Canadian Boxing News
The Canadian Report
by Alex Pelletier - 10/26/2005
It’s now official: former WBC super middleweight title holder Éric Lucas (38-6-3, 14 KO) will travel to Denmark to challenge the reigning WBA champ Mikkel Kessler (36-0, 27 KO) in January. ‘Lucky Luke’ hasn’t fought a world-class opponent since getting trashed in six rounds by Danny Green in Montreal back in Dec. 2003. Since then, he has taken a one-year layoff and battled two third-raters, before injuring his right hand. Lucas hasn’t fought since winning a 12-round decision over journeyman James Crawford back in March.
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The Canadian Report
by By Alex Pelletier 9/14/2005
Junior middleweight contender Joachim Alcine improved his perfect record to 25-0 (18 KO) on Saturday afternoon, scoring an 8th round stoppage of Marco Antonio Avendaño (20-5, 13 KO) in Montreal. Alcine picked his spots from the beginning, remaining tight defensively, with memories of hitting the canvas in his last fight perhaps still in his mind.
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