Bernard Hopkins fought Jean Pascal twice, holding him to a draw in 2010 and then winning the light heavyweight championship from him in 2011. Hopkins watched Pascal’s fight with Lucian Bute earlier this month and was complimentary of his performance,...
by David P. Greisman - The fans still packed the Bell Centre, more than 20,000 of them spending the evening in Montreal watching a card headlined by their province’s two most popular boxers of recent years. Many still cheered for Jean Pascal, and man...
Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada - Jean Pascal (29-2-1, 17KOs) dominated most of the action, but he was forced to survive after getting hurt in the last round - winning a twelve round unanimous decision over Lucian Bute (31-2, 24KOs). Bute was moving up...
Jean Pascal carried what action there was in the fight, landing an avg. of 16 of 37 punches per round. The tentative Lucian Bute avg'd 28 punches thrown per round (10 landed) thru eleven rounds before sniffing the finish line and throwing 98 punches...
Jean Pascal dominated an unusually tentative Lucian Bute to win the matchup of former world champions by unanimous decision before 20,479 at the Bell Centre in Montreal on Saturday night. One judge had it 118-110, another 117-111 and the third 116-11...
Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada - Lucian Bute (31-2, 24KOs) was unable to let his hands go for much of his contest with Jean Pascal (29-2-1, 17KOs) - but in the twelfth and final round he finally started throwing and had Pascal in some trouble. But it...
Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada - Stephan Larouche, trainer of former IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (31-2, 24KOs), offered no explanation on why his boxer was unable to let his hands go for much of his contest with Jean Pascal (29-2-1, 17...
Lucian Bute and Jean Pascal aren’t world champions anymore and respective losses to Carl Froch and Bernard Hopkins have hurt the brands of both boxers. You wouldn’t know it based on the stir their light heavyweight showdown has caused in boxing-cr...
Former four division world champion Roy Jones Jr. discusses the Canadian super fight between Jean Pascal and Lucian Bute. Jones has been working with Pascal in training camp and believes he will do more than enough to win the domestic rivalry, and sa...
HBO makes its boxing debut Saturday evening, offering a doubleheader which airs live from the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. The main event pits two of the nation’s most popular attractions, as fellow transplants Jean Pascal and Lucian Bute meet in...