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Rubio Busts Lemieux
Bubble - TKO7
By George Elsasser
They called it
an upset - when veteran middleweight Marco Antonio Rubio decided not to call
it a pay day in his battle with undefeated hometown favorite Dave Lemieux-
in what was labeled WBC - Eliminator.
The setting was
well planned - Bell Centre, home of the Montreal Canadians - and many
tickets sold with hockey fans turned boxing fans for the night . In a
root-root-root for the new "phenom. "
The ESPN2 pre-fite
experts were in sync - Teddy hedged a teeny bit - but still leaned for the
22 year old pabulum fed Lemieux that entered with glittering resume` of
25-0, 24 KO - tossed in that the Canadian was the stronger of the two in his
pre-fight keys to victory.
Tessie baby
joined with glowing tributes of his own - and Rubio you ask? This one was
his 55th kept appointment - stat sheet had the age 30 veteran
arriving at 49-5, 42 KOs.
Then the
opening bell … first half of the stanza sees both looking to counter. Then
the kid turns up the heat with two-fisted onslaught that would set the tempo
over the first five candles.
Rubio had
pretty much sampled everything the Canuck had to offer - and now it was time
to get off - stanza six a big one for the Mexican - a big right hand-left
hook combination wobbles Lemieux late in the candle.
Now it's lucky seven with Rubio in charge -
late in round a big right hand drops Lemieux - a furious follow up sees his
prey helpless against the ropes and his corner wisely tosses in the towel.
Time of
stoppage 2:36 mark of numero seven.
Closing
thoughts: Marco Antonio Rubio now on eight bout win streak - is rated #1 WBC
middleweight challenger - next outing could be winner of Zbik-Chavez title
fight.
No surprise
here if Rubio pulls off another "upset" with either guy - Sebastian Zbik has
feasted entirely on faceless German pabulum - Chavez as well would be
stepping up in talent against Rubio.
PS: David
Lemieux (25-1, 24 KOs) ~ age 22 is the key - decent power with both hands
but not the devastating power that was advertised. Cannot go the "Katie bar
the door" route alone. Must now work on technique - was rushed in over his
head last noche.
Flashback:
Memories returned during this first peek at the Canadian - was during the
1940s a celebrated Frankie Carbo Philadelphia l/heavy named Billy Fox was
cleverly nurtured into a title fight with then champion Gus Lesnevich.
Fox arrived
undefeated in some 36 fights -- all via the knockout route. Lesnevich
successfully retained his title with stanza ten stoppage. Some years later
during the infamous Carbo era Jake LaMotta went on record of taking a dive
when in with Fox in order to get middleweight title fight. The rest is
history.
GEL -
4/8/2011
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