I-Box trying to get this accreditation for the Marsh 19th fight! Since Brian Magee his no 2 in the WBC rankings there's a good chance that it will be accepted! If the WBC agree and Bute win the Silver belt it could lead to a Froch-Bute fight , without Bute loosing his IBF belt , since the IBF got a rule concerning unification fight!
Are both the WBC & WBA belts supposed to be at stake in the S6 final? Bute is facing the winner anyway, I thought all belts would then be at stake... for the overall winner to feast on Stieglitz and become lineal champ. I highly doubt that Bute gets to fight Froch in a unification bout before the end of the S6, if that's what you were implying. Look at how far Chavez Jr got with his silver belt... he's not facing Martinez anytime soon, at least not before the last quarter of 2011.
I think that Bute will drop his IBF belt if they force him to face Mendy. If he has the WBC silver belt, he's in line to regain a belt fast. Of course, if he wins against the super 6 winner, he'll have some more.
I think the IBF should be really stupid to force Bute to drop the belt with no1 as marketable as him left in the super-middleweight division. Maybe Kessler... but in the long run Bute is still better financially for them, and Kessler is still injured, you never know what's gonna happen. Right now Bute has an excuse to refuse Mendy but if another eliminator is gonna take place and Mendy is going to win it...
Sorry if i wan't clear enough i had a call while making my thread! If Bute fight for the WBC silver belt the IBF have to push back his mandatory (Mendy) without penalise him! if i undterstood corectly! Déjà bien nanti dun contrat avec le télédiffuseur américain Showtime, Interbox joue ses cartes pour continuer de positionner avantageusement Lucian Bute dans la catégorie des super-moyens et lamener vers un combat dunification. Le président Jean Bédard effectue des démarches pour que le gagnant du combat entre Bute et Brian Magee le 19 mars, obtienne la ceinture dargent de la WBC. Il compte sur le statut de MaGee, classé 2e aspirant au titre de la WBC, pour ainsi obtenir cette certification. La ceinture dargent, récemment implantée par la WBC, a sensiblement la même valeur que la ceinture intérimaire de la WBC. Cest dailleurs pour la ceinture dargent WBC des mi-moyens que Jo Jo Dan et Selcuk Aydin se sont affrontés lan dernier. En remportant ce titre mineur, Lucian Bute serait ainsi en bonne position pour réclamer un combat dunification avec le champion WBC, qui est actuellement Carl Froch, mais qui au cours des prochains mois pourrait être lun des 3 autres participants au tournoi du Super 6. Dailleurs Interbox mise sur les combats dunification pour éviter daffronter laspirant obligatoire de lIBF Jean-Paul Mendy. «LIBF a accordé à Lucian Bute une dérogation de 2 combats avant de procéder au combat de défense obligatoire» précise Monsieur Bédard. «La seule manière déviter cet adversaire est de sengager dans un combat dunification.» Rappelons que Mendy est devenu aspirant obligatoire à la suite de la disqualification de Sakio Bika, qui avait passé le k.-o. à Mendy lors du 1er round de leur duel éliminatoire pour le titre IBF des 168 livres. Interbox croit, à juste titre, que Mendy nest pas du calibre de Bute.
Bute love his IBF belt and want to keep it! i just hope that Mendy need to face somebody to keep his mandatory spot meeanwhile!
By the way did you guys figured out this is a Showtime thing. Forcing Froch to fight Bute if Froch wins the S6. Because he has always talked about Pascal, never about Bute , in contradiction with Ward who always said the winner needs to fight Bute.
Hey did I got it right: IBF has given Bute 2 fights off before he would be forced to fight Mendy? And the only way to get out of fighting Mendy is to go for a unification bout ?
Because Froch showed no intention to fight Bute if he wins the s6. Actually he said repeatedly that he wants Pascal. Showtime promised Bute that he will fight the best, once they'll be available.