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MONTREAL - A long-awaited showdown turned into a one-sided victory for Jean Pascal. The former light heavyweight champion dominated a tentative and powerless Lucian Bute en route to a unanimous decision victory on Saturday night in the clash of former world title holders from Montreal. The result disappointed many among the 20,479 at the Bell Centre, whose competing chants appeared to favour Bute by about a two-to-one margin. But the match billed as the biggest ever between two Canadians, which reportedly paid each fighter $2 million, belonged to 31-year-old Pascal from the outset. "Ive waited seven years for this," said Pascal (29-2-1). "When I go into the ring, I want to dominate. "That was my game plan — dominate all the time. Go in and out. To be vicious, active, explosive, and thats what I did from start to finish." The three judges agreed, giving scores of 117-110, 117-111 and 116-112. The Canadian Press gave Pascal every round except the 12th, when he backed into a corner and let Bute (31-2) swing away in a last gasp attempt for a knockout. Pascal took Butes minor NABF title and something called the WBC diamond belt, but more importantly, he settled who was best between the two fighters who rose to the top together in the same city without ever facing one another. It turned into a dud of a fight, with Bute often looking confused and unwilling to go on attack. "Jean Pascal was the better fighter and deserved to win," the 33-year-old Bute said. "Why I let the fight go like that I dont know. "Ill have to go over the fight many times with my team." If there is a silver lining for the Romanian-born Bute, it was that he stayed on his feet and his chin held up despite repeated blows from Pascal. His chin has been a concern since May 2012, when his five-year reign as IBF super-middleweight champion came to an end in a crushing loss in only five rounds to Carl Froch in England. Suddenly, a fighter who had always taken command in the ring looked fragile, and complaints that his record had been built against B-level opponents looked plausible. But after losing to Pascal, he made it clear his career is not finished. He even told the crowd he wants a rematch. "Its for you to say if I have a chin or not," he said. "I took a lot of punches and I didnt go down." He came out of it with a badly swollen left eye, and his nose was cut open in the 10th round. Pascal certainly surprised him. Instead of his usual all-out aggression in the early rounds, Pascal elected to hold back, counter with sharp rights when the southpaw Bute fired a shot, and then launch into quick-strike attacks near the end to make sure he won the rounds. He did it over and over and Bute never seemed to find an answer. "I followed my game plan to the letter," said Pascal. Pascal was on the rebound from losing his WBC light heavyweight belt in 2011 to wily veteran Bernard Hopkins, who waited as he blew himself out early and then dominated the later rounds. This time, Pascal added new blood to his entourage, including his boyhood idol Roy Jones Jr., and came back as a smarter fighter, although he still throws a lot of wild punches. He felt the bout was one-sided because of his tactics and execution and not, despite appearances, because Bute is still gun-shy from the Froch fight. Pascal expects to face another opponents before considering a rematch with Bute, but who that will be in a mystery. His contract with promoter Yvon Michel ended with the Bute bout, although he may re-sign and wants to stay in Montreal. While Pascal and Bute were recovering from their setbacks and fighting sparingly in the last two years, another Montreal fighter Adonis Stevenson jumped in to take the light heavyweight belt. A Pascal-Stevenson bout is unlikely for at least a year, his camp said. In the co-feature, heavyweights Mike Perez and Carlos Takam fought to a 10-round majority draw. The crowd booed as Perez (20-0-1) and Takam (28-1-1) spent most of the bout with their heads locked together, trading short range blows to the head and body. The southpaw Perez suffered a cut from a headbutt in the third round that hampered his performance. The Frenchman Takams best moment was late in the sixth when he rocked Perez with a right. Ringside judges scored it 96-94, 95-95 and 95-95. Perez, a Cuban living in Ireland, had Mago written on his trunks in honour of Russian Magomed Abdusalamov, whose career he ended with a 10-round victory on Nov. 2 in New York. Abdusalamov spent a month after the bout in an enduced coma and remains in a rehab centre unable to walk or talk. Eleider Alvarez (14-0) of Montreal was supposed to be in the co-feature against veteran Thomas Oosthuisen, but the South African pulled out with an injury. His replacement, Ottawas Andrew