Jean-Thenistor Pascal as we known better Jean Pascal was born October 28, 1982 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Jean Pascal is a canadian professional boxer and the current WBC, IBO and Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight Champion.
When Jean Pascal was 4 years , his mother (a nurse) and older brother (Nicholson Poulard) left Haiti for a better life and education. They settled in Laval, Quebec, just outside of Montreal. His father, a well-respected politician, remained in Haiti. Pascal played hockey and football, but watching his older brother become the Quebec boxing champion in 1996—Pascal, at 13 years of age, started to visit boxing gym "Club Champions St-Michel" once or twice every week. His first trainer was Sylvain Gagnon, who considered Pascal to be very talented. According to an interview from May 2005, Pascal's idol was Roy Jones Jr..
Jean Pascal made his professional debut on February 3, 2005, defeating Justin Hahn by second round technical knockout. After nine professional fights Pascal fought for the Canada National Super Middleweight title and the Quebec boxing Council (CQB) title in a national bout against Martin Desjardins, Winning the fight by KO 7. After two more fights Pascal bagged the TAB (Trans America Boxing) super middleweight title against Darnell Boone in his first ten round contest. Soon after Pascal fought Lucas Green Arias on September 30, 2006, at the Montreal Casino. The fight was for the vacant WBC Latino super middleweight title. Pascal sent him to the canvas with a flurry of punches in the sixth round. Arias got up for the final second of the round, but moments later slid off the stool in his corner, vigorously rubbing his head. He was unable to get up for the seventh round, making Pascal the winner. He was given oxygen in the ring and then was taken to the hospital on a stretcher. It was revealed that he suffered a subdural hematoma.
On November 18, 2006, Jean Pascal defeated Jermain Mackey by unanimous decision to win the WBO NABO super middleweight title. Pascal then defeated Lafarrell Bunteng by unanimous decision on March 10, 2007, Defending the NABO belt.
With his win over Bunteng, Jean Pascal fought for the NABO, NABA, and NABF national championships against Christian Cruz. This win solidified his reputation at the national level. After defeating Christian Cruz by technical knockout in the tenth round, Pascal fought former world title challenger Kingsley Ikeke on August 3, 2007. Pascal dominated Ikeke and won by unanimous decision. Later that year, he defeated Esteban Camou and Brian Norman.
His next fight took place on January 11, 2008 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida against Omar Pittman. Jean Pascal dropped Pittman with a left hook in round two and was in control for the first six rounds, but Pittman managed to hurt Pascal in rounds seven and eight. Pascal came back strong in the last two rounds and won by unanimous decision. After the fight with Pittman, Pascal got in a verbal conflict with Edison Miranda. There were brief talks of a possible fight between Pascal and Miranda for the summer of 2008 but it quickly fell apart.
Jean Pascal fought for the vacant WBC Super Middleweight title on December 6, 2008 at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham, England against unbeaten British fighter and top contender Carl Froch. Pascal held his own, with both men consistently tagging each other throughout the bout. In the end he was outpointed in a close exciting contest. The scorecards read 112-116 |111-117 | 110-118. Froch went on to defeat world class Jermain Taylor and top contender Andre Dirrell. After that fight Pascal fought Pablo Daniel Zamora Nievas on April 4, 2009 and won the fight by knockout in the fifth round.
After losing to Carl Froch and jumping back after knocking out Pablo Daniel Zamora Nievas, Pascal decided to go up in weight and fight as a light heavyweight.
He then went onto win the WBC light heavyweight title from Adrian Diaconu on June 19, 2009 at the Bell Centre in Montreal. About two months after the fight on August 12, 2009 the city of Laval honored Pascal.
Jean Pascal defended his newly crowned WBC light heavyweight title for the first time on September 25, 2009 against the WBC mandatory opponent, aged Italian veteran Silvio Branco. Pascal won the fight by a 10th round TKO. After knocking Branco down once in round 7 and twice in round 10.
Pascal's second title defense came on December 11, 2009 in a rematch against Adrian Diaconu. Just like the first fight against Diaconu the fight ended in another win by decision. Throughout the fight Pascal seemed to be having problems with his right arm, starting around round 5. However it did appear that his cutman was able to pop the shoulder back in before the start of round 11. Five days after the fight on December 16, 2009 Pascal went under arthroscopic surgery for his right shoulder. Doctors removed a bone chip and repaired the labrum in his shoulder.
At the end of 2009, Ring Magazine rated Pascal as the 65th best boxer in the world as part of their yearly Top One Hundred Boxers ranking. This was the first time Pascal had been featured on the list.
In June 2010, Jean Pascal re-signed a major multi-million dollar contract with promoter Groupe Yvon Michel. In which he was guaranteed $1,050,000 to defend his WBC light heavyweight title against Chad Dawson. As well as a another $1,500,000 guaranteed in the fight following Dawson, which happened to be Bernard Hopkins. The contract is the most lucrative ever given out to a boxer in Quebec boxing history. Pascal has become the first Canadian boxer to receive more than a million dollars for a fight in Canada.
For Pascal's third title defense he fought, Chad Dawson for his WBC light heavyweight title, Dawson's IBO light heavyweight title, and Ring Magazine's vacant light heavyweight title. Pascal dominated the early action and worked well in the mid rounds but seemed to tire late and get frequently caught by the favored Dawson. Pascal won the fight by a technical decision part way through the eleventh round due to a accidental headbut that caused a major cut over Dawson's right eye and was stopped by the ring side doctor. However Jean Pascal l easily won the fight according to the judge's scorecards with scores of 108-101 and 106-103.
Following Pascal's upset of Chad Dawson, 45-year old Bernard Hopkins was soon named his next opponent for him to defend his WBC, IBO, and Ring Magazine light heavyweight titles. Within the first 48 hours of tickets being on sale for Pascal/Hopkins more than 15,000 tickets were sold. The fight is expected to take place at the Colisée Pepsi in Quebec City on December 18, 2010. Pascal has spent forty days training in Miami for the fight.
At the end of 2010, Ring Magazine rated Jean Pascal as the 14th best boxer in the world as part of their yearly Top One Hundred Boxers ranking. Pascal moved up fifty one places on the list, compared to his 2009 ranking of 65. The jump in the rankings was directly attributed to Jean Pascal 's upset of Chad Dawson, since the list came out before Jean Pascal fought Bernard Hopkins.
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