LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Canadian Bermane Stiverne will make his first defense of his World Boxing Council heavyweight world title against American Deontay Wilder on January 17 in Las Vegas, organizers said Sunday.The hard-punching Stiverne won the vacant title with a sixth-round technical knockout of Chris Arreola on May 10, seizing the belt vacated by Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko when he stepped away from the ring in December of 2013.The Haitian-born Stiverne knocked Arreola down twice in the sixth before the referee stopped the contest in the first heavyweight world title fight on US soil since 2009.Twenty-one of the 36-year-old Stivernes …read more
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