Bute leery of Miranda’s punch
Posted by GameSetMatch on April 16th, 2010
While six of the top super middleweights duke it out in Showtime’s Super Six World Boxing Classic, titleholder Lucian Bute is off doing his own thing — and doing it well.
Bute is clearly the best 168-pounder in the world not involved in the Super Six, which boasts titleholders Andre Ward and Carl Froch along with Andre Dirrell, Mikkel Kessler, Arthur Abraham and alternate Allan Green (who replaced Jermain Taylor). However, Bute, who had previously appeared on Showtime, was not invited to join the tournament party, so HBO scooped him up.
Before middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik defends his belts against junior middleweight titlist Sergio Martinez in the HBO “World Championship Boxing” main event at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J., on Saturday night (10 ET), the split-site telecast will open in Montreal, where the Bell Centre crowd will be roaring for the popular Bute when he makes his fifth defense against powerful Edison Miranda of Colombia.
Click here to read the full article – By Dan Rafael of ESPN.com
April 16th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
I think that this should be an excellent title fight come Saturday. Miranda has proven to be a worthy contender only losing to top fighters such as Arthur Abraham(twice), Kelly Pavlik and Andre Ward. Thats 3 champions he has lost too. He also is the only man to defeat current Super Six competitor Allan Green. This will also be a real test for Lucian Bute, this is the first time he’ll step into the ring with a puncher like Miranda. If Bute puts on a boxing clinic and avoids Miranda’s power he will come out victorious. I see Bute winning this bout by decision.
September 12th, 2010 at 7:36 am
The question i have is regarding Haye. I’m a fan, but i cannot understand the sense in fighting Audley harrison rather than making a klitchko fight happen. Harrison has done nothing to earn a world title shot and will do nothing to prepare Haye for a unification fight. What do you think?