By Bill Beacon, THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL - Renan St. Juste caught Dionisio Miranda coming in with a straight left to score a ninth round victory in a bout for the WBA Continental of Americas and NABA middleweight titles at the Bell Centre on Saturday night.
St. Juste (21-1-1), of Repentigny, Que., dropped the Colombian Miranda with the crushing shot and referee Michael Griffin elected to stop the scheduled 12-round fight at 1:27 of the ninth.
It had been a relatively uneventful bout in a strange atmosphere, with fans keeping one eye on the ring and the other on the Montreal Canadiens NHL playoff game in Washington, which most could see in the arena's private boxes.
The left-handed St. Juste won the then-vacant WBC Continental title in 2008 by stopping Mohammed Said of Brazil in the fifth round.
The 37-year-old St. Juste, a late-comer to the ring who only turned pro in 2003, had not fought since his last defence against Roberto Reuque on March 13, 2009.
It was the co-feature to the main event pitting IBF super-middleweight champion Lucian Bute (25-0) of Montreal against hard-hitting Edison Miranda (33-4, no relation to Dionisio) of Puerto Rico, which brought in the HBO television crew that included former heavyweight champ Lennox Lewis.
Bute is making the fifth defence of the title he won with an 11th round stoppage of Alejandro Berrio in 2007. He has since downed American veteran William Joppy and Fulgencio Zuniga and scored a pair of wins over Montreal-trained American Librado Andrade.
Pier-Olivier Cote (11-0) of Quebec City knocked down Hugo Pacheco (7-13-1) of Mexico twice before their scheduled six-round super-featherweight contest was stopped by the referee.
In a super-bantamweight bout, Sebastien Gauthier (18-2) of St. Jerome, Que., scored a knockdown in the seventh en route to a unanimous decision over Jason Heyward (6-9) of St. John's, N.L.
Francy N'Tetu (3-0) of Chicoutimi, Que., easily won all four rounds of super-middleweight bout over Juan Sanchez (3-6-1) of Halifax. In a women's match, Domina Olivo (8-5-1) handed a first loss to Nathalie Forget (2-1) of Montreal with a four-round unanimous decision.
Source: winnipegfreepress.com
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