, Lemieux battles Gaona on October 12th

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Image: Stevenson faces George, Lemieux battles Gaona on October 12thBy Jason Kim: next month, super middleweight contenders Adonis Stevenson (18-1, 15 KO’s) and Don George (23-2-1, 20 KO’s) will be meeting to fight in an IBF super middleweight eliminator bout at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The winner of the George-Stevenson fight will get a shot against IBF champion Carl Froch possibly next year.

Stevenson, 35, really hasn’t faced the kind of puncher that George is since getting stopped by Darnell Boone in the 2nd round in 2010. Stevenson wasn’t ready for that kind of power and folded quickly against Boone. George can punch at least as hard as Boone when he’s sitting down on his punches.

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Adonis Stevenson could be without trainer Steward for fight against Donovan George on October 12th

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By Sean McDaniel: #2 IBF Adonis Stevenson (18-1, 15 KO’s) may have to do without his trainer Emanuel Steward for his upcoming IBF 168 eliminator bout against the hard hitting Donovan George (23-2-1, 20 KO’s) on October 12th at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The winner of the Stevenson-George fight will become the mandatory challenger for IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch and will likely get a shot at Froch sometime next year if Froch is able to hold onto his title in defenses against Yusaf Mack, Lucian Bute and Mikkel Kessler.

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