Declan Taylor catches up IBF super middleweight champion James DeGale to discuss his first title defense against Canadian superstar Lucian Bute .
James DeGale MBE will defend his IBF World Super Middleweight title against former champion Lucian Bute at the Videotron Center in Quebec on November 28, live on Sky Sports in the UK and on SHOWTIME in the US and Canada.
DeGale has spent his career re-writing the boxing record books and now the IBF Super Middleweight champion is determined to become the universally recognised best 168lbs fighter in the world.
To do so he must get past the likes of Bute, a task which DeGale admits will be a supreme test in Canada, but one he also relishes.
In May, DeGale became the first Briton to add a World professional title to his Olympic gold medal, beating Andre Dirrell in Boston to capture the IBF crown.
Now, for the first defence of his title, the 29 year old travels again to the other side of the Atlantic.
Romanian-born Canadian Bute has other ideas and is gunning to win back his IBF belt in front of his own raucous supporters. Bute landed the crown in Montreal in 2007 at the Bell Center and held the crown over five years and nine successful defences before Carl Froch took the title from him in Nottingham in May 2012.
Tickets will be available from the Videotron Centre box office, on www.evenko.ca
, at GYM (514) 383-0666, at InterBox (450) 645-1077 or at Champion boxing club (514) 376-0930.
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