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Cloutier’s Canada Corner
Crucial Bout For MBilli
By Daniel Cloutier
MONTRÉAL - The WBC super welterweight (154 pounds) Americas
Continental champion, the Montrealer Christian MBilli
(22-0-0), will face the American Vaughn Alexander (17-6-1)
December 17th at Exposition Parc in Nantes, France. Mbilli
is ranked second contender by the WBC in the super
welterweight division.
Mbilli won 20 bouts by KO our TKO. Alexander is from
Saint-Louis, Missouri.
“I worked hard to obtain this important fight for MBilli,”
said the promoter Camille Estephan, the leader of The Eye of
The Tiger Management group. “MBilli has the ambition to
dispute a world championship, then, if he wins this
important bout, he will be closer than ever to his ambition.
I know that MBilli has great ambitions.”
The WBC champion of the world is the Mexican Saul Canelo
Alvarez (58-2-2), who won 39 fights by KO or TKO. At his
last bout, Alvarez won by unanimous decision against Gennady
Golovkin (42-2-1), a fighter from Kazakistan who lives in
Los Angeles.
“I want to thank the promoter Camille Estephan to give this
great opportiniuty to Vaugh,” said the promoter Gino Lineri,
the leader of the Bulldog Boxing Promotions Group. “I am
positive that Vaugh gonna win this bout and face after Saul
Cenlo Alvarez. It will be a crucial moment in pro boxing.”
Just before the main event, the fight MBilli-Alexander, the
welterweight Souleymane Cissokho (15-0-0), a fighter from
Senegal who is living in France, will fight the South
African Thulani Mbenge (19-1-0), for the WBC Silver
welterweight championship.
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