The Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada is known to UFC fans for hosting several memorable pay-per-view events, many of which were headlined by Georges St-Pierre. On June 8th, 2013, Adonis Stevenson had his breakthrough moment as a world boxing champion in front of a raucous crowd.
Stevenson challenged Chad Dawson for Dawson’s WBC light heavyweight title. In his previous bout, Dawson had a rather disastrous cut to 168 lbs to take on WBC super-middleweight champion Andre Ward and was stopped in ten rounds. He went back up to 175 lbs, where his last fight at that weight class saw him win his rematch with Bernard Hopkins.