Lemieux vs. N’Dam

By Dan Ambrose: On June 20th, #1 IBF Hassan N’Dam (31-1, 18 KOs) and #4 IBF David Lemieux (33-2, 31 KOs) will battle it out for Jermain Taylor’s vacant International Boxing Federation 160 pound title at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.

The fight is official as of today. Lemieux, 26, will have an advantage in that the fight will be taking place in his own hometown of Montreal. The Lemieux-N’Dam fight will likely be televised on HBO.

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By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions won Tuesday’s purse bid for the Hassan N’Dam (31-1, 18 KOs) vs. David Lemieux (33-2, 31 KOs) fight. Golden Boy put in the winning bid of $102,000, which just happened to be the only bid that took place at the International Boxing Federation headquarters, according to Fight News.

Lemieux and N’Dam will be fighting for the vacant IBF middleweight title that was previously held by Jermain Taylor. The purse for the Lemieux-N’Dam will be split in half for each fighter to get 50 percent.

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By Dan Ambrose: #1 IBF middleweight contender Hassan N’Dam (31-1, 18 KOs) and #4 IBF David Lemieux (33-2, 31 KOs) will be fighting for the vacant IBF middleweight title at a still to be determined date. The two fighters’ management are currently trying to negotiate the fight.

If they can’t do it then the fight will go to a purse bid on April 7th in Springfield, New Jersey, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN. This is the IBF title that the International Boxing Federation recently stripped from Jermain Taylor last February due to him being unable to defend the title because of legal issues.

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By Sarkis Aghbashian: There are talks about David Lemieux (33-2-31 KO’s), ranked #5 by IBF and #2 by WBC, facing the French Cameroonian #1 IBF Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam (31-1-18 KO’s) for the vacant middleweight IBF title. The title belonged to Jermain Taylor (33-4-1-20 KO’s) who got in trouble with the law and had to vacate his belt.

The fight between Lemieux and Hassan is still not an official done deal, but I think it will happen in May or beginning of June 2015. The fight will happen in Montreal at the Centre Bell and not in the U.S. Even though Lemieux got the U.S public’s interest after defeating the brave Gabriel Rosado by a 10th round TKO in New York on HBO. N’Dam is no big name in the states and Lemieux is the superstar in Montreal. Golden Boy, with whom Lemieux signed, will push the fight to be in Montreal because it will be a sold out show and will generate big numbers on HBO.

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By Frank Boileau: After Felix Sturm and Billy Joe Saunders both declined to fight N’Dam for the vacant IBF belt, David Lemieux announced earlier today that he’s gonna take the fight.

Lemieux (33-2, 31 KO) won his last 8 fights after losing twice in 2011 Joachim to Alcine and Marco Antonio Rubio. N’Dam N’jikam (31-1, 18 KO) became the International Boxing ederation number 1 contender when he beat Curtis Stevens last October. His only defeat was an unanimous decision against Peter Quillin, after he went down 6 times.

Camille Estephan, Eye Of The Tigre Promotion president told RDS (French Canadian sports media) that he was trying to get Lemieux to fight either Canelo Alvarez, Miguel Cotto or Gennady Golovkin. Since he couldn’t make any of these fight happen for the moment, the opportunity to fight for the IBF vacant belt was too good to pass.

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By Dan Ambrose: #5 IBF David Lemieux (33-2, 31 KOs) has reportedly agreed to fight #1 IBF Hassan N’Dam (33-1, 18 KOs) for the vacant IBF middleweight title, according to lapresse.ca.

Lemieux’s decision to face N’Dam for the IBF title comes after both Billy Joe Saunders and Felix Sturm both turned the fight down for various reasons. Sturm decided he didn’t want to fight N’Dam due to a better paying bout against WBO super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham of Germany being out there for him on the horizon.

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