Canada’s light heavyweights on display as Stevenson defends title; Pascal, Alvarez clash
MONTREAL — Canada’s presence in the light heavyweight division will be on display when Adonis Stevenson, Jean Pascal and Eleider Alvarez appear in the same Bell Centre ring on Saturday night.
Southpaw slugger Stevenson (28-1) will face Andrzej Fonfara (29-4) of Poland in the eighth defence of the World Boxing Council belt he won by knocking American Chad Dawson out cold in only 76 seconds in 2013.
The co-feature has former WBC champion Pascal (31-4-1) against Alvarez (22-0) in an elimination bout to determine which of them gets to challenge the Stevenson-Fonfara winner, possibly later this year.
Stevenson and Pascal are Haiti natives who grew up in Montreal, while Alvarez is a Colombian who moved to the city to turn pro in 2009.