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Cloutier’s Canada Corner
Kovalev vs. Pascal Rematch To
Be
Announced For January 30 In Montreal
By Daniel Cloutier
MONTRÉAL - The InterBox Group, managed by the promoter Jean
Bédard, will confirm very soon that a rematch between the
Montrealer Jean Pascal and the Russian Sergey Kovalev will
be presented January 30th at Bell Centre in Montréal.
Apparently, Bédard and Kathy Duva, the promoter of Main
Event, finalized a deal during the week-end to organize this
rematch.
March 14th in Montréal, Kovalev (28-0-1) made a successful
first defense of his IBF, WBA and WBO light heavyweight
championship of the world, in beating Pascal (30-3-1) by TKO
in the eighth round. It was the first time that Pascal lost
before a fight’s limit.
Kovalev is ranked now among the 10 best fighters pound for
pound in the world. At his last fight, July 25th at the
Mandalay Bay hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Kovalev made a
successful second defence of his triple crown, with a win by
TKO in less than three rounds against his IBF mandatory
challenger, the French Nadjib Mohammedi (37-4-0).
Just before the Kovalev-Mohammedi bout, in Las Vegas, Pascal
got a controversial win by unanimous decision in 10 rounds
against the Cuban Yanieski Gonzalez (16-1-0).
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