By Mark Vester
IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (24-0, 19 KOs) was crushing when we stopped Fulgencio Zuniga (22-4-1, 19 KOs) in the fourth round of their championship bout at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.
Bute was a lot stronger, a lot faster and poured on the more accurate punches ine ach round. Zuniga tried to keep a tight defense but was getting tagged every time he opened up. In the fourth, a big hook to the midsection had Zuniga scream in pain as he dropped to the mat. He made it to his feet before the count of ten. But quickly jumped on him, stunning him pretty bad with an uppercut and then pouring on the combinations until the ref jumped in to stop the fight.
After the win, Bute called out Librado Andrade to a rematch. Last October, But dominated Andrade for the better part of eleven rounds but ran out of gas in the twelfth and was dropped hard in the closing seconds. Many felt the hometown ref gave Bute too much time to recover and Andrade was never given the chance to finish the champion off. Bute wants to set the record straight.
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