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Cloutier’s Canada Corner
A Junior World Championship For
Steven Butler
By Daniel Cloutier
MONTRÉAL - The promoter of the Eye Of The Tiger Management
Group, the Montrealer businessman Camille Estefan confirmed
that his fighter Steven Butler will be involved in an IBF
Junior super welterweight World championship bout March 12th
at the Olympia Theatre, just before the main event, opposing
the middleweights David Lemieux (34-3-0), from Montréal, and
James De La Rosa (23-3-0), from Texas. The Junior World
championship bouts in pro boxing, are reserved to the
fighters of 21 years old or less. Butler is 20 years old.
Butler (14-0-1) will face the Bosnian Sladjan Janjanin
(13-0-0) for this Junior 154 pounds World championship bout.
Last Saturday at Bell Centre, before the fights
Kovalev-Pascal and Mikaylenko-Mayfield, Butler became the
first fighter to beat Antonio Hoffman (13-1-0), from Angola.
Butler won by unanimous decision in eight rounds.
“We are extremely proud to confirm that Steven will be
involved in a Junior World championship fight, said Estephan.
The president of the IBF, Lindsay Tucker, called me to tell
he was really impressed by the Steven’s performance last
Saturday at Bell Centre, and added that Steven has been
chosen to take part to a Junior World championship fight. If
Steven win this Junior championship, his name will appear
soon in the «Top 15» or «To 10» of the international pro
boxing ratings.”
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