~#~ BUTE: 168 lbs; ANDRADE: 167.8 lbs; The fight is TOMORROW on Showtime! ~#~

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). In the Showtime co-feature, Ronald Hearns (19-0, 15 KOs) will take on fellow prospect Paul Clavette (14-1-1, 2 KOs) in a 10-round junior middleweight bout.

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, with Hearns v. Clavette, so the earliest the Bute v. Andrade fight could start is 45 minutes later, at a quarter to midnight ET/PT (on delay).

So, the time for the start of the card in:

-Mexico City: 5 p.m. on Friday
-US East and West Coast: 11 p.m. Friday night (on delay on the West Coast)
-Britain: 4 a.m. on Saturday morning
-Germany: 5 a.m. on Saturday morning
-Romania: 6 a.m. on Saturday morning
-Moscow: 7 a.m. on Saturday morning
-Philippines: 11 a.m. on Saturday morning
-Japan: 12 noon on Saturday
-Sydney (AUS): 2 p.m. on Saturday afternoon

In the US, the fight is on Showtime; in Canada, it's PPV. The rest of us we'll have to find a stream, I think.

:good

 

Yeah...there's a big hockey game on Saturday night, at Bell Centre(where the fight is held), it seems.

 

In an interview in French, Howard Grant, Andrade's trainer, said Andrade is a different and much improved fighter now compared to how he was in January, when Grant started training him. He warned Bute and everyone else that Andrade will shock everyone tomorrow night.

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He could be improved without inhibiting his style by, e.g.:

a. better choice of shots in certain situations, (e.g. better choice of strategy in the feeling-out phase of the fight, at the beginning of rounds and during less active parts of the rounds; better choice of strategy when the fight is kept by his opponent successfully on the outside)
b. better punching technique, in general
c. a bit more headmovement when the opponent uses the jab on the outside (Librado Andrade gets hit too much by soft jabs that he could fairly easily avoid and just make him look like a punching bag)
d. better dosing of effort with more emphasis on effective punching concentrated in larger bundles (more combinations) rather than just a continuous, steady stream of high workrate. (LA tends to throw too many shots that don't land or aren't that effective, making him look bad too)
e. better balance and footwork as he closes the gap (LA sometimes dives in too much, losing his balance; since he's not that fast, he doesn't achieve that much anyway)
f. better footwork as he cuts off the corner (LA tends to follow fighters through the ring too much)

...etc. such things might make a significant difference when they're all added up and none of them should inhibit or change his instinctive, high workrate, aggressive and very effective style of fighting.

But, yeah, we'll see tomorrow night.

 

He might not be unique, because many fighters, especially Eastern Europeans, just look at it as a job, for example, but he is quite unique for a Mexican American, at least by voicing such sentiments so often and so strongly, when the culture is all about trash-talk and being aggressive.