By Jim Dower: Undefeated #1 WBC Eleider Alvarez (23-0, 11 KOs) kept his number 1 mandatory spot with the World Boxing Council at light heavyweight a 12 round majority decision win over Jean Pascal (31-5-1, 18 KOs) on Saturday night in the co-feature bout on the undercard of the Adonis Stevenson vs. Andrzej Fonfara fight card at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.
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Adonis Stevenson vs. Andrzej Fonfara II – Official weights
By Jim Dower: Adonis Stevenson (28-1, 23 KOs) and challenger Andrzej Fonfara (29-4, 17 KOs) both weighed in successfully for their light heavyweight clash this Saturday night on Showtime Championship Boxing at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. Stevenson, 39, weighed in at 173.5 pounds. He’ll be defending his World Boxing Council light 175 lb. title. Up until Friday, Stevenson and Fonfara had seemed like old friends than two fighters about to face each in the ring. There was no animosity between them at all until today.
Sullivan Barrera wants Jean Pascal fight
By Jeff Aranow: #4 WBA, #9 IBF, #12 WBC light heavyweight contender Sullivan Barrera (18-1, 13 KOs) is targeting a fight against former WBC 175lb champion Jean Pascal (31-4-1, 18 KOs) next, as he believes that a win over the 34-year-old Canadian will get him a shot at the winner of the Andre Ward vs. Sergey Kovalev fight.
It’s interesting Barrera isn’t calling out unbeaten #2 IBF contender Artur Beterbiev (11-0, 11 KOs) for a fight, because that would be a fight that would make a lot more sense for Barrera to be taking if he wants a title shot against the Ward-Kovalev winner.
Barrera taunts Pascal “Did my KO of Shabranskyy scare you?”
Fresh off of his crushing 7th round knockout of the previously unbeaten Vyacheslav Shabranskyy, top rated light heavyweight contender Sullivan “Sully B” Barrera has his next victim in mind.
The former amateur standout from Cuba wants to avenge his countryman Yunieski Gonzalez’s defeat to Jean Pascal. Shabranskyy is the only other fighter to defeat his compatriot.
Jean Pascal vs. Ricardo Ramallo – Results
By Jeff Aranow: Former WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (31-4-1, 18 KOs) emerged from a 11-month layoff to stop 33-year-old Argentinian journeyman Ricardo Marcelo Ramallo (21-10-1, 15 KOs) in the 3rd round on Friday night in a scheduled 10 round fight at the Cabaret Amphitheatre Cogeco in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada.
Jean Pascal vs. Stjepan Bozic on December 16
By Eric Baldwin: Former WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (30-4-1, 17 KOs) will be looking to turn his career around on December 16 when he faces 42-year-old journeyman Stjepan Bozic (29-11, 19 KOs) at the Cabaret Amphitheatre Cogeco Trois-Rivieres, in Quebec, Canada. Pascal really needs a win right now, as he’s lost two out of his last three fights since 2015.
You can argue that Pascal has lost his last three fights, because his only win in the last two years was a very controversial one against Yunieski Gonzlez in July of 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pascal beat the Cuban Gonzalez by a 10 round unanimous decision by the scores of 96-94, 96-94 and 96-94. However, a lot of boxing fans that saw that fight had Gonzalez winning handily.
The judges had their reasons for giving Pascal the win, but a lot of fans disagreed with the judges. Gonzalez was taking the fight to Pascal for the entire 10 round fight and was hammering him with heavy head shots.
Joe Smith Jr. vs. Jean Pascal in the works
By Patrick McHugh: Joe Smith Jr. and Jean Pascal could be facing each other in the fall of this year, according to RingTV. a fight between the two highly ranked contenders is in the works, says Smith Jr’s promoter Joe DeGuardia. Smith Jr. (22-1, 18 KOs), ranked #2 with the World Boxing Council at light heavyweight, is coming off of a career best 1st round knockout victory over the highly ranked former world title challenger Andrzej Fonfara last June at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois.
For his part, the 33-year-old Pascal has seen better days in his boxing career, as he’s lost two out of his last three fights in two stoppage losses to IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev. It probably wasn’t the smartest move that Pascal (30-4-1, 17 KOs) could make in choosing to fight Kovalev in a rematch last January, because he was stopped in the 7th round of a one-sided fight.
Sullivan Barrera to Pascal “Keep your word, fight me next!”
Former Cuban amateur standout Sullivan Barrera (17-1 12 KOs) is training hard with new trainer Derik Santos. The Florida-based duo have gelled and can’t wait to show off the new and improved Barrera in the very near future.
When special plans go wrong
By Yannis Mihanos: Special plans can make a difference in a fight and even turn somebody into legend. Nevertheless, in life, there are always two sides of the coin and boxing could not be an exception. Things can happen in reverse too. Prior to the rematch against Sergey Kovalev, former WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal made claims that he and his coach Freddie Roach were preparing something special, something that their opponent didn’t expect.
Some serious expectation was built prior to the fight but in the end all it took was a few seconds for Pascal to realize that it ain’t gonna happen. Not now, not in this lifetime. All it took was one punch in the face to realize that no special plan can work against this kind of power and opponent.
Kovalev-Pascal 2 averaged 1.179M viewers on HBO
By Dan Ambrose: Last Saturday night’s rematch between IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (29-0-1, 26 KOs) and 33-year-old Jean Pascal (30-4-1, 17 KOs) averaged 1.179 million viewers on HBO Championship Boxing with a peak of 1.269 million with their fight at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.
Kovalev easily stopped Pascal in the 7th round. The fight was not competitive at all, and nothing like the first fight between them. It was so one-sided that it was boring to watch.