Lucian Bute vs. Kelly Pavlik: Official Poll

[Chinch]

Pavlik's wahed up!
When is Bute going to fight a World class opponent?
He ducked Jean Pascal FOUR times!!!

http://www.boxingfutures.com/news/0709-pascal-bute-needs-more-balls

Pascal: ‘Bute needs more balls’
Posted on Jul 9, 2011

Former light-heavyweight world champion Jean Pascal has hit out at IBF super-middleweight titleholder Lucian Bute for ducking him.

Pascal revealed that Bute has turned down an offer to fight him four times saying the undefeated fighter continually faced opponents that are ‘below his level’.

And with the Canadian-based Romanian defending his title today against 37-year-old veteran Jean Paul Mendy in a fight that will be aired for free on Primetime, Pascal called for Bute to ‘get more balls’.

‘After my fight against Bernard Hopkins we offered Lucian Bute to fight me next this fall, and he said no,’ Pascal told the On The Ropes boxing radio show.

‘So I was really disappointed because I think Lucian Bute’s fans deserve more than that. Lucian Bute is a great fighter but he’s always fighting boxers below his level, and he needs to step up his game and fight boxers of his caliber.

‘So you know we offered him to fight me for the fourth time, and he said no. So I was really disappointed by him. Lucian Bute needs to get more balls, to risk himself a little bit, to try to roll the dice because one day it’s going to catch him.

‘Anyone can be the pound-for-pound boxer when they seek out boxers. Once when he’s in a fight with a real boxer, he’s going to see adversity and he’s not going to be able to do anything because it’s going to be his first time facing adversity.’

[Jay Volcano]

Bute via late KO or UD.

[Mohammedini]

Bute will KO whats left of Pavliks liver

[Chinch]

Who will win this one?

By decision or by KO?

Thanks for the RED K!
Your man crush on Bute is Cute!!
Fuucking Groupie!!!

[Swag Hustla]

I think Pavlik has enough left in the tank to score an upset KO in the late rounds.

[BattleAxePurist]

It'll be an action packed exciting match that'll end in a decisive draw with both combatants acknowledging the others performance at the end.

[AKATheMack]

Pavlik knocks Bute out in the 6th and gets scalded by the ref while Bute wakes up he then wins a lopsided UD.

[Check]

Bute by kayo. Hopkins made him look silly, Bute will do a pretty good job at doing it too. He might not be able to do it to the level as Hopkins but unlike Hopkins he will get Kelly out of there.

[Bring It On]

Bute by mid-late stoppage.

[junior gong]

I go for Bute here by late stoppage or UD. I truly believe that whatever confidence Pavlik had was beaten out of him by Hopkins, and whilst tough and undoubtably brave, Kelly strikes me as a confidence fighter. He will put up a good show, but I see a painful beating here.