Who should Lucian Bute fight next?

Anyone with a pulse.

 

Outside of Quebec.

 

And Romania.

 

the field is really so limited right now, maybe he could draw up a middleweight like Geale or Andy Lee

the 168 division is very tied up at the moment

 

Jesus Gonzales
Dimitri Sartison

 

Well I think the soonest he would fight is after S6 anyway, so I'd say he should just fight Froch or Ward next.

 

are there rumors about him fighting some bum again or whats the point of the thread?

 

He said he wants to fight the winner of the Super Six.

If not for Ward's injury delaying the final, the timing would be perfect. But now he may have to wait a couple of months more.

Too bad Andre Direll isn't ready, that would be an interesting matchup.

 

Already defeated Bika too :deal

For some reason, Andrade faces Don George in an eliminator December 17. Lets hope George win.

Bute - Andrade III :dead

 

I think the point is, no decent fighter at 168 is avail for a spring fight (Mar/Apr) against Bute.

Allan Green or even JT might be, Sartison might as well. Both Green & Sartison refused to fight Bute in the past, I don't see why they would agree now. Green declined an undisclosed amount which Joppy took for Bute's first defence, and Sartison declined $400K guaranteed when Interbox & Showtime were looking around last year (ended up with Magee as Showtime's preference).

Might also be looking at an S6 finale rematch in the future, and Kessler-Stieglitz is in April.

Bute-Green in Denmark on the Kessler-Stieglitz card? :rofl

 

Dawson would travel to Canada and certainly would want the payday that Bute's popularity could provide. Lucian's a BIG SMW .. coming in for a one off at 175 would not be problematic and a return to SMW afterwards would be no different than what he deals with for EVERY fight. It is a fight a confident champion could easily grab if he wanted to test himself at the highest level and demonstrate to his fans his quality. Or, he could just find some bum, old man, or other mediocrity as he kills time ... no reason to have challenging risky fights in an athletic career, right?

 

Larouche & Bute already said Bute's body is being slowly brought up to LHW, and that Bute won't fight LHW's before he's cleaned up SMW.

 

My little sister is available. - but she might be to much for him.