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Cloutier’s Canada Corner
Pascal Should Fight In August
By Daniel Cloutier
MONTRÉAL - The former WBC light heavyweight champion of the
world, Jean Pascal, was mad and frustrated when he has been
informed that his fight with Lucian Bute was postponed to
the end of the year or the beginning of next year.Two weeks
ago, Pascal (27-2-1) and Bute (31-1-0), two Montrealers,
were working like hell in preparation of their fight
scheduled for May 25th at Bell Centre in Montréal. Pascal
was training in Las Vegas, Bute in Miami. May 7th, Bute
stopped his training because serious pain in the left hand.
Three days after, Bute, the former IBF super middleweight of
the world, got a surgery to take out bone's fragments. Bute
should restart his training at the end of the summer.
Tuesday, Pascal met his promoter, Yvon Michel, at the GYM
Group head office, to discuss the possibility to fight this
summer. Pascal knows now he will face Bute December 7th or
January 25th (soon, HBO should pick one to these two dates).
He does not want to stay inactive to that time. “There is a
very good possibility that Jean could fight in August,” said
Yvon Michel. I should be able to confirm something in the
next weeks.”
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