Lucian Bute vs. Edison Miranda

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I am not far from Miami....
You just gave me an idea :yep

 

From the last 2 videos of Bute and Miranda ...looks like pantera is the one thinking more at woman's b4 the fight ...showing us a girl's picture from his mobile phone and talking about how they love a well dressed man Bute on the other hand he's saying in the interview he gone away from Montreal to get rid of distractions :bbb

 

Edison might break bootys jaw too

 

4 videos / 32 minutes total!
http://www.ckac.com/boxe/nouvelles/vid-os-la-preparation-de-lucian-bute-2035583.html

The last video shows him in training.

 

Man, you are just making it easier and easier for me!
I got the address off the mailbox in video #2.
Now I know where to send the 'distractions'! :tong

 

Thanks :good
I think I'm gonna have a migraine trying to understand what they say in french :!:

 

That one made me laugh out loud.

 

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Didn't knew Stephane Larouche knows Spanish he is a polyglot . Thanks Stephane for remembering Romania :good
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ohhh nooo pantera already sent the girl to distract bute look at 1:02 1:23 ...he put her to walk around the gym to get his attention . LoL at the translator he got confused and was talking with Bute in Spanish :rofl

 

bute by kO.

 

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West, where do you find these videos?

 

on youtube ...it's kind of obvious

 

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:canada
Tribute to the Canadians boxing fans :good.

 

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Chicken Wings and Champions

He is arguably the most powerful man in Canadian boxing. He also knows a thing or two about chicken wings. Jean Bedard not only heads the powerful Montreal boxing promoter Interbox but is also CEO to the Cage aux Sports restaurant chain that boasts 49 resto-bars across the province of Quebec and boasts 67 million annually in sales. Fightnews had the privilege of sitting down with Bedard one-on-one to discuss boxing and his company’s involvement in it.

Question: Tell us how you first got involved with boxing.

Bedard: When Eric Lucas won his world championship, he became very interested in sponsorship and meeting with Cage au Sports. I decided to work with him and become his advisor, things had started to happen quickly once he became champion and there were so many things including media, sponsorship. I was the guy between him and his promoter. Once Interbox started to have financial problems and almost fell into bankruptcy, the founder Mr Muhlegg offered Eric the company and after thinking about it more I advised him to go forward in this project. He took his contract with him and there was Lucian Bute in the company and the way things were structured his money was able to go back to him. He was supposed to be promoter and I was supposed to be helping him but it is a lot of money to invest in the beginning. I don’t think it was a good idea at the time for Eric to take his money and risk it on promotion and try and build new champions because it is a big investment in the beginning. We decided that with Cage aux Sports and its synergy with boxing to go forward with the career of Lucian Bute, that was our plan at the beginning because Lucian was very talented and very charismatic and he finally became world champion in 2007. It was Stephane who was running almost everything at that time.

Once he became champion though everything was a bigger and bigger risk, new people you have to take care of, a lot of politics and I started getting more involved at that point. Now I like it, I think we did well with Lucian and I think we have a good plan for the future as well. I take care of the boxing and promotions and Stephane (Larouche) takes care of the boxers. That’s what Lucian wanted as well, he wanted his trainer 100% with him in boxing and training. He didn’t want him taking care of who’s on the undercard, selling tickets and collecting money. Because it is a bigger company now, Iv’e help structure it a little bit different. I have the resources in those activities and I think at this point we’re doing a good job.

Question: Before anything of this started, were you a boxing fan?

Bedard: Yeah, I always loved boxing. I’m not a specialist but what I like about boxing is that every night you’re going to get a result, you’ll have a winner and a loser, it’s like a seventh game in the playoffs or a Super Bowl. If at the end of the fight, if the fighter is not ready, you can’t say anything and make excuses, he has to be there. It’s very exciting, sometimes it has controversy. I always followed Gatti, Oscar De La Hoya, Trinidad . I’ve always been interested by boxing and always enjoyed watching it, live! When I know the result, no. I like to see it live.

Question: Coming from your area of expertise, accounting and restaurants, what has been the biggest challenge for you?

Bedard: There’s a lot of politics in boxing; regarding the rankings, regarding the contacts and certain channels. Why I think we’re considered a good boxing organization and have a good reputation is because we are professionals and we have a very great boxer. It gives us a lot of exposure because you get credibility once you’re able to bring your boxers to that level. I think the biggest challenge was the politics and the way it was a closed circle with a few promoters controlling almost ninety percent of the sport. We’re going there slowly and we don’t expect to be the biggest promoter in the world but we expect to give the fans the best shows that we can. What we’re doing right now, I think the entire community of boxing think that we’re doing a good job and for us I think that is important.

Question: You developed a business model with Lucian that was almost opposite to that of your Montreal rival GYM where you put all your eggs in one basket. It seems a very risky proposition though, we’re used to seeing who is coming next through the pipeline, knowing that if someone like Stephane Ouelett fails there is always an Eric Lucas to emerge from his shadow. It seems risky and with the first Andrade fight it came within ten seconds of being extremely risky. Can you comment a bit on the strategy.

