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Gonna Be Some Rumbles in Repentigny

Rixa Promotions, in collaboration with Grant Brothers Boxing, recently announced their next boxing card for Montreal fight fans, happening on October 24th, but this event stands out from ...
On October 7, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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David Lemieux Public Workout

In downtown Montreal, there are few buildings more historic than “The Old Forum,” as it’s commonly referred to now. Not only was it the home of the Montreal ...
On September 24, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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Anna Reva: “I’ll Never Quit”

“I never thought that something like this would happen between me and Artur,” Montreal boxing manager Anna Reva says over the phone. She is speaking, of course, about ...
On September 19, 2015 / By Eliott McCormick
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Otis Grant On GGG vs Lemieux

This writer tried but failed to make it out to the Grant Brothers Gym in Montreal earlier today for something called a “Boxe-O-Thon,” though it wasn’t due to ...
On September 4, 2015 / By Michael Carbert
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Exclusive Interview with Howard Grant

Trainer Howard Grant sits down with Manny Montreal to give his thoughts on Lucian Bute’s comeback win last week, as well as his involvement with Patrick Côté on ...
On August 22, 2015 / By Manny Montreal
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Manny Montreal’s Bute vs Di Luisa Photo Gallery

Last night was a big night indeed for Montreal boxing fans, and for our own Manny Montreal who was ringside to catch every second of the action. Check out ...
On August 16, 2015 / By Manny Montreal
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Lucian Bute Is Back

For sheer emotion, it will be a moment hard to top in Montreal sports for 2015: Lucian Bute at ring center, holding aloft his fist, still wrapped in ...
On August 16, 2015 / By Michael Carbert
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Ulysse Jr Talks Bute

It was one of the stranger things anyone has seen of late at the Bell Centre in Montreal. There were the two fighters, in the ring, ready to ...
On August 13, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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Bute And Di Luisa Face Off

It takes a little time for this writer to identify the peculiar element in the atmosphere at the final press conference for the Premier Boxing Champions card taking ...
On August 12, 2015 / By Michael Carbert
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Bute In Training

Former super-middleweight world champion Lucian Bute returns to action on August 15 in Montreal, his first bout since his loss to Jean Pascal 18 months ago. The match will ...
On August 5, 2015 / By Manny Montreal
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Lucian Bute: The Return

Lucian Bute is far more comfortable communicating in his native Romanian, or in French, the official language of his adopted home city of Montreal, but during his talk ...
On July 14, 2015 / By Michael Carbert
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Furious Fisticuffs at Grant Brothers Pro-Am Event

You’re a boxing manager with a not uncommon problem: you have a talented and capable pugilist under contract, but no one wants to see him compete due to ...
On June 27, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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Francis Lafreniere: Confidence Rising

Few sports have a history as rich as boxing’s and one does not have to look too far back to recall when defeats were not regarded as reasons ...
On June 26, 2015 / By Michael Carbert
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The Show Must Go On

Tomorrow night will see another excellent showcase of local boxing talent put on by the Grant Brothers and Rixa Promotions at the Pointe Claire Holiday Inn, but, sadly, ...
On June 25, 2015 / By Michael Carbert
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The Times They Are A-Changin’

“The times, they are a changin’.” These lyrics, so endlessly applicable, are what serenaded David Lemieux’s ring walk on Saturday night. Dylan’s poetry ostensibly heralds a changing middleweight ...
On June 23, 2015 / By Eliott McCormick
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Lemieux vs N’Dam: A War In Montreal

David Lemieux and Hassan N’Dam gave fight fans in Montreal everything they could have possibly asked for as the two middleweights went to war for 12 brutal rounds ...
On June 21, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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Beterbiev Marches On

It’s anyone’s guess what exactly Yvon Michel and Al Haymon have in mind for Artur Beterbiev but boxing fans have every reason to be excited whatever the master ...
On June 13, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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June 26 Grant Brothers Card

Grant Brothers Boxing and Rixa Promotions continue to move forward in their quest to bring homegrown fight talent to a wider audience in Montreal (aka The Fight City), ...
On May 28, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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Razor Ruddock Comeback

Razor Ruddock is no doubt one of the few active fighters actually older than Champions Club de Boxe, the historic boxing gym in Montreal where he held court ...
On May 15, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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Falling in Love All Over Again

David Lemieux is a heart-breaker. Sporting GQ good looks and highlight reel punching power, he has all the potential to become a major star, in boxing and beyond. ...
On May 14, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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Action-Packed Grant Brothers Event

There are essentially two measures of success for a night of live boxing matches: the number of empty chairs in the venue and the quality of the fights. ...
On March 28, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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Grant Brothers Team Perseveres

Francis Lafreniere and Erik Bazinyan headline tonight’s boxing card at Montreal’s Olympia Theater, but that was not the Grant Brothers’ initial plan. In fact, very little has gone ...
On March 27, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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Pascal’s Heart Is Bigger Than The Bell Centre

Jean Pascal is not a complicated person. And if you want to understand his character and outlook, all you have to do is consider a strange moment shortly ...
On March 15, 2015 / By Michael Carbert
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A War in The Fight City

It was an all out war in Montreal, as Sergey Kovalev and Jean Pascal put on one of the best action fights of the year so far, maybe ...
On March 15, 2015 / By Shawn W. Smith
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Kovalev vs Pascal: All Eyes on Montreal

Tomorrow, as Sergey Kovalev prepares to unleash his Russian freight train of a right hand and battle hometown hero and former world champion Jean Pascal, the eyes of ...
On March 13, 2015 / By Shawn W. Smith
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Kovalev vs Pascal: Picks From Grant Brothers Gym

Who will emerge triumphant from this Saturday’s big light-heavyweight battle at the Bell Centre in Montreal? That’s what’s on the minds of fight fans this week and so ...
On March 12, 2015 / By Michael Carbert
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Interview: Xavier Alaoui

I was doing Judo when I was five years old and kept with it till I was 17 and, you know, shit got boring. It’s fun but it’s ...
On March 10, 2015 / By Michael Carbert
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Title Fights For Lemieux and Adonis

It’s been an exciting ride in recent weeks for fans of the Montreal boxing scene, and things are only getting better. It’s just February but already 2015 is ...
On February 18, 2015 / By Shawn W. Smith
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Shakeel Phinn: A Career Begins

On Saturday night at the Casino Lac Leamy in Gatineau, Quebec, a great line up of Quebec-based prospects and fledgling contenders stepped into the ring. And while the ...
On February 2, 2015 / By Michael Carbert
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Steven Butler: One Step at a Time

The first time I saw Steven Butler compete was in June of 2014. It was the undercard of an Eye of the Tiger “Fight Club” presentation, held at ...
On January 29, 2015 / By Shawn W. Smith

The Fight City

Montreal is The Fight City. Known in years past as "Sin City" and "Babylon on the St. Lawrence", it saw more than its share of ring legends over the decades. A metropolis where hundreds of young warriors train and battle each day in its many gyms, it is where Archie Moore, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and Bernard Hopkins all found greatness. It is a city of fights and fighters, of hockey and heroes, of broken dreams and immortal glory, a city unlike any other. Montreal is The Fight City.

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