Rubio is fighting on New Year's Day?!

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?page=boxing/schedule/index

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=116364&cat=boxer

Undefeated Santana is a hyped local fighter. This is Rubio's last hooray before fighting Lemieux in March.

Was Rubio put on his ass vs Pavlik, or did he just quit?! That was in February 2009... the only decent guy he beat since then was Miller.
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http://boxing.fanhouse.com/2010/12/20/david-lemieux-targets-marco-antonio-rubio-sergio-martinez/

"The goal for Lemieux is to fight Rubio to become the mandatory challenger," said Michel, "and, before the end of the year, 2011, to challenge Sergio Martinez for the world title."
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Martinez might fight Zbik if that works for both HBO and the WBC, but Martinez-Lemieux before the end of 2011 would be sweeeeeeeet. :hey

 

How early does Boxrec list upcoming fights, do you know? I fear that we won't see David in action before March, even after Gates' brutal ring escape from early Dec. Rubio fights on Saturday, fights again 2 months after that... Lemieux has been racking up fights, had 5 in 2010. A stay busy fight with Ishe Smith, who declined GYM's 2-week notice for a fight late Nov (i.e. the Gates fight), would be great for David's development.

http://charlesfighttime.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/rapides-et-dangereux.jpg

11 Feb 2011 is one of the 'Fast & Furious' series dates, which David's fight vs Gates was a part of. The Rubio fight will be on a higher profile card.

On a side note, I'm praying for Maravilla not to vacate the belt... Lemieux-Zbik would not be uber exciting. Possible massacre.

 

LOL yeah, just finished watching Part II of the fight on youtube. Nice.

Now, found something that was posted yesterday on netboxe.com... I'll translate it.

La WBC a fait grimper le Québécois David Lemieux d'une autre marche dans son classement mondial des poids moyens, l'installant au second échelon, tout juste derrière le Mexicain Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Cette nouvelle donne pourrait par le fait même permettre à Yvon Michel d'avoir une main gagnante et lui permettre de passer outre le combat prévu face à Marco Antonio Rubio.

- The WBC bumped Quebecer David Lemieux up one spot in their world middleweight rankings, putting him in the number 2 spot, just behind Mexican Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Those newly dealt cards could give a winning hand to Yvon Michel and allow him to bypass the scheduled Rubio fight.

Rappelons que la WBC a ordonné lors de sa dernière convention un duel éliminatoire pour le statut de challenger officiel entre David Lemieux et Marco Antonio Rubio, également du Mexique. Yvon Michel aimerait présenté ce combat à Montréal en avril lors du dernier événement de la série Rapides et Dangereux. Toutefois, incapable de convaincre le clan de Rubio, les deux groupes seront vraisemblablement contrait de participer à l'appel d'offres que lancera le WBC en janvier pour l'organisation de ce combat.

- Let's remind ourselves that the WBC sanctioned an eliminator between Lemieux and Rubio at their last convention (?). Yvon Michel would like to hold the fight in Montreal, in the April timeframe, as part of the last event of the Fast & Furious series. Not being able to come to an agreement, both parties will most likely take part in a bidding process which the WBC should hold in January (note: deadline is Jan 7th).

Par contre, en vertu de ce nouveau classement, David Lemieux pourrait être appelé à affronter directement le champion intérimaire Sebastian Zbik. De fait, s'il advenait que l'actuel champion du monde WBC Sergio Gabriel Martinez refuse d'affronter Sebastian Zbik comme l'ordonne le WBC, Martinez perdrait sa ceinture et Zbik serait désigné champion à part entière . Cette promotion serait toutefois sujette à une victoire face à un aspirant désigné par le WBC et l'organisme de sanction pourrait alors ordonné un combat entre David Lemieux et Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. pour ce nouveau statut d'aspirant. Dans le cas d'un refus de Chavez d'affronter Lemieux, celui-ci aurait donc les coudées franches pour affronter directement Sebastian Zbik.

- However, with these new rankings, Lemieux could end up facing interim champ Sebastian Zbik. If current WBC Champion Sergio Gabriel Martinez were to refuse to fight Zbik as ordered by the WBC, Martinez would lose the belt and Zbik could become the titlist. Zbik would then have to defend the belt (as part of the crowning process) against a mandatory opponent which could be the winner of a Chavez Jr - Lemieux fight. If Chavez Jr were to refuse to fight Lemieux, we could see a Zbik-Lemieux fight.

 

A local tv station showed Lemieux-Contreras last night....... fear. You could see fear in Contreras' face after the 2nd minute of the 2nd round, after being caught by 2 left hooks in less than 20 secs. Contreras was the tallest -and, arguably, the toughest- journeyman David had faced up to that point (Nov '09). Purnell 'Knock you out' Gates also showed he was afraid of getting hit by David.

Anber's gonna go "David, start downstairs and work your way up!" between the 1st and the 2nd vs Rubio, and Rubio might start to run for his life after the first flurry to the body David throws. - NO MAS!

Pardon my ignorance, but how do you explain this 'direct and easy to trace lineage back to all 4 major titles' at 160?

 

Good call lol... his mother is Armanian, isn't she? But yeah, the kid's from Montreal.

David Lemieux... ca sonne pas trop arménien.