Some people make great sportsmen – but that doesn’t necessarily make them a fighter, you can be both, or not. A fighter wins. A fighter just "goes" for it. Bute is not a natural born fighter he is a fighter who had talent had some athleticism had some tools, but lacks the instinct lacks the bad Intentions quoting JT nickname. He is a fighter who's been made with hard work and endless hours of training repeating the techniques and making them look like he had them all along. But he didn't. He rose himself in high regard in boxing in rankings in boxing experts and specialists opinion more by hard work then talent alone. So I believe Bute is more of a Boxer-Puncher then a Slick Southpaw but he was trained and built like a Slick Southpaw. His team from Interbox have trained him to have great head-movement have trained his footwork and made him into a Power Counter-puncher. They trained his jab and a pretty decent one but not top notch, like you need at elite level. The elite level Froch was on. I underestimated him. Froch took everything out of him with so little,just to little, so little that's painful for a fan to admit, only one good punch.He hurt him with one good punch. Bute doesn't have a glass chin but he gets hurt to easily by top lvl power. Froch took his footwork, vital to his defense, probably took some of his power as well when putting the hurt on him, legs tend to go and you don't have the same reflexes and snap to your punches. Bute was stripped of everything he's learned in boxing, he was left with his natural instincts with some of his power the natural punching power he was born with and the uppercut who he'll never forget because is one of the few thing hes had all along, from the begging it's is his own weapon and not built into him, forced into him by endless hours of training. Later when hurt but still hoping still trying still fighting, cuz he was The Champion and cuz he isn't a quiter, when he was trying to recover and re-enter the zone where he acts like the boxer he been bred to be as a pro Froch took his confidence to. When he took his best shot his uppercut to the body, blocked it and smiled back at him as in "This is all what you've got". After that moment I think Bute was left with nothing more then his surviving instinct, he didn't had the animal instinct to strike back that probably Froch put in the same situation would of had. He's going for the kill you need to strike back and try to save yourself, get back in the fight!Bute's personality is not like that he's not a natural born fighter, he is a calm friendly non-aggressive type of guy in his day by day life. Froch has stripped him of everything and left him with his core, his soul, and Bute couldn't find the fighter in him anymore because he is not a natural born fighter. Now his and his team big mistake was that they didn't had anything good enough to keep Froch at bay at distance a distance that seems so vital for Bute to unleash his best punches, and he didn't take the initiative to go on attack if he could not defend well. Some say that Bute doesn't have any defense, but he does, only that Froch took it all away with his first hurting punch. His footwork and reflexes were not the same. His footwork is not natural it is trained, he was left with limited reflexes he used on the ropes with body movement trying to survive. The fighting style that his trainer Larouche imbedded into him it's not bad not bad at all the bad thing is that He forgot it all because it's not natural, it is not him. Him being more of a boxer-puncher. Bute was reduced to the natural boxer-puncher but an inexperienced one cuz he didn't fight like that much. He neded to ramain calm and self-contained to impoze the style his been bread into since becoming pro. Froch took this victory with a shared of his soul. I'm a Bute fan and I hope he takes a rematch in Canada and fix the mistakes he did in this fight. And even if he loses again, at least he'll do it like the boxer his been trained to be. Not the amateur I've seen in Nottingham.
after what you wrote in the first several paragraphs, which is about right, why do you want to see a rematch? Is it a matter of fixing a few mistakes? Or it it something deeper, that Bute lacks and cannot be trained in to him. That seemed to be your message.
He was a bum an overprotected quebec fighter seriously when he was matched against Mendy i puked plus Andrade already koyed him the ref saved his ass, he has no chin as well.
It's defending his chin better is taking the center of the ring not letting Froch moping the floor with him. Is becoming a boxer-puncher when he chooses to, it's being more calm, coming with something that keeps Forch at distance for some time and having something to give when he jumps in. It's having something at all, and not be stripped of everything you've learned in boxing, is Having a fight to show for, and not being defeated before even getting into the fight properly, It's actually boxing a bit with your opponent. Bute didn't show me anything in the Froch fight, I wanna see something anything from him... In a Froch fight.
Didnt read and dont care that much. First time bute faced an elite super mw and he got his ass kicked. He was a wannabe canadian that was protected by the french pussies
Agreed although Froch is average as well his defense is to block punches with his head man that Bute was really a nobody lol
If he was a nobody Bika should have exposed him Glen Johnson should had like he did with Green, Andrade second time also like the end of the first fight.
location has nothing to do with it a green Pascal when 12 hard rounds vs Froch in his own backyard even hurt Froch bute was a bum deal with it nuthuggers.
I agree with a lot of what you said. Very Teddy Atlas like. He didn't seem ready to fight. He was standing awkwardly and looking at the camera during the ring introductions which I though was odd. I don't see how a rematch would change anything though. You are talking about the instinct and mentality of fighter which are intangible strengths- or in Bute's case weaknesses. I think Froch sensed this too and attacked it early.