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Patrice Volny Wins NABO Middleweight Title

Fight Held at Ed Lumley Arena

By Jim Riddell Gomez 28-16 (13 ko’s) on a 6th rnd
TKO. Jean, in constant control of the
or the second time in 15 months fight, started to find the range in the
Fa North American Championship 5th round, and was landing many hard
title belt has been won in a boxing ring clean shots when the referee jumped
at the Civic Complex in Cornwall. in, stopping the fight with thirty
In June of 2017, fighting for only seconds left in the 6th. The thirty-six-
the second time in his hometown, year-old Dierry Jean whose only two
Tony Luis won the vacant WBA losses came in world title challenges
lightweight belt by defeating the still appears to have lots left – it will
previously unbeaten Cam O’Connell. be interesting to see where his career
This time it was a WBO middleweight goes from here.
belt changing hands with Montreal’s
On the undercard fights Mazlum
Patrice Volny 12-0 (8 KO’s) winning
Akdeniz 6-0 of Montreal remained
the title with a unanimous decision unbeaten with a unanimous decision
over champion Albert Onolunose of
over Victor Campos of Mexico in a
Calgary 23-2 (7 KO’s).
welterweight fight. In cruiserweight
The fight was hard fought, close, action, Devin Tomko of Winnipeg
and many of the early rounds could raised his record to 5-0 with a 2nd
have gone either way. Volny took round KO of Markhalle Wedderburn
control from the 6th round on, of Calgary. Cornwall native Joe
winning by a wide margin on the Bowman, a two-time Canadian
judges’ scorecards. In the co- main champion in the amateur ranks made Patrice Volny with his NABO and Canadian Title belts.
event welterweight Dierry Jean of a very successful pro debut winning Photo Credit: Jim Riddell
Montreal 30-2 with 21 knockouts, every round against his tough

made his return to the ring after Mexican opponent Jiar Baltazar. when Adde Simon of Los Angeles entertaining championship fight card.
more than two years away, stopping In the opening bout of the night was unable to come out for the 3rd Hopefully we see more boxing at the
Mexican journeyman Abraham Cruiserweight Francesco Lagunes round. Kudos to the matchmaker(s) Civic Complex in the future.
of Mexico was credited with a TKO at Lee Baxter Promotions for the