WBC #12 super middleweight contender Librado Andrade (29-3, 22 KOs) scored an eighth round TKO over comebacking former WBC super middleweight champion Eric Lucas (39-7-3, 15 KOs) on Friday night in a highly-anticipated showdown at the Pepsi Colisee in Quebec City. In a good action fight, Andrade, fighting in Canada for the fourth consecutive time, simply had too much energy and durability for Lucas, who turns 39 at midnight tonight. The face of Lucas was progressively showing the effects of the fight with cuts over both eyes and a bloody nose. The fight was waved off after round eight. With the win, Andrade somewhat eases the memory of his title fight loss to current IBF champion Lucien Bute last November in the same building. Lucas said before the fight that he would retire if he didn’t win.

Middleweight Marcus Upshaw (13-4-1, 6 KOs) upset Renen St-Juste (24-2-1, 14 KOs). Upshaw was credited with a knockdown when St. Juste turned his back on him in round four and went on to win a ten round split decision.

Heralded prospect welterweight Mikael Zewski (4-0 3KO) made his home debut, just down river from his hometown of Three Rivers Quebec and made quick work of John Hoffman, scoring three knockdowns and having the bout stopped at 1:45 of the first round. Hoffman falls to an embarrassing 11-25, having been stooped inside the distance 22 times. The Minnesota fighter has now lost 19 of his last 20 and has been stopped 8 times in the first round. Zewski did receive a warning and lost a point for the first knockdown where he had Hoffman down to one knee and continued to fire off punches.

Former world title challenger Benoit Gaudet (22-2 9KO) got things started at Quebec Colisee, scoring a TKO victory at 2:00 of the eighth and final round over Pipino Cuevas Jr. (13-5 11KO). Gaudet was able to land strong right hands to the head and stinging left hooks to the body for the duration, stumbling his opponent several times during the contest. Cuevas got several reprieves in the seventh when he stumbled forward trying to grasp his opponent and hitting the canvas on what was eventually ruled a slip. Several calls for holding also bought the Mexican some valuable time and got him to the end of the round. Gaudet kept up the pressure though in the final round, throwing his opponent around like a ragdoll, scoring a knockdown before driving him into the ropes where it was called off.

Super-middleweight Francy N’Tetu (4-0) picked up from where he left off in his last fight against Ahmad Selemani (0-2), dominating for another four rounds and posting a 40-35 decision on all three scorecards. Like the first time they met in December, N’Tetu scored a knockdown, this time in the first as opposed to the second, and dominated his fellow Quebecer for the duration. n

Heavyweight Eric Martel made quick work of Chad Thrun of Winnipeg, stopping him at 3:00 of the first round. Thrun barely threw a punch and ran for the entire three minutes, knocked down twice, the second time at the end of the round where he went down like a falling tree. Martel moved to 4-0 while the over-matched Thrun remains winless at 0-2.