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Cloutier’s Canada Corner
The WBC Could
Organize A Middleweight Tournament Involving Lemieux,
Heiland, Khytrov & Stevens
By Daniel Cloutier
MONTRÉAL — The WBC championship committee could organize a
middleweight tournament in 2017 involving the first four
contenders. The winner of this tournament would face the WBC
middleweight champion of the world, Gennady Golovkin
(36-0-0), who is considered as the second or third best
fighter pound for pound in the world.
This tournament would involve the Montrealer David Lemieux
(36-3-0), the Argentinian Jorge Sebastian Heiland (28-4-2),
the Ukrainian Ievgen Khytrov (14-0-0) and the American
Curtis Stevens (29-5-0).
“If this tournament is official, we would love to organize a
bout between David and Helland", said Lemieux’s manager, the
Montrealer promoter-manager Camille Estephan. "We will see
what the WBC championship committee will decide in the next
days about this project.”
Lemieux’s promoter is the Californian Oscar De La Hoya, a
former world champion who is the owner of the Golden Boy
Promotions organization.
Sports betting tips could easily see Lemieux as a
favorite.
Golovkin will face the New Yorker Daniel Jacobs (32-1-0) in
a WBC, WBA and IBF middleweight championships of the world
March 18th at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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