A bad year for middleweight contender David Lemieux (25-2, 24KOs) On Saturday in Montreal he suffered his second defeat in a row. After getting knocked by Marco Antonio Rubio in April, Lemieux lost a twelve round split decision to Joachim Alcine on Saturday. Promoter Yvon Michel is planning to bring Lemieux back in either February or March of 2012. Regarding Alcine, Michel and promoter Lou DiBella are going to co-promote the boxer with a 50/50 split read more ...

The middleweight champion of the World Boxing Council (WBC), Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., is being pushed to defend his title against the mandatory challenger Sergio Martinez - or in the alternative he must vacate the belt. A few months ago, WBC president Jose Sulaiman gave Chavez permission to make a voluntary defense against Peter Manfredo Jr read more ...

On April 8 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, middleweight David Lemieux (25-1-0) suffered his first defeat when his corner called for the abandonment of his fight, at 2:36 of the 7th round, when he was completely overwhelmed by his rival — Mexico’s Marco Antonio Rubio (50-5-1) read more ...

At the halfway point of the first round, Lemieux exploded and let his hands go. He stunned Rubio and pounded on him until the bell. Rubio spent the next four rounds blocking and throwing a lazy jab. Lemieux was throwing every punch with knockout intentions. In the sixth, Rubio came alive and started landing big shots of his own, opened up Lemieux’s nose and had the unbeaten boxer backing up read more ...

David Lemieux 159.6 vs. Marco Antonio Rubio 159.15** (WBC middleweight title eliminator) Adonis Stevenson 166.6 vs. Derek Edwards 167.13 Arash Usmanee 133.14 vs. AldoValtierra 133.15 Ahmad Cheikho 153.10 vs.Attila Molnar 153.6 Oscar Rivas 230.13 vs. Wilfrido Leal 260.15 read more ...

It’s official. 22-year-old knockout artist David Lemieux (25-0, 24 KOs), currently ranked #2 in the world by the WBC will face his toughest test to date on April 8th under the shining lights of Montreal’s Bell Centre as he takes on against 30-year-old Mexican slugger and WBC #3 ranked contender Marco Antonio Rubio (49-5-1, 42 KOs) for a chance at becoming the mandatory challenger to the WBC world title read more ...

If most two handed fighters can’t make it out of the second round with middleweight knockout sensation David Lemieux, what chance does a one-handed fighter have? The answer: hardly any. Lemieux disposed of Purnell Gates (18-2 13KO) with the Michigan fighter’s corner throwing in the towel after two knockdowns in the second round on Friday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal read more ...

Rising unbeaten middleweight star David Lemieux 24-0, 23 KOs) demolished Hector Camacho Jr. 52-4-1, 28 KOs) in the first round on Friday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Camacho was wobbled with a right hand, then laid out for the count at the bell. Time was 3:00. Lemieux retains the WBC International belt. read more ...

With an excited crowd behind him outdoors at the Uniprix Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on Friday night, 21-year old hometown Middleweight knockout artist David Lemieux (23-0, 22 KO) added his latest victim in 29-year old former title challenger Elvin Ayala (20-5-1, 9 KO), dropping Ayala three times en route to a first round stoppage read more ...

It was lights out for both Walid Smichet and the Montreal Casino as twenty-one year-old David Lemieux closed the show with a TKO victory at the :57 second mark of the second round Saturday night as boxing returned to the venue for the final time. The 700-seat facility which was home to forty-five shows will go dark for the next four years as extensive renovations take place to the facility. Lemieux ended things with bang though as he took the usually rugged Smichet and battered read more ...