Lucian Bute's title defenses

Bute is the real deal, love this guys skills, he is even improving his right hook against Johnson was a huge weapon, I see Froch eating big left uppercuts and right hooks all night, can't see how Froch beats Bute he is too slow.

 

Well, Librado Andrade managed to.. why not Froch who is a proven top fighter at SMW? :smoke

 

Are you predicting a Froch win solely based on R12 of Bute-Andrade I? ..come on, are you?

 

Not at all, I think Froch-Bute would be a close, competetive fight. :good

But, the notion that Froch can't beat him cracks me up.

 

It seems the notion that Bute can KO Froch has another kind of effect on you.

 

You kind of say who is good and bad around here, that how you start most of your posts.

"The Bute fans are the worst"
"Quality post mate"

 

Everyone can get knocked out, but the likelyhood of Froch being knocked out by anyone at SMW is very low, let alone against Lucian Bute who doesn't physically impose himself on fighters he's technically mastered (Glen Johnson for example).

 

That was a long long time ago now, Bute will win this fight and quite comfortably for me, and I am huge Froch fan.

 

Kessler rattled Froch in R5 of their fight, and Bute's punching power is up there with if not above Kessler's. We don't know that Froch takes powerful body shots well.

The GJ fight is the only one in recent years where Bute didn't get the KO, although he injured his left hand (just like Ward!) during the fight and still opened up in the 10th & 11th rounds.

Bute hates Froch, and vice-versa. This ain't no sparring partner party. :hey

 

Fair enough, personally I have no problem with Bute, I think he is a very good fighter and I have him vs Froch 50/50 but Johnson looked **** in that fight you could kinda tell he was fighting a guy who was his friend.

 

Go back and watch Kessler-Froch and tell me Froch didn't take punches to the body, please.


The Bute-Johnson fight was a boring dudd with Glen Johnson quite happily taking the role of a turtling fighter happy with a payday. And Bute didn't push for no knockout, far from it...

 

Magee was also green. Very much reckless on offense compared to the wary Magee who fought Bute.

I'm sure you're well aware that Tatevosyan got a 2 weeks notice for the Froch fight.

 

So you agree that Froch was rattled in R5 of the fight?

Kessler doesn't throw bombs to the body the way Bute does, in fact I don't recall Kessler landing meaningful power shots to Froch's body in the fight. Feel free to give me a round ballpark I could watch.

Bute opened up in the 10th & 11th with a swollen left hand, that's all that matters. Don't tell me Bute wouldn't push for the KO vs Froch, haha.