Labeled the next coming and undefeated, David Lemieux found out it wouldn’t be a cakewalk to a world championship as veteran Marco Antonio Rubio scored a shocking come from behind seventh round stoppage in front of a stunned crowd at the Bell Centre in Montreal in a Middleweight title elimination bout.
Lemieux dominated the first five plus rounds with the first round being a typical Lemieux type of fight as he landed thudding punches that had Rubio against the ropes. Lemieux continued to land hard shots against Rubio who seemed to be waiting to take Lemieux into the late rounds.
In round six, Rubio got into the fight and landed a nice right hand that buckled the hometown favorite. Rubio finished up the round the round strong as he continued to pressure Lemieux.
Rubio wasn’t capitalizing early in round seven and allowed to get his legs back until Rubio landed a huge right that knocked Lemieux slumped into the corner which was was ruled a knockdown. Rubio kept up the presure and landed a barrage of punches which coerced Lemieux’s cornerman Russ Anber to wave the white towel at 2:36 of round seven.
Rubio, 160 lbs of Mexico will now face the winner of the June 4th fight between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Sebastian Zbik and now has a record of of 50-5-1 with forty-four knockouts. Lemieux, 160 lbs of Montreal is now 25-1.
After nearly a year off, Adonis Stevenson took out Derek Edwards in round three of a scheduled ten round Super Middleweight bout.
Stevenson dropped Edwards twice in round two with left hands. The second coming from a vicious left for which Stevenson got full extension that bloodied and possibly broke the nose of Edwards.
In round three, Stevenson landed another vicious left that sent Edwards down and out at 1:48 of round three.
Stevenson, 166 lbs of Montreal is now 14-1 with eleven knockouts. Edwards, 167 lbs of Winston-Salem, NC is now 25-2.
Elider Alvarez wiped out Ernesto Zamora in round three in a scheduled four round Cruiserweight bout.
Alvarez dropped Zamora three times in the third round with booming rights and the final came on a hard combination at
Alvarez, 195 lbs of Montreal via Colombia is now 4-0 with three knockouts. Zamora is now 10-19-1
