Mormeck Decisions Bell

LEVALLOIS-PERRET, France—If cruiserweight titans Jean-Marc Mormeck and O’Neil “Supernova” Bell have taught us anything in their two meetings in just over 14 months, it’s probably that they would exchange power shots toe to toe from bell to bell if they fought each other 10 times in a row.

The difference on Saturday was Mormeck was able to weather Bell’s late surge to finish the fight and win a close, unanimous decision in front of a raucous sellout crowd of 4,000 at the Palais des Sports Marcel Cerdan in Levallois-Perret, France. The Frenchman won back the World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association cruiserweight titles he surrendered to Bell in their first fight. Mormeck (33-3, 22 KOs), from Point-a-Pitre, Guadalupe, France, now residing in Rosny-sous-Bois, had been the first French fighter to become a unified world champion, and he said he felt tremendous pressure attempting to regain the titles in his home country. continue