By Jim Dower: #4 IBF David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) knocked #1 IBF Hassan N’Dam (31-2, 18 KOs) down four times en route to winning a 12 round unanimous decision to captured the vacant IBF middleweight title on Saturday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.
The final judges’ scores were 115-109, 115-109, and 114-110. N’Dam hit the deck in the 2nd, two times in the 5th, and a final time in the 7th. However, Lemieux gassed out in the 2nd half of the fight, and this enabled N’Dam to come on and win many of the later rounds.