Ex-middleweight champ David Lemieux can’t make weight for Achour bout
QUEBEC — Former world middleweight champion David Lemieux’s bout with Karim Achour of France will go ahead even if the Montreal boxer failed to make the 160-pound weight limit.
Lemieux (38-4) came in two pounds overweight at Friday’s weigh-in.
He will cede 20 per cent of his purse to Achour (26-4-3) and two minor belts — the WBC international and WBC Francophone titles — will not be in play as scheduled when they meet Saturday night at the Centre Videotron. Achour weighed in at 159 pounds.
The amount of Lemieux’s purse was not disclosed.