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By Thomas Gerbasi - Patience and hope. It’s what IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute runs on these days.
Patience, as he waits for the conclusion of the seemingly never-ending Super Six tournament on December 17th, when Andre Ward meets Carl Froch in the finals in Atlantic City.
Hope, as it’s clear that for all his talent and his over four year reign with the IBF belt, he won’t truly be seen as the undisputed top 168-pounder in the world if he doesn’t meet and beat the Ward-Froch winner.
In between, danger lurks everywhere, as one misstep will crush all that work, all that running alongside the Super Six train while keeping his own schedule busy. And to his credit, the 31-year old southpaw has been a fighting champion, worthy of any and all praise thrown in his direction.
No, Librado Andrade, Edison Miranda, Jesse Brinkley, Brian Magee, and Jean Paul Mendy do not stack up with the Super Six likes of Ward, Froch, Arthur Abraham, and Mikkel Kessler, but Bute did to his challengers what a champion is supposed to do with those in his way – he dispatched them with efficiency and finality, knocking out each of the aforementioned foes.
The wins have made Bute’s case as the top dog at 168-pounds, something that won’t be confirmed in the eyes of the public until he hands a defeat to Ward or Froch, but in the meantime, he will continue to fight, and this Saturday at the Pepsi Coliseum in the Romanian’s adopted home province of Quebec, he will meet not only his greatest challenge, but one that could propel his career even further, as he will battle late Super Six entrant Glen Johnson.
“I have a good feeling,” said Bute
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Patience, as he waits for the conclusion of the seemingly never-ending Super Six tournament on December 17th, when Andre Ward meets Carl Froch in the finals in Atlantic City.
Hope, as it’s clear that for all his talent and his over four year reign with the IBF belt, he won’t truly be seen as the undisputed top 168-pounder in the world if he doesn’t meet and beat the Ward-Froch winner.
In between, danger lurks everywhere, as one misstep will crush all that work, all that running alongside the Super Six train while keeping his own schedule busy. And to his credit, the 31-year old southpaw has been a fighting champion, worthy of any and all praise thrown in his direction.
No, Librado Andrade, Edison Miranda, Jesse Brinkley, Brian Magee, and Jean Paul Mendy do not stack up with the Super Six likes of Ward, Froch, Arthur Abraham, and Mikkel Kessler, but Bute did to his challengers what a champion is supposed to do with those in his way – he dispatched them with efficiency and finality, knocking out each of the aforementioned foes.
The wins have made Bute’s case as the top dog at 168-pounds, something that won’t be confirmed in the eyes of the public until he hands a defeat to Ward or Froch, but in the meantime, he will continue to fight, and this Saturday at the Pepsi Coliseum in the Romanian’s adopted home province of Quebec, he will meet not only his greatest challenge, but one that could propel his career even further, as he will battle late Super Six entrant Glen Johnson.
“I have a good feeling,” said Bute
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