Abraham vs. Bute/Andrade; A Chance For Early January

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There is a small chance that we could see a super middleweight fight with undefeated Arthur Abraham facing the winner of Lucian Bute vs. Librado Andrade. According to an overseas interview with Heiko Mallwitz, the media director for Sauerland Event [who handle Abraham], several things would have to happen for that particular situation to come off. [details]

[TheSurgeonMDMPH]

Waaaaaaay too many IFs in this scenario!

But at least these guys are trying to fight each other.
LOL @ the prediction of Froch vs Dirrell being more physical than normal. Hope they are right.

[Gettin Jiggy]

i would love to see andrade/abraham. really dout it will happen do!

[lopez36]

other fighters should learn from these guys,willing to fight the best

[starjammer]

lol yeah what the hell. IF Direll gets an injury. This is really just a pointless topic until if something actually happened to Direll

[THEDOC]

I think it's a really good back up plan. Fair play to those involved for having such foresight.

[Tom_Tocca]

I guess it's more about the dates set by SHO than any real injury on Direll's part.
There will be a time window set by SHO for the second round (late January till early April) so there's really the possibility to have Abraham and Direll fight on the end of that window, regardless what reason for - both would need a stay-busy fight to say the least in that case and SE is exploring AA's options to get a fight then...

...still a lot of variables to play together making this happen...

[Taranazan]

lol yeah what the hell. IF Direll gets an injury. This is really just a pointless topic until if something actually happened to Direll

Agreed. Plus the Bute-Andrade fight will be pretty physical too, so I don't see the winner fighting Abraham a month later...

[BattlingNelson]

This is complete bull**** and will never happen. If Direll has to postpone untill March then Abraham will take on Bute/Andrade............ What if Abraham gets an injury there or gets KTFO??????? Then the Direll fight will be postponed some 5-6 months further thereby jeopardizing the entire tournaments timeline. Surely this speculation is whacko.

[catalinul]

Well Sauerland does have a option on Bute and Abraham was the IBF MW champ,same version Bute is SMW champ so it seems likely from that pov.

But Bute/Andrade winner fighting in november and then in january is not likely IMO.