Gardiner (10-1), put on a gutsy show, winning some of the middle rounds, until he was stung at the end of the eighth and the gifted Colombian took back control. Alvarez got the decision 99-91, 96-93 and 97-93. At the end, the crowd cheered Gardiner and booed Alvarez, who had refused to touch gloves with his opponent after the bout after something was said to him from Gardiners corner. Welterweight Mikael Zewski (23-0) of Trois-Rivieres, Que., had a tough opponent in Krzysztof Szot (18-10-1) in that the Polish fighter had never been stopped or even knocked down. This time, Szot went down in the fifth and twice more in the seventh before the ref stopped the bout. Light middleweight Yves Ulysse (1-0) of Montreal showed his speed and attacking style as he won his pro debut by stopping Vango Tsirimokos (6-4) of Belgium in four rounds. Bantamweight Sebastien Gauthier (22-4-1) of St-Jerome, Que. battled to a majority draw with Javier Franco (20-11-3) of Mexico. Montreal-based Russian light heavyweight Artur Beterbiev (4-0) stopped French southpaw Gabriel Lecrosnier (16-26-3) in four rounds, and Colombian heavyweight Oscar Rivas (13-0) stopped lefty Shawn Cox of Trinidad (16-5) in three. Notes _ Lightweight Tony Luis (17-2) of Cornwall, Ont., was knocked down in the first round and went on to lose a 10-round unanimous decision to Ivan Redkach (16-0) of Ukraine on Friday night in Memphis. Scores were 99-90, 97-92 and 97-93. "I thought it was a much, much closer fight," said Luis. Adidas Superstar Herr Rea . -- Canadian ski cross star Marielle Thompson accomplished two goals in one race Saturday. 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Serge Ibaka returned to the Thunder lineup from a calf injury that was supposed to sideline him for the remainder of the postseason and the results were sparkling. ABBOTSFORD, B.C. -- Taylor Beck may have been the hero on Saturday, however it was goaltender Magnus Hellberg who deserved the credit for the Milwaukee Admirals. After setting up the tying goal late in the third period, Beck scored the winner in a shootout as the Admirals defeated the host Abbotsford Heat 2-1 in American Hockey League action Saturday. Hellberg stopped all four Abbotsford (2-1-1) shooters he faced to go with 26 saves in regulation. "Magnus has been unbelievable since the middle of last season and continued it this year," said Beck. "Hes the reason it was a 1-0 game for as long as it was. They had a lot of chances and he kept us in. We got one for him and were fortunate enough to get the win." Colton Sissons tied the game with less than six minutes to play in the third, helping Milwaukee (1-0-1) to the comeback win. Beck threw the puck toward the net and Sissons got just enough of a deflection that it curled under the pad of Abbotsford goaltender Rito Berra for his first AHL goal. "We had a draw play set up and it worked out perfect," said Beck. "I just tried to get it on net and Sissons got a great tip on it for his first goal, so I couldnt be happier for him too." Then Beck and Patrick Cehlin both beat Berra in the shootout. "The goalie stuck with me the whole way," said Beck. "I noticed a little hole, low glove, and was fortunate enough to put it in there." The game was scoreless through 40 minutes, a testament to the performance of both netminders. The Heat got onn the board 41 seconds into the third on the power play, with Roman Horak finishing off a pretty play.dddddddddddd Chad Bilins won a race for the puck, pushed it ahead to Max Reinhart at the face-off dot and he quickly set up Horak for a one-timer at the left side of the net. "It was a great play by Josh Jooris and Reinhart," said Horak. "Reinhart made a great pass across and I just tried to one-time it, and luckily it went in." Abbotsford kept its foot on the gas, carrying the flow of play for most of the third, but Milwaukee tied the game at 14:16. "Eventually we turned the tide in the third and had a nice play off a face-off to tie it up," said Admirals defenceman Joe Piskula. The Heat, who allowed a late lead to slip away in Fridays 3-2 overtime win over Milwaukee, knew they were too passive. "We felt it last night too, we just hung on at the end," said Heat head coach Troy Ward. "They made some good pushes, I thought, down the stretch last night, and they were (again) tonight." Milwaukee continued to press for another goal, but couldnt solve Berra, who made 27 saves in defeat. "(Berra) kept us in the game a lot of times," said Horak of his netminder, who has started all four games this year. "So far, hes been unbelievable here." Overtime saw just one shot between the two teams. NOTES: Ben Hanowski had points in each of his first three AHL games, but had his streak snapped Saturday. ... Abbotsford was 1 for 5 on the power play, Milwaukee went 0 for 5. ' ' '