Golden Boy Boxing: Bute vs. Andrade Rematch Tonight In Quebec City

ByBoxing Press

A few days after the United States celebrated Thanksgiving, Canadians will be celebrating one of the biggest sporting events ever to land in Quebec City with an evening of non-stop boxing action.

Highlighted the HBO Boxing After Dark World Title Doubleheader is Lucian Bute defending his world super middleweight title in a highly-anticipated rematch against top contender Librado Andrade and the dangerous Ali Funeka taking on former Two-Division World Champion Joan Guzman in a vacant IBF lightweight title bout.

All of the bouts are set and the fighters are ready for battle, this Saturday, November 28 at the Pepsi Colisee in Quebec City, Canada and live on HBO’s “Boxing After Dark” at 10:00pm ET/PT.

Montreal’s local hero originally from Galati, Romania and IBF World Super Middleweight Champion Lucian Bute (24-0-0, 19 KO’s) and IBF number one ranked supper middleweight contender Librado Andrade (28-2-0, 21 KO’s) who is originally from Jesus Del Monte, Guanajuato, Mexico who now resides in La Habra, California, will do battle in a 12 round IBF Title Bout.

The mandatory bout will be a rematch of an explosive war that ended in controversy when the undefeated Bute barely survived a 12th round knockdown in the fight’s waning seconds to win a decision. Bute is ready to show why there should be no doubt he won their first fight, while Andrade is hungry to show why he feels he won the first fight by beating Bute this Saturday.

East London’s rugged and hard punching Ali Funeka (30-2-2, 25 KO’s) will face a tough test in a 12 round vacant IBF lightweight title bout against the undefeated and very experienced former Two-Time World Champion Joan Guzman (29-0, 17 KO’s) of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Funeka, the number one ranked IBF lightweight will face the number two ranked IBF lightweight in Guzman in an all out battle for supremacy in the very competitive lightweight division.

The undercard is packed with exciting bouts featuring some of boxing’s top undefeated prospects from around the world. Undefeated lightweight Pier Olivier Cote (8-0, 6 KO’s) of Charlesbourg, Canada will see action in a 10 round bout against St. John’s, Canada Jason Hayward (6-7-1, 2 KO’s). In a battle of undefeated middleweight prospects, Craig McEwan (16-0, 9 KO’s) of Edinburgh, Scotland and Chula Vista, California’s James Parison (12-0, 3 KO’s) will face off in an eight round bout.

Opening up the show will top undefeated prospect Keith Thurman (10-0, 10 KO’s) of Clearwater, Florida facing Montreal’s Leonardo Rojas (7-8-3, 2 KO’s) in a welterweight eight rounder as well as a six round welterweight bout between Saint-Emile, Canada’s Kevin Bizier (6-0, 3 KO’s) and Patrick Cape (6-8, 3 KO’s) of St. Louis, Minnesota.

Bute vs. Andrade II is presented by Golden Boy Promotions and InterBox, with Funeka vs. Guzman being presented in association with Gary Shaw Productions and Cedric Kushner’s Gotham Boxing. Both bouts will be held on Saturday, November 28, 2009 at the Colisee Pepsi in Quebec City, Canada and will air live on HBO’s “Boxing After Dark” beginning at 10:00pm ET/PT.