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Cloutier’s Canada Corner
Lafrenière Knows What To Do
To Beat Orlando Vazquez
By Daniel Cloutier
SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Québec, Canada - The middleweight
Francis Lafrenière, from Côteau-du-Lac in the West Island of
Montréal, will be involved in the main event of the boxing
show presented by the promoter Yvon Michel, from the GYM
Group, Saturday evening at the Isabelle-Brasseur Arena in
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, a Montréal suburb on the south
side. Lafrenière (17-7-2) will face the Mexican Orlando
Vazquez (10-5-0) in an eight rounds bout.
“I saw Vazquez in action a couple of times on videos, then,
I know what I have to do to win the fight,” said Lafrenière
Friday afternoon at the weigh in held at the Dooly’s Bar in
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. “Vazquez is pretty good
offensively and defensively, but I really think that I have
the speed and the technique to dominate the action.”
When we asked him what is his goal for the years to come,
Lafrenière smiled. “My goal ? Stay in good health and in a
perfect physical condition, said Lafrenière. We will see
what I will achieve this year and next year.” Lafrenière is
32 years old.
Lafrenière was trained by Howard and Otis Grant at the
Monster GYM in the West Island of Montréal for the last nine
years, but know, his trainer his Stéphane Larouche.
Larouche said: “Francis is extremely determinate, he works
extremely hard in training, he is very motivate fight after
fight, then, we can expect a solid performance from his part
in few hours. And Francis is strong physically and he has a
solid jaw. I really believe you will see him in action
against fighters ranked in the world in the years to come.”
At the weigh in supervised by the Québec Athletic Commission
(Régie provinciale des sports de combat), Lafrenière posted
an official weight of 161.4 pounds, versus 163.2 for
Vazquez.
The super middleweight Jean-Michel Bolivar (6-2-0), from
Pointe-Calumet, Québec, the Montrealer middleweight
Francesco Cotroni (12-10-1), the Montrealer super
middleweight Manuel Garcia (16-15-2), the super lightweight
Louis Jourdain, from the Montréal South Shore, the
cruiserweight Yan Pellerin (6-1-0), from East suburb of
Montréal, and the Montrealer middleweight Kevin Menoche
(2-0-0) will be involved in the preliminaries bouts of the
evening.
Bolivar will fight the Montrealer Jan Michael Poulin
(5-1-2), Cotroni will face the Mexican Luis Enrique
Montelongo (9-7-0), Garcia will challenge the African Mponda
Kalunga (4-2-0), who is living in Toronto, Jourdain will be
opposed to the Mexican Tomas Rentaria (2-2-1), Pellerin will
fight the Mexican Juan Santiago Colchado (6-4-1), and
Menoche will face the Mexican Marco Antonio Cruz Gonzalez
(2-1-1).
At the weigh in, Bolivar posted an official weight of 164.4
pounds, Poulin 161.8, Cotroni 159, Montelongo 159, Jourdain
1387.8, Renteria 138.6, Pellerin 188.8, Colchado 189,
Menoche 163.4 and finally, Gonzalez 161.8 pounds.
This boxing show is presented by the promoter Yvon Michel,
the big boss of the GYM Group in Montréal.
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