By Dan Ambrose: 30-year-old Mexican Marco Antonio Rubio (49-5-1, 42 KO’s) faces unbeaten Canadian knockout artist David Lemieux (25-0, 24 KO’s) this Friday night in a WBC middleweight eliminator bout at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada.
Lemieux, 22, has the speed, power, youth and hometown advantage in this fight. However, Rubio has excellent power of his own and could make this an interesting fight if he’s able to get his offense in gear early enough in the fight to keep Lemieux honest.
By Dimitriy Tarakan: Unbeaten middleweight contender David Lemieux (25-0, 24 KO’s) mixes it up with the hard hitting Mexican Marco Antonio Rubio (49-5-1, 42 KO’s) on Friday night in a WBC middleweight eliminator bout at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.
By Jim Dower: Unbeaten but still untested middleweight contender David Lemieux (25-0, 24 KO’s) will be getting his first real challenge of his young four-year pro career against contender Marco Antonio Rubio (49-5-1, 42 KO’s) in a WBC middleweight title eliminator bout on April 8th at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.
By Jason Kim: Middleweight knockout artist David Lemieux (25-0, 24 KO’s) faces Marco Antonio Rubio (49-5-1, 42 KO’s) on April 8th in a WBC middleweight title eliminator bout at the Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The winner of the Lemieux-Rubio fight will be the official challenger for the winner of the June 4th bout between WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
By Michael Lieberman: Unbeaten middleweight contender David Lemieux (25-0, 24 KO’s) faces Mexican Marco Antonio Rubio (49-5-1, 42 KO’s) on April 8th in a WBC middleweight title eliminator bout at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada. The winner of this fight will become the mandatory challenger for the winner of the June 4th fight between WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik and challenger Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
By Jim Dower: The hard hitting unbeaten middleweight contender David Lemieux (25-0, 24 KO’s) takes on number #3 ranked WBC contender Marco Antonio Rubio (49-5-1, 42 KO’s) on April 8th in a WBC middleweight title eliminator bout at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada.
By Dan Ambrose: Number #2 ranked World Boxing Council (WBC) middleweight contender David Lemieux (25-0, 24 KO’s) will be facing #3 ranked Marco Antonio Rubio (49-5-1, 42 KO’s) in a WBC middleweight title eliminator bout on April 8th at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada. Lemieux, 22, figures to win this fight by knockout, as the 30-year-old Rubio doesn’t have the power or the defense to keep Lemieux off for long.
By Jim Dower: Unbeaten middleweight contender David Lemieux (25-0, 24 KO’s) will be fighting the hard hitting Mexican contender Marco Antonio Rubio (48-5-1, 41 KO’s in early 2011 in a WBC middleweight eliminator bout. The winner of this fight will be on course to fight World Boxing Council middleweight title holder Sergio Martinez later on in the year. Rubio, 30, has a lot of experience and will be a tough test for Lemieux. Robio has beaten quality fighters like Jose Luis Zertuche, Rigberto Alvarez, Jose Miguel Berrio, Enrique Ornelas and Alfredo Cuevas.
By Matt Stein: Having been out of action for more than a year because of problems with his promotional company, World Boxing Association middleweight champion Felix Sturm (33-2-1, 14 KO’s) will finally be returning to action on September 4th against number #4 WBC ranked middleweight contender Marco Antonio Rubio (47-5-1, 40 KO’s), according to fightnews.com.
By Dave Lahr: I’m still trying to figure out what either Miguel Cotto and Kelly Pavlik accomplished this past weekend in beating the poor opposition that they were put in with. 10 years ago, names like Marco Antonio Rubio and Michael Jennings would have never been in the position to challenge for a title against quality fighters like Pavlik and Cotto, yet this weekend we had to suffer through both of these bouts which ended in one-sided knockouts.