It is expected that after an almost three-year break Billy Joe Saunders (30-1, 14 KOs) will return to the ring early next year. The Briton took a long break after the first defeat in his career against Saul Alvarez (60-2-2, 39 KOs).
According to police officials in Montreal, Canada, father David Lemieux (43-5, 36 KOs) Andre was killed in a shootout. Two men, including the father of the former world middleweight champion, were gunned down in separate incidents on Tuesday evening less than an hour apart.
In a duel between former world champions David Benavidez (26-0, 23 KOs) effectively knocked out David Lemieux (43-5, 36 KOs) in the third round and won the interim WBC super middleweight title in the main event of the evening at Gila River in Glendale, Arizona.
David Benavidez (25-0, 22 KOs) and David Lemieux (43-4, 36 KOs) hit the super middleweight limit at the official weigh-in ceremony ahead of the Glendale boxing night. The bet of the fight will be an interim WBC world champion belt. The weight of Benavidez and Lemieux turned out to be the same and amounted to 75.4 kg.
This coming Saturday in Glendale, Arizona, a boxing evening will take place, in which the unbeaten two-time world champion David Benavidez (25-0, 22 KOs) will fight the former world champion David Lemieux (43-4, 36 KOs) for the interim WBC super middleweight title. The boxers met face to face for the first time at the final press conference. The evening of boxing will be broadcast on Shouttime.