Yves Ulysse Jr. vs. Gabriel Valenzuela - February 2, 2023

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YVES ULYSSE JR. TAKES ON GABRIEL VALENZUELA IN MONTREAL ON FEBRUARY 2

News reached The Ring that long-time junior welterweight contender Yves Ulysse Jr. will face Gabriel Valenzuela at the Montreal Casino, Montreal, Canada on February 2.

Ulysse had originally been scheduled to face the experienced Javier Molina before the fight was scratched.

Ulysse (22-2, 12 knockouts) turned professional in 2014. The Montreal-born Haitian won his first 14 fights before narrowly losing to fellow Canadian Steve Claggett (SD 10). Wins over unbeaten pair Cletus Seldin (UD 10) and Ernesto España (UD 10) righted the ship, coupled with a revenge win over Claggett (UD 10).

The 34-year-old surprisingly lost to Ismael Barroso (UD 12) but has since won four fights including an impressive stoppage over once-beaten compatriot Mathieu Germain (TKO 7).

Valenzuela (25-3-1, 15 KOs) won his first three fights before suffering back-to-back defeats against Luis Hernandez (TKO 4) and William Zepeda (UD 6). However, he reeled off 22 wins out of 23 contests, the lone blemish came in Canada against unbeaten Jessie Wilcox (D 8). During that time, the 28-year-old beat fringe contender Nery Saguilan (KO 4), trial horse Daniel Echeverria (UD 10) and most notably traveled to England to edge out hometown favorite Robbie Davies Jr. (MD 10).

The Guadalajara native gave then-unbeaten Montana Love (UD 12) all he could handle over 12 close rounds, losing by only two points on each scorecard last May on the undercard of Dmitry Bivol-Canelo Alvarez.

Valenzuela should provide Ulysse with a good test and show where Ulysse is and if he can compete at the highest levels in the talented 140-pound division.

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Full card

https://boxrec.com/en/event/866265

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Fight Week!!

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Wow!

Ulysse got stopped in 52 seconds.

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Erik Bazinyan stayed undefeated tonight in Montreal, winning a majority decision over Alantez Fox that had some questionable scoring, but not entirely in the way you might expect.

Judges had it 95-95 on one card, and then 98-92 on the other two, the latter both going to Bazinyan, of course. One could argue none of these were very good cards, that the even tally gave Fox too much credit and that the other two gave Bazinyan too much credit. The right guy did win and all that, but it seemed a relatively easy fight to score all in all.

Undercard results and highlights

Alexandre Gaumont TKO-1 Carlos Gallego: Gaumont is now 7-0 (5 KO). He’s a 27-year-old middleweight from Quebec. He got Gallego (8-5, 6 KO) with a good shot on the temple and dropped him, and Gallego just couldn’t recover.
Christopher Guerrero TKO-3 Edwin Villareal: Easy win for Guerrero (6-0, 2 KO), whose last two wins have been by stoppage. He was born in Mexico but lives in Montreal and reps as Canadian, so don’t worry, up to this point the Canadians on the show were all still unbeaten in their mismatches.

Avery Martin-Duval TKO-3 Eduardo Mota: Martin-Duval (9-0-1, 5 KO) is a 21-year-old prospect somewhere between featherweight and lightweight — I know there’s an actual division between those, but it could be any of the three! He walked Mota (7-2-1, 2 KO) onto a shot and dropped him in the third. Mota’s legs were gone, referee stopped it as he should have. Mota did not look as good as even his limited record might suggest.

Wilkens Mathieu TKO-1 Zsolt Birkas: A pro debut for 18-year-old Mathieu, who weighed in at 164 lbs for this fight and that indicates he’ll probably try to get to middleweight when he starts getting serious, unless he’s outgrown even the chance of making 160, so it could be super middleweight. He wanted to turn pro at 16 in Mexico, but was talked into staying as an amateur for a couple more years, and now here he is. He looked good, scored a couple knockdowns, the fight was stopped as it should have been. Birkas is now 0-1-1.

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97-93 Bazinyan on my card but I can accept 96-94.

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anyone got video of ulysse being stopped?

i know valenzuela is one tough hombre, with those mean mexican hands, but 52 seconds

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I had 96-94 Bazinyan.

Ulysses ko was wicked.
Early ko of the year candidate.

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anyone got video of ulysse being stopped?

i know valenzuela is one tough hombre, with those mean mexican hands, but 52 seconds

Shite angle.



Refs in the way

[margaret thatcher]

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Looks like Ulysse suffered a broken ankle.

Will need surgery.