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Cloutier’s Canada Corner
Pascal-Bute: Severe Penalties
If Overweight
By Daniel Cloutier
MONTRÉAL - Jean Pascal and Lucian Bute will pay severe
penalties if they don't respect the limit of the weight
mentioned in their contracts. The two popular fighters from
Montréal will fight together May 25th at Bell Centre in
Montréal. The two promoters of the event, Yvon Michel, from
de GYM Group, and Jean Bédard, from InterBox, are expecting
a sell out.
Pascal (27-2-1), a former WBC light heavyweight champion of
the world, and Bute (31-1-0), a former IBF super
middleweight champion of the world, signed a contract
indicating a limit of 175 pounds, the weight's limit for the
light heavyweight division. If one the fighter posts a
weight of 176 pounds at the weight in, he will have to give
$300,000 to the opponent. If the overweight is two pounds,
the penalty will be $500,000.
The fans of these two fighters can bet that both will work
with a specialist in nutrition in the next two months, to be
sure that the 175 pounds limit will be respected at the
moment of the weigh in.
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