I Hold Lucian Bute In VERY High Regard!

How can he possibly be the best SMW with the resume he has? Glen Johnson will be his toughest fight and no disrespect to Glen he is a warrior but he is 42 with 15 losses. Exactly. You can't rank Bute as the best with that crap resume of his, I'd personally put someone like Carl Froch above him since he's fought way better opponents. Not to mention that Froch already beat the Glen Johnson that Bute is fighting next.

He's a 1 trick pony. He looks average at best and then lands an uppercut to either the head or the body. His counter upper is probably p4p the hardest punch in the sport right now.. it can go either down or upstairs and completely finish the fight... But until that point, he doesn't look all that great. He gets touched a lot.. he does more feinting and posing than committing half the time and this I know for a fact is something he didn't always do. It's like hes become more and more reliant in his power and forgotten all of the tools that got him to where he is. He seriously just looks average until he can squeeze that counter punch in these days. Against southpaws (fighters who mirror his power hand) he looks even less as impressive because the uppercut is then neutralized by 50% and the openings are fewer. Because Glen squares up and falls forward, He will be just another victim. But I also can definitely see Glen staying close enough to bute to where his best shots are smothered. This fight is either incredibly easy thanks to Glen being tailor made for a counter upper, or incredible hard based on Glens pressure possibly smothering it and never letting bute get it off.

bute is the real deal, haters can sit down slick fighter and the best smw atm. How can he possibly be the best SMW with the resume he has? Glen Johnson will be his toughest fight and no disrespect to Glen he is a warrior but he is 42 with 15 losses. He has been making title defences against journeymen like Brian Magee who Froch K.Oed 5years ago when he was still up and coming fighting at domestic level. I really think his lack of quality opponents will hurt him when he steps up against the likes of Froch, Ward and Kessler and Glen Johnson is a live underdog in this fight i wouldn’t rule out a Johnson K.O. As of right now Bute is arguably the 3rd beat SMW tops.

Bute wins by a wide margin

If the ref wasn't on Bute's side and didn't award him the first Andrade fight would people say such things about a guy who was KTFO by a guy who has never won a World Title? Bute's resume is sad. It's littered with guys whose best days were at Middleweight and the common thread is that he has never fought guys who were anything other than face first sluggers. It's ridiculous to have 8 defenses and never face a legit boxer, which is exactly what he has accomplished. I doubt he will be willing to leave Montreal to fight the S6 winner, and the onus should be on him to do so. He will say he is willing to fight in the US, but when it comes down to it he will say sh*t like "we can sell more tickets in Canada eh?"

bute is the real deal, haters can sit down slick fighter and the best smw atm.

I feel Bute is a real world class operator. While I agree his oposistion hasnt been great. His record & title reign is still impressive. I feel given the chance he would prove how good he is. He is a slick clever fighter, with KO power & precision. 29-0(24). 8 title defences. I also feels he lays a beaten on Carl Froch :) I'll be intersted to see how he fares against the Road Warrior. He should UD by a wide margin. Would you say that Johnson is the best competition he's faced thus far? I'll be rooting for Glen, but expect Bute to win.

Peter Quillin beat Jesse Brinkley faster than Bute did.....do you hold Quillin in high regard too or no? Ricky Hatton beat Tony Pep way quicker than Floyd Mayweather did. Back then did I hold Hatton in higher regard than Floyd? NO That type of maths is pointless......

Peter Quillin beat Jesse Brinkley faster than Bute did.....do you hold Quillin in high regard too or no?

Bute is in his prime now and has been looking deadly for some time. This fight vs Johnson will be outstanding. Bute vs Froch or Ward will be even more so. The future looks bright at 168.

He also chooses not to shave his hairy chest, I can respect that.