QUEBEC CITY, Canada ---- The Montreal southpaw Adonis Stevenson promised to his fans to stop the British Tony Bellew… and he did it Saturday evening in the ring of the Québec City Colisée. He stopped his mandatory challenger in the sixth round, becoming the only fighter on the planet this year to win three world championship bouts in a span of six months.

With this spectacular win, Stevenson made a second successful defence of his WBC light heavyweight championship of the world. Stevenson (23-1-0) won the first round in connecting a very careful Tony Bellew (20-2-1) with three good power shots.

In the second, after two minutes of careful boxing, Stevenson created a reaction in the crowd with a solid right hand on the Bellew's chin. Bellew got a very hard time in the third round. Stevenson was chasing him constantly, and hitting him to the head with great power shots.

Stevenson hit the deck in round five but it was ruled a slip by the referee. Adonis went on to get up and do well to close out the round.

In the fifth, Stevenson wanted to show to Bellew that I got back the control of the action. He was chasing constantly the British. Stevenson, as his turn, send Bellew on the floor in the sixth round, with a terrific left punch on the head. Stevenson continue to chase Bellow and he hurt him again. At that moment, the referee stopped the fight and confirmed the Stevenson's win by TKO.

The KO has been registered à 1.56 minute of this sixth round. “Bellew insulted me in saying I was a midget in the light heavyweight, and he said I was a overrated boxer, but look what I did to him, said Stevenson. I said I would beat him by KO and I did it. My strategy was perfect. He was moving constantly in the ring to avoid my power shots, but I was chasing him constantly to send him in the ropes and hit him solidly. I went on the canvas on the fourth, but I knew I would come back and put him in serious trouble. In the sixth, I cut his space in the ring the most possible, to place my power shots, and the strategy was efficient. I knew it was just a matter of time before I knock him out.

June 8th, at Bell Centre in Montréal, Stevenson dethroned Chad Dawson (31-3-0) as WBC 175 pounds champion, in becoming the first boxer to inflict him a quick loss. Stevenson stopped him in 76 seconds. September 28th, Stevenson became the first boxer to beat the former IBF champion, Tavoris Cloud (24-2-0), by TKO. Cloud surrended at the end of the seventh round.What next for Stevenson, who won his three world championship bouts with less than… 14 rounds of action? “I am ready to fight all the big names of my division or the super middleweight division, said Stevenson. I would love to face Carl Froch (the IBF super middleweight champion of the world) and Bernard Hopkins (the IBF light heavyweight champion of the world). I will talk to my promoter (Yvon Michel) in the next days, and we will see.”
For Stevenson, it was a 13th win in a row by KO or TKO.


In the first world championship fight of the evening, televise by HBO, the Russian Sergey Kovalev destroyed the Ukrainian Ismayl Sillakh with an offensive of… only four minutes. With this quick win, Kovalev (23-0-1) made a first successful defence of his WBO light heavyweight championship of the world. In the first round, Sillakh was moving constantly in the ring to avoid the Kovalev's power shots.

But it was just a matter of time before that Kovalev cause damages. After about 15 seconds of action in the second round, Kovalev floored Sillakh with a great power shot. The Ukrainian was clearly hurt when he got back on his knees. When the action started again, Kovalev jumped on Sillakh and provoked another knockdown. It was enough for the referee Mike Griffin, who declared
Sillakh TKO.

The fight has been stopped at the 52nd seconds of the second round. “My plan was to take my time, hit Sillakh with good body shots and solid hooks to the head, said Kovalev after the bout. As you saw, I did not need a lot of punches to take him out. What can I tell you? I did my job”. For Sillakh, a former NABF champion, it was only a second defeat after 21 wins.