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Cloutier’s Canada Corner
Alvarez, Beterbiev & Pascal
Ranked
Third, Fourth & Fifth By The WBC
By Daniel Cloutier
MONTRÉAL - Three Montrealers are ranked in the Top five of
the new ratings of the WBC in the light heavyweight
division.
Eleider Alvarez (17-0-0) is ranked third, Pascal (29-3-1)
fourth and Beterbiev (9-0-0) fifth contender.
The WBC 175 pounds world champion is another Montrealer, the
southpaw Adonis Stevenson (26-1-0).
Alvarez, a Colombian, will be in action August 15th at Bell
Centre. He will fight just before the main event involving
the Montrealer Romanian Lucian Bute (31-2-0).
The names of their next opponents will be known very soon.
Pascal will face the Cuban Yunieski Gonzalez (16-0-0) in a
10 rounds bout July 25th in the ring of the Mandalay Bay
Arena in Las Vegas, just before the presentation of the WBA,
WBO and IBF light heavyweight championship of the world
opposing the Russian Sergey Kovalev (27-0-1) and the French
Nadjib Mohammedi (37-3-0).
At his previous fight, Kovalev kept his triple world titles
at Bell Centre in Montréal, in beating Pascal by TKO in the
eighth round.
Beterbiev, the amateur 2009 world champion, is the only
boxer ranked so high with only nine pro bouts of experience.
Alvarez, Pascal and Beterbiev hope all to be involved in
world championships fights in 2016.
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