Browsing Tag Groupe Yvon Michel
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Photo Gallery: Grand Prix Gala
As reported by Jamie Rebner on your number one independent boxing website, the big Grand Prix weekend saw a solid fight card go down at the Montreal Casino, ...
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Oscar Rivas: Headed To Hostile Territory
To succeed at the highest level in professional boxing, one must have the confidence and mental fortitude to win in hostile territory. That means venturing onto your opponent’s ...
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Big Wins For Theroux And ‘Free Boy’
It’s only February but already 2019 is proving to be an outstanding year for fisticuffs at the Cabaret Room in the Casino de Montreal with a couple of ...
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Kovalev Returns! (With Some Help From “Buddy”)
The bell had yet to ring to start the fight, but the outcome was already decided. Sergey Kovalev was finished and about to get his butt kicked for ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 12
Welcome to another edition of The Fight City podcast, hosted by Alden Chodash, who this week gets a welcome respite while Michael Carbert and Rafael Garcia discuss, among other things, ...
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Setback For Lafreniere; Big Win For Luis
On a boxing-rich day for Canadian fight fans — with Steven Butler headlining in Rimouski and Jean Pascal challenging for a world title in Atlantic City — Groupe ...
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KO’s For Francis And Shak
Another week, another boxing card at the Montreal Casino, this time from Groupe Yvon Michel. The week before saw Eye Of The Tiger put on a major show there ...
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Fight Report: Stevenson vs Jack
The Event Stevenson vs Jack represented one of the best and most interesting match-ups to be made in the light heavyweight division for some time, not to mention ...
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Stevenson vs Jack: The Fight City Picks
It’s an intriguing match-up featuring two of the very best in a stacked light heavyweight division. Adonis Stevenson and Badou Jack are, without question, elite-level pugilists and this ...
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À La Prochaine, Montreal
Montreal is “The Fight City,” not Toronto. Or so we thought. And still think, as any objective evaluation of Canada’s two largest urban centres reveals a mismatch in ...
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Flawless Fight Night
Groupe Yvon Michel hosted another boxing gala on Thursday at the Montreal Casino, which turned out to be unlike any pugilistic event I might have imagined. The venue ...
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Casino Collision: Lafreniere And Onolunose Go To War
Montreal boxing fans had been promised six bouts on the latest Groupe Yvon Michel casino card, but the scheduled match for popular super middleweight Shakeel Phinn was cancelled at ...
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The Third Act Of “The Boss”
Most fighters get only one act. Their careers rise and fall like a dramatist’s plot structure, with a chosen few enjoying a longer arc than their peers. Rarely, ...
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Ulysse vs Claggett: Rare As Rubies
Tomorrow night Montreal hosts another major pro boxing card, this one organized by Eye Of The Tiger Management and featuring no fewer than 12 matches. The venue is ...
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Montreal Dream Fights
Montreal is The Fight City. And in June, 2017, it’s gone into overdrive. This past Thursday night saw another quality show at the Montreal Casino from the good ...
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Boxe Mania At The Bell Centre: Prelude To A Showdown
Last night was not the first time Eleider Alvarez and Adonis Stevenson have shared a ring. With both pugilists under contract to Groupe Yvon Michel, they’ve fought under ...
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Yvon Michel: “Adonis Has Never Ducked Anyone!”
Adonis Stevenson vs Andrzej Fonfara II. Eleider Alvarez vs Jean Pascal. Two major showdowns with serious implications, both happening on the same card this Saturday night. A world ...
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The Curious Case Of King Artur
There’s that old tale about Androcles, the slave who fled his master and then pulled the stinging thorn from the lion’s paw. Both were later captured and the ...
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Behind The Smiles: Boxe Mania Press Conference
Boxing press conferences, as many know, often involve a certain degree of tension and discomfort and even, on occasion, violence. Thus, as your friendly journalist enters the appointed ...
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Donnybrook Gym Invades Montreal Casino
Montreal’s Donnybrook Boxing Gym opened its doors less than six months ago, but tomorrow night it makes a statement at the Montreal Casino with two fighters on the ...
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The Calm Before The Storm
From the outside looking in, it would appear to be a do-or-die type situation for Lucian Bute, one of great urgency and tension, if not outright panic. After ...
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Montreal’s Golden Age?
Last Thursday, promoter Yvon Michel held a press conference at Casino Lac Leamy in Gatineau to announce a December 23 card featuring Artur Beterbiev and Custio Clayton. Both fighters ...
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Big Win For Custio
Since Yvon Michel resurrected boxing at the Casino de Montreal last January we have seen a series of intriguing events staged to give young prospects the chance to ...
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Yvon Michel: Looking To The Future
Belying his eminent position in boxing and celebrity status in Quebec, promoter Yvon Michel is refreshingly personable and candid, not always the case in the world of professional ...
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Manny Montreal’s ‘Shootout’ Gallery
This past Friday night in Quebec City it was another Premier Boxing Champions card, with Groupe Yvon Michel presenting a night of fights called “Shootout” for Spike TV. And ...
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Quebec City Shootout
Tomorrow night Premier Boxing Champions returns on Spike TV with a card co-staged by Groupe Yvon Michel, the event billed as “Shootout” by the promoters because of the ...
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Mist And Glitz: Montreal Casino Card
The Montreal Casino’s Cabaret Room was awash in dark tones last night. The violet, blue, and fuchsia pouring from the stage lights were offset by a constellation of flickering white on both ...
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Beterbiev Returns
Groupe Yvon Michel has announced a major boxing event for June 4 at the Bell Centre in Montreal and while the entire card has yet to take shape, ...
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Big Wins At Montreal Casino
As a Montrealer and self-confessed boxing fanatic, I have to admit I’m pretty spoiled when it comes to watching live fisticuffs on a regular basis. How many other ...
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2015: The Year That Was
As we charge fearlessly into 2016, boxing fans look back at 2015 with decidedly mixed feelings as the year was clearly a mixed bag of the good, the ...
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