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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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), ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Groupe Yvon Michel: Lemieux Still Our Fighter
Montreal’s David Lemieux is attempting to move away from the promotional services of GYM (Groupe Yvon Michel) and sign instead with Los Angles-based Golden Boy Promotions. Indeed, an ...
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Getting Past The Gatekeeper
Oscar De La Hoya wants David Lemieux to win tomorrow night. HBO wants David Lemieux to win tomorrow night. And, naturally, David Lemieux and his Eye of the ...
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Pascal Gets His Man
On Tuesday, Main Events CEO Kathy Duva confirmed that a deal is now set for Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev to face Montreal native Jean Pascal in March. The bout ...
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David Lemieux Leaves Home
The babe is leaving its cradle. On Monday it was announced that Montreal’s David Lemieux will travel to Brooklyn on December 6 to face Gabriel ‘King’ Rosado at the ...
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