Comments Thread For: Photos: Bute, Pascal Go Face To Face in Montreal

[Bushidō]

i can't understand how you didnt see it coming. bute lived a charmed life till he stepped away from his own backyard fighting cab drivers.

easy to say that now. Even the oddsmakers made Bute a favorite and you know they aren't stupid.

[intoccabile]

easy to say that now. Even the oddsmakers made Bute a favorite and you know they aren't stupid.

Yeah, right.

He was always a 1 trick pony. What did he have outside of that Counter uppercut? He looked subpar everytime he fought a fellow southpaw simply because it negated his ability to land that upper.

Dude was hype based on the fact that he had 1 incredible weapon. He got a gift to Grachev shortly after.

[GhostBlade]

Bute always seemed overrated as heck to me and well connected because his talents definitely didn't match the hype. Pascal takes this fight easily.

[STEELHEAD]

easy to say that now. Even the oddsmakers made Bute a favorite and you know they aren't stupid.

don't know where you got that. all sportsbooks had Froch favored.

[MBE]

Why do you think that hes broken?

I'm excited for this fight. Looking for Bute to win and get a rematch with Froch or fight Ward

He postponed the pascal fight because he got ko'd in sparring. cancelled the whole camp. It doesn't sound like a man with a lot of confidence in himself. Fighters get knocked down in sparring all the time and still go through with the fight because they are confident they prepared well enough to win. Maybe broken was a little far but I think he has some doubts about himself that have carried on since the froch fight. Time will tell.

[MDPopescu]

Bute never had a proper trainer -- in more than ten years, Larouche didn't teach Lucian anything about pro defense or fighting from inside. Because Larouche knows nothing of these... Bute is boxing the same way he was boxing at the amateurs. Bute was badly exposed and he knows that by himself, in my opinion... Even if he beats Pascal, Bute has nowhere to go with the Froches, Wards, Stevensons or Kovalevs at 168-175...

(I used to be a Bute's fan, because he's from my country.)

[MDPopescu]

don't know where you got that. all sportsbooks had Froch favored.

No. The betting odds were favoring Bute...
... And the odds for Froch winning by KO from the 2nd to the 6th round were 72/1...

[DARKSEID]

Tough fight to call. One's a hypejob, the other's a choke artist.

[Syf]

I see Pascal being too physical and strong for Bute

[DARKSEID]

i can't understand how you didnt see it coming. bute lived a charmed life till he stepped away from his own backyard fighting cab drivers.

That was an easy fight to call.

Froch had been in there consistently with the best fighters in the division and stood his own(except when he fought THE best)

Bute hadn't fought anybody. Froch had an insurmountable experience advantage. When you fight the best, you take something from each fight.

When you fight tomato cans you don't gain **** lol