Marie-Eve Dicaire found it, “her” belt. The Quebecer recovered her title of IBF super-middleweight champion on Friday at the Bell Center.
It won by decision of the referee at 7e round against the Mexican Cynthia Lozano.
The smiling boxer was moved in the ring, a few seconds after her victory.
“It’s really incredible as a feeling,” she reacted.
“When you become world champion, you accomplish something. But when you lose and start at the bottom of the ladder again, and you manage to get your hands on a world championship belt… It’s a balm on a tough year. ”
The outcome of the fight will not have long been in doubt. Dicaire continued, round after round, strikes with power. Lozano’s responses lacked vigor and volume.
Dicaire’s record is now 18-1-0. This is the first career loss for Lozano (9-1-0, 7 K. -O.)
The Quebec boxer, ranked # 1 at the IBF, lost her world title in her only career loss, to American Claressa Shields last March. The latter had left the title vacant after her change of division.
Dicaire thus became the third Quebec pugilist only to have regained her belt after losing it, after Lou Brouillard (1933) and Jean Pascal (2019).
Kim Clavel fight date confirmed
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Kim Clavel was present at the Bell Center on Friday evening to make the announcement: her WBC half-fly world championship fight will finally take place on March 11 at the Casino de Montreal.
Clavel stepped into the ring between two sub-card fights to make the announcement.
She was originally scheduled to fight Friday night against Mexico’s Yesenia Gomez, but her fight was postponed after suffering an injury in training.
She had experienced “like the end of the world” the cancellation of her fight a few weeks before December 17, she told us last week on the phone. But back in training, she felt she was going to “get there even more solid”.