David Lemieux (boxer)
David Lemieux ( born December 22, 1988 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a Canadian professional boxer.
Amateur career
At age nine, Lemieux began with boxing. He won the Canadian championship three times.
Pro career
At 17, David Lemieux already wanted to be a professional. The Canadian Boxing Federation allows professional boxing but only after 18 years. On April 14, 2007, he denied then at age 18 his first professional fight, which he won by knockout in the second round. Eighteen months later, David Lemieux won his first "smaller" titles - the Canadian Quebec Champion title in the light middleweight division. On 11 December 2009 he hit Delray Raines in the second -round knockout and won as the Intercontinental junior world champion belt of the WBC middleweight. It was his 20th knockout victory in his 20th fight. In the next fight Lemieux had to go for the first time to make ends meet. He won all 10 rounds against Jason Naugler and sent him over the course of the fight even once to the ground. With this victory, David Lemieux secured the Canadian championship title at super middleweight. The title he defended two months later once ahead of schedule, before he resigned the title undefeated.
Fight against Abraham opponents Ayala and Hector Camacho Jr
On 11 June 2010 for the WBC International belt, we went at middleweight. His opponent Elvin Ayala, who fought in March 2008 against Arthur Abraham 12 rounds for the IBF World Championship before he left a few seconds before the final KO, was considered the greatest touchstone in the young career of Canadian boxer. However, Lemieux sent his opponent in the first round total of three times to the ground. The third precipitation, 16 seconds left in the first round, was the final knockout. On 29 October 2010 Lemieux defended his WBC International championship belt against the very experienced Hector Camacho Jr Puerto Ricans, who previously won by his 57 fights, 52, once punched draw, a fight got no score and only three lost. This fight ended in the first round. It was only the second defeat for premature Hector Camacho Jr. On 3 December 2010 Lemieux was able to continue his winning streak with a TKO victory in round 2 over Purnell Gates.
The first defeat
On 8 April 2011 Lemieux punched in the WBC World Championship Eliminator bout against Marco Antonio Rubio. Lemieux began usual aggressive and put Rubio as early as Round 1 hard to. However, this could be left to give, and so the first six rounds went without precipitation clearly to Lemieux. In the seventh round of unpaid Lemieux 's condition the pressure of the early rounds tribute. He had for the first time in his professional career to the ground after a hard and just defeated left-right combination Rubios. Rubio sat by and met with several Lemieux heavy hands, before the referee broke off the fight by throwing the towel Lemieuxs coach.
On 10 December of the same year was followed by another defeat, this time by a majority decision on points against Joachim Alcine. One of the judges evaluated the fight 114:114 draw, the other two decided to 116:112 for Alcine.
After half a year of abstinence ring Lemieux in 2012 increased three times in the ring and won against opponents structure in each of the first two rounds by knockout.
Others
Currently occupied David Lemieux 29th place in the independent world rankings. He is with his first 22 years by his extremely aggressive style of boxing and hard punch than is currently the biggest talent in the middleweight division. Of his 26 fights to date, of which he won 25, he was able to record 24 KOs. 20 fights of which he finished in the first two rounds.