Jean Pascal

Jean- Thenistor Pascal ( born October 28, 1982 in Port-au -Prince, Haiti ) is a Haitian - Canadian professional boxer and former WBC world champion in the light heavyweight division.

He came at the age of four years with his mother and his older brother from Haiti in the near Montreal. When his brother in 1996 boxing champion of Quebec was, he also began with the boxes. In his amateur career, he won 103 fights and lost 18 From 1998 to 2004, he was seven times in a row, Canadian champion. He also won the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the light middleweight and the bronze medal at the Pan American Games in 2003. During the Olympic Games in 2004, however, he retired early against Yordanis Despaigne from Cuba.

On 3 February 2005, he denied then his professional debut. By the end of 2008, he has played 25 fights into his professional career. Of his 24 victories, he was 16 prematurely. His only loss inflicting Carl Froch in a fight for the vacant WBC super middleweight title in December 2008. On 19 June 2009, he won the WBC light heavyweight title with a points victory over Adrian Diaconu. He defended his title three months later against Silvio Branco. On 11 December 2009 he won in a rematch in Montreal again over Adrian Diaconu. His greatest success came Pascal when he could defeat in August 2010 to favored Chad Dawson on points. He also won the title of the prestigious Ring Magazine.

On 18 December 2010, there was to defend his title against veteran Pascal Bernard Hopkins, who is number one thanks to its numerous career achievements in the independent computer rankings. The fight ended in a draw, followed by a rematch for May 21, was agreed to unanimously Pascal but lost on points. In January 2014 he succeeded for a points victory against Lucian Bute.

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