Comments Thread For: Photos: Lucian Bute, Jean Pascal Face To Face at Presser

[leericists]

Bute must have really pissed off his manager. Guy fought cab drivers his whole career, gets KTFO by froch and now for his next fight they give him Pascal at 175?

They WANT him to get KTFO again, guaranteed. Bute must have ****** his manager's wife or something.

hahahaha u funny as hell ! but i hear you tho ! i thinks its more like a money thing; both wanna cashout before it gets too late

[WesTbog]

Bute was a very big Super middleweight. The move up may rejuvenate him.

Bute looked very weigh-drained, especially in his last 2 fight at SMW. Look at pictures of Bute-Johnson and Bute-Froch and you'll see what I mean. For Grachev fight even if he was only 1lbs over the 168 limit he looked a bit better.
He was suborned and wanted to stay at 168 for Ward, after that possibility gone out the window and he lost to Froch, he thought to stay there for the Re-match. So the thing that could turn the tides here, can be the fact that Bute might have been suffering the effects of draining himself into making 168.
At 175 we might see a Bute that will have better chin, better power, better stamina, all that could have been the effects of weight-draining. It will be very interesting to see if that was the case.

[WesTbog]

So i've heard USADA will be doing the drug tests, and heard something like the fighters will could have 1 or 2 unexpected tests even 1 year after the fight's over.
Don't know if the last one's a rumor or a fact.