Think Stevenson will win but I'll be supporting Bute. If only he can get his head screwed back on- then he has a chance. Froch done him good. edit: Great fight
If Bute's confidence is where it was after Johnson......but before going after a starving Froch with little mental prep............ I could see Bute blasting Stevenson out...... If he does get that title, expect Pascal to get a rematch and an @sskicking. Then, maybe, just maybe, he'll have the confidence for Kovalev. He'll still be getting KOd.....but at least he might come to fight.:think
Yes. Yes he does. He also has (had?) good power and decent skills. I'm not writing him off in this one anyway. Stevenson is favorite, and my pick, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if Bute stops him (assuming he can turn up- he hasn't since Froch beat the fighter out of him)
At present, based on past performances, Stevenson's chin can't really be compared with Bute's as being the same glass. Bute got KTFO, while Stevenson just got knocked down, mostly due to his stamina and poor defensive issues. He wasn't anywhere near the ***** address that Bute;s chin lives at. Anyway, in the past, weren't you one of the Bute fans who professed he was the greatest thing since the invention of sliced bread?
Give it up fanboy, Stevenson got stopped in round 2 by a guy coming 5 defeats. Stevenson has no chin. NONE. Bute was taking a far more empathetic pasting from a top level puncher.
In fairness for a man with a 42% KO rate and a losing record he's floored (and badly hurt) Ward, Kovalev and Stevenson. I mean he did what Froch couldn't right? If one win is debatable in Ward's career, that's the one. *Somebody please upload Kovalev 1 to youtube. I've wanted to see it for years.