Former champion Lemieux looks to get back in world title picture against Stevens
MONTREAL — Former middleweight champion David Lemieux is set to face American Curtis Stevens in March in a bout that was supposed to have happened three years ago.
The two brawlers were to have been the co-feature to a light heavyweight title unification bout between Adonis Stevenson of Montreal and Russian star Sergey Kovalev, but when the main event fell though in a promoter’s dispute, so did Lemieux-Stevens.
Now the two will settle their differences March 11 at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, N.Y.
“Back in January, 2014 there was a little dispute between (Stevenson’s promoter) Yvon Michel and me,” Stevens’ promoter Kathy Duva said Thursday. “The co-feature was done, negotiated any everything. We had literally negotiated with HBO how much they were going to pay for that fight, but it never happened.