Browsing Tag Yvon Michel
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Rivas And Phinn On The Rise
Last Thursday the Montreal Casino hosted another boxing gala from Groupe Yvon Michel which saw local fight fans entertained by solid performances from emerging pro talents. Light heavyweight ...
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Fight Time In The Fight City
When it rains, it pours. This time last week the skies were clear and quiet in Montreal, maybe a bit too quiet. Then all at once boxing was ...
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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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The Legend Of Paul Dubé
That there’s no metropolis quite like Montreal is a proposition for which an abundance of evidence exists, but if one wants further proof that the place we like ...
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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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Shakeel Phinn Dominates At Montreal Casino
If Shakeel Phinn was going to be truly tested in his first main event, it seemed likely — after a heated face off following the weigh-in — that it ...
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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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The Weekend That Was
Some notable matches went down this past weekend, so let’s do our usual wrap-up of the major boxing action. First up, Ryan “The Real Deal” Ford journeyed to ...
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Something New And Different
For the past month the Casino de Montreal has staged a special promotion, offering patrons “big top flair” and a “circus vibe,” complete with acrobats and performers from ...
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Drowning in Deep Water: Beterbiev Destroys Prieto
Last night at Casino du Lac-Leamy in Gatineau, Quebec, Artur Beterbiev took one round to drown Isidro “El Guerrero” Prieto in some very deep water. What was meant to be a ...
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High Stakes In Quebec City
Yesterday, Lucian Bute and promoter Yvon Michel gathered media at the Montreal Casino to officially announce the former IBF super middleweight champion’s next fight: a light heavyweight showdown against WBC ...
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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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Montreal Picks Golovkin
As can be the case when you have two high-powered promotional outfits in the same city, earlier this week saw not one, but two major press conferences concerning ...
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Shakeel Phinn: A Fighter’s Life
Finding one’s place in the world isn’t always easy. It can take time to determine one’s true calling, to know you’re doing what you were meant to do. ...
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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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Grand Prix Gala: Beterbiev Is Back
They called it “The Grand Prix Gala” as it was Grand Prix Weekend in Montreal, and a gala it was, complete with tributes to local luminaries as well ...
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Will Beterbiev Ignite The Light Heavyweights?
All dressed up, no place to go: that’s boxing’s light heavyweight division at the moment. So much talent, so many great matches waiting to be made, but everything ...
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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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Bute: Confident & Dangerous
One of boxing’s most intriguing stories of the last few years continues to unfold with the next chapter to be written Saturday night at the historic DC Armory ...
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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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Casino Boxing Series Returns
For over seven years, pro boxing was an entertainment staple at the Cabaret in the Casino de Montreal but, for various reasons, the fights stopped. Considering that championship ...
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Fight Report: DeGale vs Bute
The Event An intriguing match-up in several respects, DeGale vs Bute pretty much guaranteed an interesting outcome of some kind. This was a contest between two unanswered questions: how ...
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Chris Ganescu: “Bute Is Exceptional”
For manager Chris Ganescu, boxing is a passion. Which is not surprising considering his father competed in the squared circle back in his native country of Romania. Chris ...
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Expect The Unexpected
Boxing, it is said, is “the theater of the unexpected,” but this statement naturally applies more to some fights than others. In the case of this Saturday’s clash ...
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Cotto vs Canelo: The Fight City Picks (Part 2)
The intrepid Manny Montreal asked contenders, champions, trainers and fans for their picks for the big Cotto vs Canelo showdown. In Part 1 we got insight from Otis Grant, ...
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