4-Round Boxing News Brief (Latest on Cloud, Lemieux, and a championship double bill in Japan)

— IBF light heavyweight champ, Tavoris Cloud (23-0, 19 KOs) will make the fourth defense of his belt against long-time former WBO 175 lb. titlist, Zsolt Erdei (33-0, 18 KOs) December 31st at a location to be announced.

— Canadian middleweight prospect, David Lemieux (25-1, 24 KOs) will be fighting for the first time since his TKO 7 loss to Marco Antonio Rubio in April. He will be taking on former junior middleweight world titlist, Joachim Alcine (32-2-1, 19 KOs) at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on December 10.

— WBA super featherweight champion Takashi Uchiyama (17-0, 14 KOs) will defend against interim WBA titlist, Mexico’s Jorge Solis (40-3-2, 29 KOs) at the Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in Japan on December 31st.

— On the same December 31st Uchiyama-Solis undercard, WBA featherweight belt holder, Celestino Caballero (35-4, 23 KOs) will make the first defense of his title against Japan’s Satoshi Hosono (21-1, 15 KOs).

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