Bedard: Yes, I would agree, but now that we have the guy out in front and pulling the train, financially we’re in good shape we can begin to invest at the other levels. Our company is not a boxing company, we’re still a restaurant business company which promotes big shows. Now at the level we are, working with Lucian, we have projects and we’ll announce soon what we have in mind. What we have with Lucian brings us across with other contacts and possibilities. We are now looking to become partners with a couple U.S. based promoters to be able to put our young kids on their cards. The problem I have with development is it is a lot of small shows. To do a small show in Repentigny is almost the same work as doing a show at the Bell Centre.

....everything is on Lucian’s shoulders and we know that. We understand that it is risky, but it was our plan"

Question: True, for some of your big shows all you have to do is announce tickets go on sale Tuesday and it gets sold out right away.

Bedard: Right, everything is there in terms of logistics and when you go to someplace small like Repentigny you have to build everything. So now I think we’ve found a way to build development with kids and be partners with promoters in the U.S. What’s important to us is put our kids on their shows and that fans here are able to see them perform. We’re working on a formula right now that will allow us to be able to be a little more aggressive in terms of development.

We know now that everything is on Lucian’s shoulders and we know that. We understand that it is risky, but it was our plan. I understand what you’re saying but it is where we want to be. It wasn’t like we were saying we need to be there for the next ten or twenty years, but we have a long term plan with Lucian and we can now become more involved with our young talent.

"If we were to lose a million a year I think we'd chose to stop the business..."

Question: I guess we saw the first glimpse of that with Pier-Olivier Cote fighting on television in the U.S. a couple of weeks ago.

Bedard: That’s the model. We’re looking at developing a series where every month we can have a show with one or two of our guys on it. That way our guys can be busy without just having to wait for the three or four big shows that we do each year.

Question: Unlike a lot of promoters, you’re a publicly traded company. Has there been any reaction from shareholders saying that you should be concentrating on selling chicken wings and not boxing?

Bedard: The way we see it right now is that boxing has a lot of synergy with what we’re doing. It’s probably the most popular sport to watch in our business, it’s not like curling. The way we see it for the past five years is it is more a marketing tool than a business. I can sponsor Saputo for soccer and the Montreal Canadiens but with Interbox we’re operating our sponsorship. We operate the sponsorship so we can choose the date, choose the logos, so that the way we feel about the business and it doesn’t hurt our bottom line. So that’s the most important thing with shareholders. If we were to lose a million a year I think we'd chose to stop the business, but now we’re in good shape.

Question: I don’t know if anyone can rival you right now, but do you consider yourself the most powerful man in Canadian boxing right now?

Bedard: I don’t know. I think I’ve built very good contacts and gained a lot of credibility in the last year, not only because we were on HBO but when we stepped in and saved the show between Bradley and Holt. That was a big moment because there were big promoters involved. Golden Boy was involved in that show, Top Rank was involved in that show, Gary Shaw was involved and they saw what we did at the last minute and it sold. Every time people do business with us I believe they are treated very well. I think we’re in a good position.

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Part 2:


Question: Talk about dealing with the major networks, Montreal had never seen Showtime or HBO until very recently.

Bedard: Here was a lot of strategy involved. It is not easy to bring in these channels and they’re not used to dealing with smaller promoters. Our strategy last year was that Golden Boy was thinking that we’d put a crazy bid for Andrade rematch. Our starategy though was to put a fair bid and that if they won it and went over, they’d have no choice but to bring HBO to the table. For us we were not losing if we lost the bid and that’s what happened. They were starting with a show that was costing 1.2 million and you can’t have a show like this without finding T.V. So suddenly we got a call that they had a date for HBO so we said that this was our chance, let’s make it happen and let’s impress the people and I think they were impressed. At the end of the night it was up to Lucian to finish the job and he did it very well. That’s why the day after I got a call and I think they were comfortable to work with us. They’ve seen us work, they see we have a plan, I think we achieved credibility.

Question: You must have surprised a few people by winning the purse bid for Bika and Brinkley.

Bedard: Yeah I think we surprised everybody. We came from the back but like I said, we have something to do with this fight. For us, we have two shows; we knew that these two guys don’t have huge money behind them so we took a chance. Now we’re in a very good position that we’re controlling Lucian’s mandatory fight which is unusual. It will be interesting to see who is going to fight Lucian next. So yeah, we had a lot of phone calls.

Question: So by winning this you’re promoting your next show…

Bedard: Yeah you can settle all the conditions for the next show so I think it was a good thing.

Question: What has been the reaction from those outside Quebec . You’ve must have opened a few eyes by bringing in 16,000 per show.

Bedard: People know now that we do huge live gates. They see a lot of things and we see people trying to position their boxers so they might have a chance to box here. They know that the money will be there. That’s a good problem. That’s why I receive phone calls from other big promoters trying to get deals done.

Question: Are you ever surprised at the antics of some promoters in this business?

Bedard: Oh yeah! When you deal with the level at where we are right now, you’re dealing with real businessmen. But there’s a certain level between the big promoter and guys just starting out you have some guys who have a way to work that I’m not comfortable with. You understand what I’m saying?

Question: I guess we should leave it at that..

Bedard: Yeah I think so…

Question: Thanks very much for your time

Bedard: No problem