Is time of retirement for Lucian Bute ?

[jas]

i think it depends on the contender. i dont think much of grachev(?) but that "win" was way too close for comfort. he needs a guy that isnt gonna walk him down and put on a lot of pressure. i don't think it's a mental thing. if you stay in bute's face he's gonna have issues.

on paper, glen johnson should have fared much better against bute than he did. but maybe thats just an attestment to johnson's age and/or their friendship outside the ring.

maybe someone like gabriel campillo would be a good fight to get back on track with. or even jeff lacy in a cross-roads kinda fight. although, that may be a bigger step up than lacy might wanna take on his comeback trail.

I completely disagree. It is a mental thing.

Watch the grachev fight again. He had the froch ko in his mind. Wasn't confident to commit. It was clearly obvious.

[Derranged]

He can still make some good money fighting Canadian maple syrup harvesters can't he?

[boliodogs]

I think so. He seems to have lost the desire to fight. He won't throw punches. He never had that problem before. Pascal is not very good and I think he could have beat him if he had come to fight and let his hands go.