Lucian Bute vs. Edison Miranda

Hey Snakeface and southpaw jab, what do youthink now of Bute?

 

impressive. can mix it up....got tricks in the bag....

he needs to keep busy and have another fight to keep busy and then take on the winner of the super 6.

kelly pavlik needs to junk his corner.

Bute is smart..and he can pack a wallop

 

miranda was like..."oh....you're going to take lead of this dance"?

 

good job.

first two heart bets i lost on....miranda and pav.
same as when i hope for jones...

 

Wow shocker, Miranda got sparked yet again.

He's becoming a journeyman pretty quickly.

 

Miranda went 12 rounds vs. Ward. Bute stopped him in the 3rd round. Bute will knock SOB out.

 

Not journeyman, gatekeeper. Bring on Stieglitz-Miranda. I know Miranda does not earn another titleshot but this would be a fantastic clash of styles and would be a great and very, very entertaining fight. I think Stieglitz would beat him by midround/late TKO but Miranda has a good chance.

 

So much for Goossen polishing a turd.

Some people really thought Miranda had turned over a new leaf and begun to emerge as a boxer-puncher reborn based on a dominant win over...wait for it...Francisco Sierra. :rofl

Bute dominated, as expected - and showed exactly what class of fighter Miranda is and always will be.

During the live fight, it appeared Bute was apprehensive the first two rounds (leading me to think at the time that he may have been hurt early with something)...but upon review it was just patience. He was toying with Edison, letting him get comfortable advancing behind a jab and only throwing out his infrequent counter shots with partial power (an old Foreman trick).

That uppercut was a thing of vicious beauty.

My girlfriend initially thought the stoppage was sketchy, but after glaring with a glare so nasty it almost put me on the couch for a week (also, the phrase "******ed troll" may have reflexively slipped out of my mouth) I explained that when you beat the count at eight and then wobble several feet with a glazed-over look and don't protest being grabbed and waved off in the least bit, it isn't a sketchy stoppage.

 

I was there live it was a great short fight haha.

Miranda was so cocky..He showboated a little pretending he wasn't getting hurt and 20 seconds later he was hitting the canvas.

 

If someone forgot to vote, he can do it now...

 

I'm still unsure...

 

We're joking but I think some guys did vote today...

 

A little thought I had

What's next for Bute? .... well July 25 will be his mandatory in Bucharest, Romania against the Bika - Brinkley eliminator winner.
Second fight will highly probably NOT take place higher than 170lb. Bute and his trainer S. Larouch say he doesn't want to leave the SMW division yet, there are at least 5 or 6 fighters worthy to battle at this weight class. As boxers get older (Bute is 30) it gets harder to loose the weight, so no passing to 175lb yet. Chad Dawson (27 yo) should come down from his ivory tower to fight Bute, if he wants to face him soon. Pascal would do it for sure ... he is young as well and was SMW a year ago. If not let them take a chill pill and Bute will climb to LHW in 2-3 years from now, after cleaning the floor with the Supper Sicks. (Yumm, yumm ... what a tasty meal).
Ok, lets get back to the future opposition... The super six guys that wont make the finals, could be a decent workout for Bute. He could invite them for sparring for a bigger fight or face them if they refuse .
Robert Stieglitz could be an interesting target as well. He has a belt and is not worthy of it.... so .... get your ass into the ring... In the last years, Bute was not very active... 5 fights in 25 months. ( http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hum...3046&cat=boxer ) So if he's getting ready for the Supper Sicks Sundae Cherry, might as well fight more often to stay sharp. He could do Miranda, Bika and Stieglitz by the end of the hurricane season... Who knows they might even name one after him...
Bernard, Bernard, Bernard ... what an awesome career ... why, oh tell me why do you wanna end up like the most respected Ali.
PREDICTION: if Bute - B-Hop happens, Berny will suffer his first and last KTFO of his career... Even though ppl don't really want to see this fight ... HBO is gonna present it if it will come to it! And this time, ppl will go to see Bute not Hopkins, (if this happens it will be in Autumn '10 in Montreal), this is why the fight might take place.
In any way... who ever the F#$% Lucian is gonna fight in the next year and a half or so... it will not bring him recognition and full respect from the American and European boxing fans. Nobody will be hot enough, world class enough, or legendary enough to prove his supremacy, which don't get me wrong, I'm questioning myself!!! Bute is a top 3 SMW, any way u put it. At this level, styles make fights,we all know that ... But I have some questions for you ...

How important is adaptability in a boxer's arsenal ? IMO determining a boxer's capacity to adapt during a fight to his opponent's fight style is a great path to knowing the outcome of the battle. Who are the most adaptable boxers at SMW during the last 10 - 15 years or more? What were they doing right? Can we compare them to the current SMWs? Food for thought!

 

Yeah...Bute by KO used to be in the low three hundreds. :yep

 

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