(Montreal) In the arena of the Cabaret du Casino de Montréal on Thursday evening, Marie-Pier Houle proved that she had guts and that she could be fierce. When she came out of the ring, she showed a lot of honesty.
In a spectacular fight, Houle had to settle for a draw against Mexican Karla Ramos Zamora in a 10-round super-lightweight duel.
Sylvain Leblanc returned a score of 96-94 in favor of Houle (10-1-2, 3 KOs) while Pasquale Procopio gave the opposite score for Zamora (11-10-2, 4 KOs). O.). Marie-Josée Guérin delivered a score of 95-95.
I think it’s the decision I deserved. I adjusted after a couple of rounds though. There were rounds where I adjusted really well.
Marie-Pier Houle
“She still shook me with some punches. There were rounds where I struggled a little. The headbutts, I admit that it bothered me a little,” added Houle.
At a press conference last week, Houle’s coach, Sébastien Gauthier, declared that his protégé was preparing for a war. He wasn’t wrong.
The first four rounds were not easy for the pugilist from Trois-Rivières, who suffered several good blows, both from the left and the right from Zamora.
Encouraged by the spectators who chanted “Marie” several times during the battle, Houle regained momentum from the fifth round and her defense became a little more tight.
The 10e and the final assault was like the rest of the fight; wild and very tight.
Zamora had some good moments at the start of the attack but Houle was able to touch her rival in the second half of the round.
“It was a fight a bit like I expected. I would have liked to be able to do better, to impose myself physically. I hit her with some big punches, but I knew she was a girl who wouldn’t back down and had to keep pushing. She’s a girl who’s not really stoppable,” Houle also said.
Pomerleau wins and challenges Volny
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Derek Pomerleau
In the semi-final of the evening, Derek Pomerleau, a middleweight from Mercier, only needed one round to sign a ninth victory in as many fights, and a seventh before the limit, against Leonel Castanon , a 28-year-old Mexican who now lives in Vancouver.
Pomerleau, a 24-year-old left-hander, sent his opponent to the mat on three occasions and referee Steve St-Germain had no other alternative than to end the unequal confrontation at 2:53 of the assault initial.
After the fight, Pomerleau took the microphone and announced his desire to face Patrice Volny, who recently defeated Steven Butler.
“I would like to share the ring with Patrice Volny,” Pomerleau repeated in the press scrum.
He did really well against Steven Butler, once again I congratulate him, there is no animosity between me and Patrice. He’s a really good guy, but it’s still boxing and the goal is to move up. I want to face the best, and the next one, here in Canada, who is ranked ahead of me in boxrec, is him, and it bothers me a little to be at the bottom. I would like to face him.
Derek Pomerleau
The request was well heard by Volny, present at the Casino, but it ended in refusal. At least not for the moment, he clarified.
“Go fight Derek, it’s not something I’m interested in.” It’s not something that allows me to progress in my career either,” Volny told the journalists present.
Impressive debut for Maanni
Four other fights featured in this summer boxing evening – summer officially began on June 20 – from the Yvon Michel Group.
The most impressive performance of this part of the gala came from Montrealer Ayoub Maanni who, in his first professional fight, defeated the Pole Maciej Jedrzej Marciniak in just 56 seconds with a powerful left hook, in a duel scheduled for four rounds at light heavyweight.
Marciniak, who was also competing in his first professional fight, was so stunned that referee Yvon Goulet ended the fight without even initiating a count.
Sitting in a neutral corner of the ring, Marciniak needed several minutes and a doctor’s attention to regain his senses before leaving under his own power.
Two of the three other fights went to the limit, including the one won by unanimous decision by Montrealer Reid Twohey (2-0-0, 0 KO) against Mexican Abraham Gomez, in the super middleweight category. .
Twohey largely dominated the four rounds of the clash and fully deserved his victory by unanimous decision. Except that he was never able to knock out his 40-year-old rival, whose physical form is not necessarily exemplary and who has now won only 23 of his 70 career fights, including 42 losses.
We were treated to an identical scenario during the four-round fight between Montrealer Winner Bondo (2-0-0, 0 KO) and Oped Sepulveda (0-2-1), in the super-lightweight category, which Bondo easily won by unanimous decision against another Mexican, this one aged 19.
In the very first clash of the evening, Montrealer Jean-Gardy François (4-0-1, 3 KOs) defeated Torontonian Sherif Anim (3-1-0, 3 KOs) by knocked out of action at 2:13 of the first attack in a duel scheduled for six rounds at lightweight.