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Cloutier’s Canada Corner
Alvarez vs. Oosthuizen Coming
In January
By Daniel Cloutier
MONTRÉAL - The promoter of the GYM Group, Yvon Michel, will
confirm in the next days that the Montrealer Colombian
Eleider Alvarez will face the South African Thomas
Oosthuizen January 18th at Bell Centre, just before the
presentation of the main event, which will oppose the
Montrealers light heavyweights Jean Pascal (28-2-1) and
Lucian Bute (31-1-0).
The winner of the fight Alvarez-Oosthuizen will become the
interim WBA light heavyweight champion of the world, and
will face the real WBA champion, Beibut Shumenov (13-1-0),
from Kazakhstan, before the end of 2014.
At his last bout, September 28th at Bell Centre, Alvarez
(13-0-0) beat the Colombian Edison Miranda (35-9-0) by
unanimous decision in 10 rounds. November 9th in South
Africa, Oosthuizen (22-0-2) had a lot of problems to
dominate the Argentinian Ezequil Osvaldo Maderna (20-2-0),
winning finally by majority decision of the judges.
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