مونتريال (مارس 9, 2021) -جروب إيفون ميشيل (نادي رياضي) will organize its first event in 16 months – “The Homecoming: Rivas vs. Louis 2” — Tuesday night, مارس 16 at Hotel Plaza Quebec in Quebec City, كيبيك, Canada.
“The Homecoming,” presented in co-promotion withNew Era Fighting & Promotion and in collaboration ofترقيات لي باكستر is headlined by a rematch featuringأوسكار "كابوم" ريفاس (26-1, 18 كوس) وSylvera “Sly” Louis (8-5, 4 كوس) in the 8-round main event. Rivas defeated Louis by 4-round majority decision back in 2012.
A representative of his native Colombia at the 2008 الألعاب الأولمبية, Rivas is coming off a controversial loss July 20, 2019, by way of a 12-round decision toديليان وايت (25-1) in the United Kingdom for the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) Interim heavyweight title.
A maximum of 120 fans for a total of 250 peoples will be allowed to attend “The Homecoming.” Boxers and trainers had to have quarantined for 14 أيام قبل الحدث, and they must carefully check any Covid potential symptoms during 10 days after the fights.
Rivas is rated No. 1 in the WBC’s new weight class, Bridgerweight (200 إلى 224 رطلا.), and he and Louis will participate in the Bridgerweight’s inaugural fight.
“It was not easy to put all the parts in place, to have our sanitary protocol accepted and to obtain all the required authorizations while Quebec City was in the worst of the Covid pandemic time and declared a red zone,” GYM presidentإيفون ميشيل said. “It has been tireless teamwork for several months and full collaboration from the participants. It is an expensive but important adventure for the relaunch of our activities and the restarting of the careers of our boxers. This gala will allow several boxers to regain hope and WBC # 1 aspirant Oscar Rivas to restart the machine for whom we have very ambitious plans this year.”
“The Homecoming” will be streamed live by FITE worldwide on the FITE mobile apps, all major OTT apps and website (www.FITE.tv), ابتداء من الساعة 8 عصرا. و / 5 عصرا. PT, إلى $29.99 USD (available in English or French). It will also be available in Canada via Canal Indigo, جرس TV, Shaw TV and YOOP.
في حال المواصفات المشتركة, Canadian favoriteسيباستيان بوشار (18-2, 8 كوس) takes on welterweightماريو بيريز (20-7-5, 12 كوس) in a 6-tound bout. It will be the first fight for Bouchard since he was injured in the ring in November 2019.
Former NBA and NABO middleweight championباتريس فولني (25-1, 18 كوس) squares off against former Canada middleweight titlistJanko Trotter (10-5-2) in a super middleweight clash of Canadians. This is a very important fight for IBF #6 ranked Volny who has been appointed to box PolishPatrick Wojcicki, اتحاد الملاكمة العالمي #3, for the mandatory position to challenge world championجينادي Golovkin in May.
Former Canadian amateur champion and member of the Canadian National Team, Alexis Barrière, will make is long awaited pro debut when he meetsColin Sangster (2-0, 2 كوس) in a 4-round fight between Canadian heavyweight prospects.
There matches showcasing cruiserweights are also on tap on the undercard: شائعYan “Wild Thing” Pellerin (10-1, 4 كوس) ضد.Marco Parente (1-4-3) in a 6-rounder, plus a pair of 4-round fights betweenFrancis Charbonneau (2-1, 2 كوس) مقابل. Alexandre Roberge (1-0, 0 كوس), وAlexander Beaule (1-0ل 1 KO) ضد.Nick “Big Mac” Naccarato (0-0-1).
Card subject to change.
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ABOUT THE YVON MICHEL GROUP (نادي رياضي): جروب إيفون ميشيل (نادي رياضي) تأسست في 2004 بواسطة إيفون ميشيل ورفاقه. The organization’s mission is the development of high-level boxers through support in management and especially by management in competition. In order to achieve its objectives, GYM is active in talent recruitment and event organization, having developed major partnerships with Gestev, Videotron, تي في ايه سبورتس, Mise-O-Jeu, Loto-Québec, Montreal Casinos and Lac Leamy, RNC Media and 91.9 الرياضة, & CO, Bel Printing & Lapointe Dental Center, Rival in addition to cooperating closely with Rixa Promotions. The entire GYM team is actively working with the Yvon Michel Foundation to help fight breast cancer. GYM President Yvon Michel was inducted into the Boxing Canada Hall of Fame in April 2017. GYM has contributed to the development of many world champions, including Marie-Ève Dicaire (اتحاد الملاكمة العالمي), أدونيس ستيفنسون (WBC), Eleider ألفاريز (المنظمة العالمية للملاكمة) and Artur Beterbiev (اتحاد الملاكمة العالمي), جان باسكال (WBC) and Joachim Alcine (رابطة الملاكمة العالمية), the most ever by a Canadian promoter in history.