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By Dean Berman: Former IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (40-4, 34 KOs) will be coming off of a 15-month layoff when he returns to the ring to face Max Bursak (34-5-2, 15 KOs) on December 7 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.  → read full story

By Dan Ambrose: The Saul Canelo Alvarez vs. Daniel Jacobs DAZN card took a big hit on Wednesday with former IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux suffering a hand injury in training and pulling out of his scheduled fight against super middleweight contender John Ryder.  → read full story

An unfortunate hand injury has forced David Lemieux (40-4, 34 KOs) to withdraw from his 168-pound debut against London’s John “The Gorilla” Ryder (27-4, 15 KOs) in what was going to be the scheduled 12-round co-main event of Canelo vs.  → read full story

By Mike Smith: David Lemieux says he’s going to use his opponent John Ryder to make a statement on May 4 next month when the two face each other for the interim World Boxing Association World super middleweight title on the undercard of Saul Canelo Alvarez vs.  → read full story

David Lemieux (40-4, 34 KOs) will make his 168-pound debut when he takes on John “The Gorilla” Ryder (27-4, 15 KOs) in the scheduled 12-round co-main event of Canelo vs.  → read full story

By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions are expected to announce the undercard soon for the May 4 Saul Canelo Alvarez vs.  → read full story

By Dan Ambrose: David Lemieux vs. John Ryder has been added to the May 4 DAZN card headlined by Saul Canelo Alvarez vs.  → read full story

By Sean Jones: Saul Canelo Alvarez has reportedly vacated his WBA ‘regular’ super middleweight title that he won on December 15th in stopping secondary WBA 168 lb champion Rocky Fielding in the third round at Madison Square Garden in New York.  → read full story

By Jeff Aranow: The promoter for former IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux, Camille Estephan, believes a fight between him and Golden Boy Promotions flagship fighter Saul Canelo Alvarez is possible for 2019 at super middleweight, according to writer Michael Woods of badlefthook.com.  → read full story

By Allan Fox: David Lemieux has pulled out of his fight against Tureano Johnson for Saturday’s Saul Canelo Alvarez vs.  → read full story