~~~The Lightning Lucian Bute Battleship~~~

Right on, about the first part. Dont expect Bute to fight Kessler soon.
The money (interest) will be better down the road.
Besides i firmly believe that Kessler will go hunting for one of the americans if HBO will support it.
Furthermore will Calzaghes belts probably be vacated. There will be plenty of chunks in the ocean at 168.

Let Bute have his time. Just becoming a champ is a wonderfull timespan. Kessler had Mundine, Lucas, Beyer & andrade before stepping up to elitelevel.

Take on respectable level, but give yourself time, you will get there eventually.

 

There are many clues that points toward different opponents.

1- The rankings thing. Which would only matter if it meant it would be someone who's not ranked in the top15 yet. That would be Bozic who will be ranked in the top15 after his next fight. He's fighting for some minor IBF title that will pretty much automaticly get him a place in the top15.

2- Second clue is the date at which they said they would announce the opponent. Which indicates they need to wait for the guy to fight and win his next fight. This could mean Sanavia -vs- Haussler.

3- It could also mean Andrade who, according to Pantera2000, is negociating with Interbox for a shot at Bute and has a fight scheduled for december 8th.

In other words:

1- Bozic
2- Sanavia-Haussler winner
3- Andrade

 

I want him to fight Andrade. That fight would add soooo much perspective and tension to a future Kessler match-up.

This fight would, as was the case with Kessler make Bute look very good. He is, after some spoiling match-ups, in need of a goodlooking fight.

Still a hard fight though, I wouldn`t be to negative towards an easier first one for Bute.

 

Sanavia is a former 168lbs WBC world champion and has a win over Markus Beyer. He is also the current European Champion at 168lbs. All these things are marketable for a potentiel fight in Montreal.

 

Thank you Decebel.

Sound like a great plan. Good promoting is foremost about doing things in the right order for your fighter. Protect him, I think throwing Bute into the fights that makes me salivate, is for now a bridge to far.

I know its unbearable, just like waiting for christmas but it will be worth it!

Nobody should ever be sacrificed to impatient screaming fans who afterwards without a moment of hesitation will drop the very same fighter as an overrated bum!

 

I guess that would have to make me german! Sorry, most of the german fighters of that time fought to protected to judge by any reasonable standard. Is it possible to make statements like: "everybody ducked Sven Ottke" or "Haussler is genuine elite, but got robbed three times against semi euro-elite level boxers" (according to your link)

I guess even germans must have a hard time loving them.:rofl

For the fun of it you should start a "best german boxer of the 90`ties" thread!

I would germanly speaking rather want Bute to face Braehmer if facing a german is an unbendable criteria for you:rofl :rofl

 

http://www.rds.ca/boxe/chroniques/240069.html

Lucian Bute devrait procéder à une ou peut-être deux défenses optionnelles de sa ceinture IBF des super-moyens.

On connaît déjà la date de ce premier rendez-vous, le 29 février 2008.

Stéphane Larouche a ciblé 4 boxeurs potentiels. L’heureux élu ne sera pas connu avant la mi-décembre, et ce, pour plusieurs raisons. D’abord, l’un de ces adversaires potentiels n’est pas encore classé dans le top 15 mondial de l’IBF.

De plus, Interbox n’a pas intérêt à faire signer un contrat, à 3-4 mois du combat. C’est monnaie courante dans la boxe lors d’une défense optionnelle. Les possibles adversaires demeurent sur le qui-vive le plus longtemps possible. On ne veut pas leur donner trop de temps pour se préparer. C’est de bonne guerre.

Oubliez immédiatement le nom de Librado Andrade. Du moins pas pour février. Le réseau américain HBO a manifesté son intérêt pour présenter un duel Bute-Andrade, quelque part en mai. Mais pas avant.

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Qui sont donc les autres candidats? Selon des sources en provenance du Danemark, le clan Wilfried Saerland a contacté Interbox. On aimerait opposer Mads Larsen(fiche de 49-2 37 K-O) à Bute, en Allemagne, en février.

Le nom d’un autre Allemand a également fait surface, Danilo Haussler(fiche de 29-3 7 K-O). Haussler affrontera Cristian Savaria, le 8 décembre, en Suisse.

 

Let's resume:

Sanavia is the opponent InterBox wants for Bute in Febuary. Nothing is signed but that's the plan.

Stjepan Bozic is the back up plan in case Sanavia loses his next fight or if he get's injured.

Then there are talks for Bute to make his second title defense against Andrade in Mai or June on HBO.