To be fair to Bute the reason why he sat back beating garbage as you put it was because all the best fighters at super middle were involved in the Super 6 and he was frozen out. Now I agree there was no duck just a really bad choice from Ward to go on a 9 month holiday and telling Bute to fight Froch which resurrected Froch's career. It was a poor decision from Ward. It showed his lack of perception of the scene at the time and a lack of business acumen. Bute was clearly his top challenger and instead of facing him when all the attention was on him he decided to go on an extended break. That was a foolish move, the first of many to come.
Bute is labeled a bum because he fought who he could at the time of the Super Six. All the best guys were in the Super Six. Or are we now saying that the Kessler, Abe and Froch were all fighters who were limited in multiple departments? Kessler was old and injured, Abe is a midget and not hard to beat, same with Froch just neutralize his power a bit and he has nothing to fall back on. Plus Dirrell helped Ward out by exposing Abe and Froch. That was his biggest gift in the tournament. Bigger than fighting at home all the time.
TBH i think Bute could cause ward problems when he is rushing in with Bute landing that devastating body shot that he was known for , and since ward doesnt have immense power in his hands i dont see him doing the same number on bute as froch did, with that being said i dont see bute ever beating froch, styles makes fights and froch was too much for bute , just like the cobra dismantled arthur abraham flawlessly from round 1-12 without needing to get out of 2nd gear and on the other hand we saw how ward struggled with Arthur in the first half of the fight , Ward even resulted to several low blows and critical headbutts on abrahams previously shattered jaw/chin . If you remember the miranda fight arthur got his face totally shattered by headbutts combined with mirandas hayemakers, yet he saw the fight to the finish and won on points, abrahams jaw was litteraly hanging from his face and his mouth was looking like idk what . Im sure virgil and ward had this card up their sleeve to capitalise on that previous injury if they got in trouble with abraham and couldnt win purely on boxing.
Lol Shockmaster=delusional . andre ward is a true primadonna and crybaby B***h. A) SoC never took on a challenge outside his homecountry, outside his comfort zone without handpicked ref/officials AKA not a road warrior, all champions fought other champions outside their country in the past.- Makes his own rules ,B) ducking below the waistline excessively C) sucker punching when the ref steps in D) elbows to opponents face worse than mayweather E) ducking below the waistline to avoid getting hit and frustrating opponents F) headbutts like a battering ram (like the notorious leaping headbutts in the kessler/abraham fight) when we saw andre get his own medicine against bika it was hilarious seeing him cry after the fight complaining about the headbutts, double standards hypocrite. Froch is/was the real 168 champion,road warrior he took on all corners , and like i said he always comes back stronger in the rematch. Fx in the first kessler fight (in mikkel kessler backyard) I had froch winning and this is coming from a dane no bias (viking from denmark) it was a draw at best and froch wasnt even giving it all. In the rematch however we saw how froch took kessler apart with relative ease, keeping him at bay with the long jab troughout most of the fight and also hurting mikkel with venomous powershots. Same with groves Carl weathered the storm in the first fight and tko'd groves in the 9th. In the rematch froch annihilated groves without problems knocked him out colder than ice. Paddy ran for the antivenom when he saw how the cobra venomously knocked his fighter back into last century. Im sure froch would solve the ward puzzle if he got a rematch w a proper rereree that enforce the rules of boxing.Andre can drag dawson down no problem but face golovkin at a catchweight? Hell no . bring fighters to his comfort zone to get sh**ted on w the scorecards and frustrating them w dirty illegal tactics sure no problem but going to nottingham and rematch froch? Out of the question. He is a smalltime primadonna/diva fighting in small half empty arenas giving away free tickets to random people passing by on the street ,meanwhile froch sells out stadiums w 80.000+ spectators at the edge of their seats. Andre says he will do this and that but always prices himself out when it comes down to a challenge or simply doesnt pick up the phone when he is called out. I doubt we will even see him fight kovalev unless stevenson breaks several of his ribs fighting him first and ward sending his spies into kovalevs camp finding out exactly where the krusher is hurting so he can capitalise on that, not to mention ward will likely be juiced to the max on PED's . probably gonna pull out w a bogus injury unless they can slip some kind of poison into kovalevs system before the fight, causing the krusher to be a shell of his former self. He wont even do olympic style drug testing (VADA). Kinda like floyd with his paid off secret commission doing it for him Btw if andre is reading this i will gladly take you on anytime anywhere. (Just allow me a 3-6 month training camp) Im undefeated so probably its better then dragging paul smith up to 172 who already lost twice to shellcrab abraham '.;.;.` u ****ing poser Lets see if Virgin Cu**er and S.o.Cu*t has a response. Im sure his diet contains mainly squids and goatmeat since he did perfect his octopus billygoat style of fighting. forgot to mention ward had postponed the original super6 final fight date due to some bogus cut on his forehead (that he received in sparring while wearing full headgear??) and then he jump in the fight a few months later (with one broken hand?BS) when froch homefanbase no longer was in the country and his motivation wasnt anywhere near what we saw in the bute fight , i cant make up excuses but i can point to facts like fx the referee didnt enforce the rules of boxing and let ward grab like an octopus , punch on the breaks, elbowing, ducking below the waistline and all that other nonsense , if the fight was in UK then froch would have spanked wards cheating ass princess andrea would surely get point deductions for all of his excessive fouling.