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Entries tagged with "Lucian+Bute":

• Kelly Pavlik Meets the Press – July 28th, 2011

  As Pavlik has matured and his body has thickened, the strain of making middleweight was taking too much out of him...
  
  

• Kelly Pavlik Comes Clean – August 4th, 2011

  Backroom shenanigans are part and parcel of the fight game. One doesn’t need to be an expert to know this goes on, and has gone on forever…
  
  

• Is It All Over for Kelly Pavlik? – August 6th, 2011

  Robert Ecksel, Editor-in-Chief of Boxing.com, spoke with Rick Strom of TYT Network about former middle champion Kelly Pavlik's sudden withdrawal from this weekend's fight with Darryl Cunningham in Youngstown, Ohio. They look at Pavlik's past, his present, and his ostensible future, and examine his motivation and who's to blame for this latest slap to the face to fight fans...
  
  

• Is Glen Getting the Runaround? – August 13th, 2011

  
  
  

• Carl Froch: Programmed to Lose – August 14th, 2011

  Relying too heavily on statistics runs the risk of losing sight of virtually everything that cannot be reduced to numbers…
  
  

• Bute vs. Johnson Done Deal – August 16th, 2011

  
  
  

• Bute vs. Johnson Heats Up – October 7th, 2011

  
  
  

• Hopkins-Dawson: Reflections on a TKO for Boxing – October 18th, 2011

  Most boxing fans are not Hollywood A-listers, but rather, are working-class people who look to boxing as an escape from their daily toil...
  
  

• Harold Lederman on Donaire vs. Narvaez – October 21st, 2011

  “I know HBO would be very interested in Donaire vs. Gamboa if Donaire keeps progressing the way we think he’s going to keep progressing…”
  
  

• Don King, WealthTV, and Mr. Chow – October 27th, 2011

  I asked Tim Smith, "What's the deal with Don King and WealthTV?" With a wry smile he said, "That's rich, isn't it...."
  
  

• Lucian Bute vs. Edison Miranda – October 29th, 2011

  IBF champion Lucian Bute (29-0) is the great unsung hero of the super middleweight division. That he wasn't included in the Showtime Super Six Boxing Classic was a good thing, certainly for Carl Froch, if not Andre Ward. The southpaw from Montreal via Romania won the IBF crown in 2007 and has successfully defended it eight times, with seven of those wins coming by early stoppage. Before he fights Glen Johnson next week, which will be like trying to punch bricks out of a wall, let's take a quick look at the heavy-handed Le Tombeur in action...
  
  

• A Boxing Fan’s Dream Weekend – October 31st, 2011

  
  
  

• Lucian Bute vs. Glen Johnson Preview – November 5th, 2011

  Johnson less resembles a prizefighter than a runaway train, and hitting him is like trying to knock bricks out of wall...
  
  

• Bute vs. Johnson: Whisker Test – November 4th, 2011

  Robert Ecksel, Editor-in-Chief of Boxing.com, speaks with Rick Strom of TYT Sports about Saturday's super middleweight showdown between Lucian Bute (29-0 with 24 KOs) and Glen Johnson (51-15-2, 35 KOs) at the Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec, Canada. Bute may be the unsung hero of the division, but his whiskers may be put to the test against the always in-your-face Johnson. This much anticipated bout will be broadcast live on Showtime at 9:00 pm ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast)...
  
  

• Bute’s Boxing Alive in Quebec City – November 5th, 2011

  Youth, good youth, possibly great youth, will have its way in this tough business that is boxing, as it did tonight…
  
  

• Another Old-Timer Takes a Beating – November 5th, 2011

  
  
  

• Charisma—Mexican Style – November 26th, 2011

  
  
  

• Another Dream Boxing Weekend – November 29th, 2011

  
  
  

• All I Want for Christmas...Floyd, Tattoos, Manny – December 7th, 2011

  Santa I would ask you to consider an Immaculate Conception, that being the idea of finally having Manny Pacquiao fight Floyd Mayweather…
  
  

• Hopkins Call Out Bute – December 10th, 2011

  
  
  

• Does the Referee Pool Need New Blood? – December 11th, 2011

  Perhaps referees like Italian Massimo Barrovecchio and Panamanian Hector Afu can be part of a seminar for new and/or aspiring amateur referees...
  
  

• Ward/Froch: Distant Relatives – December 12th, 2011

  Climbing the evolutionary food chain one bout at a time does more than define a path of natural selection…
  
  

• Ward/Froch on Lucian Bute – December 14th, 2011

  When asked if they can be “universally regarded as the best” without having fought Lucian Bute, Ward and Froch found unanimity…
  
  

• When a Boxing Historian Struggled to Maintain His Interest – January 7th, 2012

  That kind of special "leave it all in the ring" style is now the exception and certainly not the rule...
  
  

• The Round That Was – January 19th, 2012

  
  
  

• Andre Dirrell and the All-Powerful – January 28th, 2012

  
  
  

• Canadian Boxing—What Resurgence? – January 27th, 2012

  Way up in the rafters, you can hear conversations about Durelle, Chuvalo, the Hiltons, Gatti, Pep, Gray, Melo, and so many others…
  
  

• Giving Bute the Boot – January 27th, 2012

  
  
  

• Bute-Froch: Let’s Get It On! – March 1st, 2012

  
  
  

• Bute-Froch Sound Off – March 21st, 2012

  
  
  

• Carl Froch: Lord of the Rings? – March 25th, 2012

  
  
  

• Bute-Froch: An Epix Blunder? – April 3rd, 2012

  
  
  

• Kessler Dispatches Green with One-Punch KO – May 19th, 2012

  Kessler felt the thunderous impact immediately, throwing both hands in the air in celebration before Green even hit the deck...