Armenian boxer Eric Bezinian knocked out Canadian Stephen Butler.

Armenian boxer Eric Bezinian knocked out Canadian Stephen Butler.

Armenian boxer Eric Bezinian (33-1-1, 24 kg) knocked out Canadian Stephen Butler (38-7-1, 32 kg), reports Schrodinger Sport.

The fight at the second middleweight limit took place as part of Boxing Night in Montreal. At the end of the ninth round, Bazinyan knocked his opponent down, but the referee did not count the swing. However, in the next part of the fight, Eric forced Stephen to kneel. The Canadian managed to get up, but the referee decided to stop the fight, considering that he was not ready to continue. That defeat was Butler's second early in a row: he was stopped by Edgar Berlanga in July.

For Bazinian, it was the first fight since September 2024, when he was knocked out in the tenth round by Jaime Monguia.

Bazinian became the seventh boxer to defeat Butler by knockout or technical knockout in his 12-year professional career.