{"id":29802,"date":"2021-02-12T07:01:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T07:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=29802"},"modified":"2021-02-12T07:01:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T07:01:12","slug":"lemieux-talarek-headlines-april-17-quebec-city-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=29802","title":{"rendered":"Lemieux-Talarek headlines April 17 Quebec City show"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>Photo by Tom Hogan\/Golden Boy\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lemieux is 2-0 since crushing Spike O\u2019Sullivan in his last middleweight bout<\/p>\n<p>Power-punching former middleweight standout David Lemieux will attempt to continue his slow climb up the super middleweight rankings on April 17th when he takes on Poland\u2019s Robert Talarek in Quebec City. The card airs live on TVA Sports in Canada, though no USA network has yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p>Lemieux (42-4, 35 KO), known for both his obscene power and long, losing battle against the 160-pound limit, saw marquee fights with Tureano Johnson and John Ryder fall through before ultimately moving full-time to 168. There, he got off the canvas twice to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringtv.com\/586098-david-lemiuex-edges-maksym-bursak-by-split-decision-in-dramatic-battle\/\">scrape out a split decision over Max Bursak<\/a> in 2019, then returned to action last October with a fifth-round knockout of Francy Ntetu.<\/p>\n<p>Though his efforts earned him cushy spots in the WBA and IBF top 5s, he\u2019s not diving into that deep end quite yet.<\/p>\n<p>Talarek (24-13-3, 16 KO) has a rather misleading record, as he\u2019s 11-1-1 since a 2016 loss to John Ryder and was only ever stopped by Liam Smith in 2015. He\u2019s also a fair bit taller and lengthier than Lemieux, so while Lemieux is the A-side for a reason, he shouldn\u2019t get too cocky.<\/p>\n<p>The co-feature pits local big man Simon Kean (19-1, 18 KO) against Edmonton\u2019s Stan Surmacz. Kean took 10 rounds to put away a 43-year-old Siarhei Liakhovich in 2019, which should give you a decent idea of his upside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time over a year on specialized television channel, fans will be able to see a boxing gala featuring local boxers and quality bouts featuring some of their favorites including David Lemieux and Simon Kean. This evening, which promises to be rich in action, reinforces our commitment and that of Eye of the Tiger Management\u2019s to present quality boxing to fans everywhere in Quebec, \u201csaid TVA Sports General Manager Louis-Philippe Neveu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Tom Hogan\/Golden Boy\/Getty Images Lemieux is 2-0 since crushing Spike O\u2019Sullivan in his last middleweight bout Power-punching former middleweight standout David Lemieux will attempt to continue his slow climb up the super middleweight rankings on April 17th when he takes on Poland\u2019s Robert Talarek in Quebec City. The card airs live on TVA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}