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The principal fighters competing televised bouts Saturday night on Showtime made weight made weight on their first attempts Friday at Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.
In the main event of Showtime Championship Boxing tripleheader, on Showtime at, 9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast, exciting knockout specialist and 2013 Fighter of the Year, Adonis “Superman” Stevenson (23-1-0, 20 KOs), of Montreal, will make his network debut when he defends his WBC light heavyweight title for a third time when he meets Andrzej “The Polish Prince” Fonfara (25-2-0, 15 KOs), of Chicago by way of Warsaw, Poland.
Stevenson has won his last 10 fights by knockout. Fonfara has won 15 in a row, 12 inside the distance, and has never been defeated as a light heavyweight.
In co-featured fights, power-punching Montreal middleweight David Lemieux (31-2, 29 KOs) meets battle-tested Fernando Guerrero (26-2, 19 KOs) of Salisbury, Md., in a 12-rounder for the vacant NABF 160-pound crown, and unbeaten rising star Jermell “Ironman” Charlo (23-0, 11 KOs), of Houston, takes on Japan’s Charlie Ohta (24-1-1, 16 KOs), of New York, in a 12-round collision of world-ranked junior middleweights. Charlo is ranked No. 5, Ohta No. 9.
WBC Light Heavyweight Championship, 12 rounds:
Adonis Stevenson: 173.5 lb
Andrzej Fonfara: 174.5 lb
NABF Middleweight Championship, 12 rounds:
David Lemieux: 159.5 lb
Fernando Guerrero: 159 lb
Light Middleweights, 12 rounds:
Jermell Charlo: 153.75 lb
Charlie Ohta: 153 lb
