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| Chad Dawson Showed Masterful Defence and Crisp Punching |
The bout was the co-feature to Jean Pascal of Montreal's defence of his WBC light heavyweight title against ring veteran Bernard Hopkins, a rematch of their Dec. 18 draw in Quebec City.
With all the win, Dawson (30-1) earned a shot in the Pascal-Hopkins winner.
In his 1st fight below new trainer Emanuel Steward, it was a a lot sharper Dawson than the 1 who fought passively for many of an 11-round loss to Pascal a year ago.
The southpaw employed his considerable reach advantage over the stocky Diaconu (27-3), forcing him to lunge forward, missing repeatedly with his punches. Genuine to form, Diaconu stayed on the attack, but rarely penetrated Dawson's defence.
All three local judges scored it for the American within the battle of two former WBC champions. Claude Paquette had it 117-111, Benoit Roussel 118-110 and Jack Woodburn 116-112. The Canadian Press scored it 117-111.
The primary occasion was promoted by California based Golden Boy plus a fighter they stole from below the noses with the Montreal corporations, welterweight Michael Zewski (10-0), showed his class when he dropped American veteran Ruben Galvan having a slick left uppercut 1:44 in to the third round of their scheduled six round bout.
"It was a short, fast one," stated Zewski, who was spotted by Golden Boy at a globe amateur championship. "I shocked him, I guess, simply because I got him with far better shots than that earlier and he did not fall.
"He had very good defence, but I saw a little hole."
Galvan has not won in 10 bouts since 2006.
Kevin Bizier (15-0) of St-Emile, Que., was in a tough battle with Mauro Lucero (46-14-1) when the Mexican suffered a deep cut from an accidental headbutt early in the fifth round of their light middleweight clash. Lucero tried to go despite his face dripping with blood, but then was knocked out by a physique punch late inside the round.
Local heavyweight prospect Didier Bence improved to 2-0 when he stopped last-minute replacement opponent Dwayne Storey (4-7) of Moncton, N.B., 1:38 in to the second round of a four-rounder.
And heavyweight Oscar (Kaboom) Rivas (5-0), a Colombia based in Montreal, knocked down Zsolt Zathureczky (3-1) of Hungary 3 times in two:05 of the very first round ahead of it was stopped by referee Marlon B. Wright.
Other light heavyweight matches saw yet another Montreal-based Colombian, Eleider Alvarez (5-0) batter David Whittom (11-15-1) of Quebec City for 4 rounds to earn a unanimous decision and Nicholson Poulard (17-3), Pascal's half-brother, score a 10-round selection more than Frankie Santos (17-10-4) of Puerto Rico
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