I think it will be a good fight but bute is a worse match up than ward. hes atheletic, with tremendous crisp punching and hand speed. I can see him doing good kessler esque body shots with better work upstairs.
FROCH is a legend but i feel this could be his last hurrah, hoe im wrong though, but bute imo is the best in the world :(
That's the only way Bute can win. If he dominates Froch and clearly beats him, he loses an SD.
Bute has no choice but to swing for the fences and knock the guy out.
I know Carl and Robert have been working on different things for this fight including speed and a tighter defence but the thing with fighters is that as soon as they get hit with a decent shot they revert back to their former selves and fight the only way they know how to.
At their core Bute is the much slicker man not to mention he's much fresher than Carl. The super six must have surely drained Carl to an extent. As much as I love Froch the way I see it is that when Bute starts landing Carl will revert back to his normal self and fight flat footed leaving himself open to some huge shots.
I'd favour a points victory for Bute just don't see Carl being stopped or rather hoping that he wouldn't. I'll still be rooting for him to pull it off.
Bute might find fighting outside of sunny canada not to his liking and not find his rhythm, plus froch will have those nice cosy officials on hand to bail him out if hes losing but the fight is semi-close. I think it may boil down to physical strength, if bute can handle froch physically like ward did (but possibly CONTE pellet assisted) then he will win, if froch can bully him successfully and push im back then he will take it
How Froch reacts to Bute's body punches will determine the outcome of the fight. It may be enough to stop him.
But if he can take them as well as shots to the chin then Bute is in trouble, cos if they dont stop him or slow him down, Froch's relentlessness, stamina and never say die atitiude will give Bute with his chin and stamina nightmares
Unfortunately I agree, I think its gonna catch up to Froch in this fight. Bute is the hardest hitter he's faced apart from maybe Abraham but Bute is far more versatile than Abraham.
I think he might get hurt to the body.
Those uppercuts to the body are brutal.
Unfortunately I agree, I think its gonna catch up to Froch in this fight. Bute is the hardest hitter he's faced apart from maybe Abraham but Bute is far more versatile than Abraham.
Put lots of pressure on Bute and he can tire out. Andrade got to him once. Froch just has to put lots of pressure on him without getting reckless. If Froch uses lots of pressure with a constant hard jab, we very well could watch Bute come apart.
I was starting to worry that I was the only one thinking this...
Put lots of pressure on Bute and he can tire out. Andrade got to him once. Froch just has to put lots of pressure on him without getting reckless. If Froch uses lots of pressure with a constant hard jab, we very well could watch Bute come apart.
don't know about "STOPPING FROCH" but I do think Bute will win because Froch is so damn SLOW
Do people think Bute is really fast? he doesn't look any faster than a Pascal or Dirrell to me.
I have no idea how this fight is going to go, I won't even try to guess.
I'm shocked at the amount of people who think Froch is going to get stopped. If there is one fighter in the world that looks almost impossible to stop it's Froch. Sure, we've seen him stunned, and we've seen him dropped but he's never even looked remotely close to being stopped. I fancy Bute to take this fight, but I just can't imagine any scenarion where Carl can't complete the full 12 rounds.