Bute eyeing New York invasion [FONT=Arial Narrow, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT]By Dave Spencer / Fightnews Canada After establishing himself as a star in both his native Romania and his adopted homeland of Canada, IBF super-middleweight champion Lucian Bute plans to take on New York for 2012 figuring if he can make it there, he can make it anywhere. Lucian definitely wants to fight in the U.S. in 2012, and we will help him the best way we can to make it happen, said Butes promoter Jean Bedard of Interbox who will be in the Big Apple this weekend, not only to take in the Cotto-Margarito fight but also to plan out logistics for a possible fight there for his undefeated 168-pounder. One of his goals in 2011 was to fight in Romania but like I told him before he left to go home, I dont think well have an offer to fight in the U.S. from another promoter, in the past seven years Ive only received one offer to fight outside Canada. Given the lack of invitations, Bedard feels that Interbox will have to be actively involved in any promotion south of Canadian border. We will probably have to be involved in the promotion of that fight, I dont know how exactly, but thats why Im going to New York this weekend. To see how things are going, how it works, see the venue, see the smaller theatre in Madison Square Gardens. I want to find out all the details so I have an idea of all the opportunities that might exist there. Theres a big Romanian community that exists in New York and its not that far from the present fan base of Lucian. Well go there but I think well have to be involved and not wait for an offer from another promoter. Theres a good buzz in New York right now for boxing and thats what I want to see in person. Fighting there you get more media exposure than you would in Canada and for the broadcaster its easier to promote and broadcast as well. We believe that now is the time although you never know in boxing. We believe its the best place because its close to our main market so right now its perfect. Bedard is looking at a possible April date and if he gets his wish, against the eventual winner of Showtimes Super-Six tournament that sees its conclusion on December 17th between Andre Ward and Carl Froch. If its Froch its probably best if we do it on neutral territory, it might be the better way to do it said Bedard. Its probably the same if its Ward, he probably wont want to come to here in Canada. Thats why some place like New York makes sense. Weve been very focused on fighting the winner for the past two years, we want to fight the winner of the Super-Six and thats where we are right now. Were not looking at a plan B right now, were focussed on December 17th and from there were going to try and fight the winner, and if thats not the case, maybe the loser might be a good opponent. One anomaly for Interbox is that one of its other promoted super-middleweights, Renan St-Juste might actually get a crack at the winner before Bute. St-Juste takes on Anthony Dirrell in a fight tonight (Friday) in a bout that is for the mandatory challenger for the WBC belt currently held by Ward. They (the winner) might have to fight Renan before Lucian gets to him, thats the funny part, you know more than me that it never is a straight line in boxing.
I'll believe it when it happens, facts are Lucy Bute is a certified hometown hero who's got a disgraceful glass jaw as proven by the 300 count he got vs Andrade.
chump change...if he wants to fight the winner of the 6's, he can earn it by beating a couple of it's participants first
To Pity the fool: there are 2 million posts like this about Bute. That may explain why we are "sensitive" sometimes.
Fact is you don't know the difference of boxing beeing hurt by a shot to the head or simply extreme fatigue. Go see the fight because i am sure that you have seen just the 12th round, and you will see that in the 8 th round Bute was dead tired (sick before the fight) His legs were weak as hell and Andrade did not landed anything at that time In the 12th, a five year old girl would have hurt him badly. Bute had never been tired before or after that fight.
so Bute already ducking the finals winner? using some inferior stablemate as an excuse to keep the S6 winner away from him? and what happened to fighting Froch in Nottingham/England, didn't they say they would after the Johnson fight?
He never got hurt neither. ESB is the only place where a glass jaw can be hit full force by a big hitter without a problem and still be a glass jaw. We'll have to redefine the modern physics laws.
Yeah and Johnson was supposed to destroy Bute.......maybe you should just STFU http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=341334 ****in epic failure!!
fair point but now since he proved himself as one of the best at that weight by dominating Johnson don't you want to see him fight Ward/Froch/Kessler/Dirrell? Do you support the idea of matching the S6 winner with (who?) St. Juste (if he beats lil Dirrell) rather than with Bute? :tired
No ****ing way, Bute had to wait for damn too long to fight the best guy of the S6. Bring Froch or Ward asap so we could settle things and have the real picture on who's # 1.