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Cloutier’s Canada Corner
Alvarez & Pascal In
Action In USA
By Daniel Cloutier
MONTRÉAL - The Montrealers Eleider Alvarez and Jean Pascal,
two light heavyweights (175 pounds), will be in action in
USA in the next weeks. WBA interim champion of the world,
Pascal (34-6-1) will fight the WBC seventh contender, the
Swedish American Badou Jack (22-2-3), December 28th at the
State Farm Arena in Atlanta, and Alvarez (24-1-0) will face
Michael Seals (24-2-0), from Mobile, Alabama, at the Turning
Stone Casino in Verona New York, January 18th.
At his last bout, Pascal caused a huge surprise last August
3rd in beating the New Yorker Marcus Browne (23-1-0) by
technical decision at the Brooklyn Arena. Pascal provoked
two knockdowns, but the fight has been stopped in the eighth
round because an accidental head butt. The three judges
scored the fight 75-74 for the Montrealer, who became the
first fighter to inflict a defeat to Browne.
Former WBC light heavyweight champion of the world, Pascal,
a fighter of 37 years old, hopes to compete in a WBA world
title in 2020.
Badou Jack fought the Montrealer southpaw Adonis Stevenson
in May 2018 in Toronto, but Stevenson (29-2-1) kept his WBC
light heavyweight champion of the world that night, because
the fight finished by a draw.
However, Stevenson took his retirement in December the same
year, after his lost by KO in the 11th round against the
Russian Oleksandr Gvozdyk (17-1-0) at the Québec City
Videotron Arena. About 30 minutes after the fight, Stevenson
failed in a coma and he been transported by ambulance to the
hospital Enfant-Jesus in Québec City. After few months,
Stevenson got his release from the hospital. he can speak
and walk now, but he will have permanent damage to the
brain, then, the doctors told him that his boxing career is
over.
On his side, Alvarez became WBO light heavyweight champion
of the world last August 4th at the Hard Rock Hotel-Casino
in Atlantic City, in beating Kovalev by KO in the eight
round. However, Kovalev took his revenge and took back his
WBO 175 pounds world title February 2nd at the Frisco Ford
Center in Texas, in beating Alvarez by unanimous decision in
12 rounds.
Ranked ninth contender by the WBC, Elder Alvarez, a
Colombian living in Montreal since 2009, hopes to move up in
the ratings in 2020 to get eventually another shot for a
world title.
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