The fight between Jean Pascal and Michal Cieslak has been officially announced for June 28, confirming an earlier report from April.
Pascal-Cieslak will headline at Place Bell in Laval, Quebec, Canada, just outside of the city of Montreal. The winner will be the WBC’s interim cruiserweight titleholder.
Poland’s Cieslak, 27-2 (21 KOs), was originally supposed to face Yamil Peralta for the interim belt, but that fight failed to come to fruition. And so the WBC has sanctioned a bout between the 36-year-old Cieslak, ranked fifth, and Pascal, who had been unrated – not in the WBC’s top 15 and not even in its top 40 – until conveniently entering the rankings at 10th in the WBC’s update on May 12.
Pascal, 37-7-1 (21 KOs) and of Canada, is a former lineal light-heavyweight champion. The 42 year old had one fight at cruiserweight in 2018 and then didn’t return to the weight class until September, when he scored a 10th-round knockout .
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