Thread: Bute v. Andrade Poll

This Friday on Showbox. Predictions?

• Were you aware that while they are the same height, both stand 6'2, Andrade has an 8" reach advantage over Bute(78" to 70")?

i have no idea who's going to win this one... but i'll be watching.

Lucian Bute by clear cut UD it will be an easier fight for Lucian Bute than people think.

I was gonna say pretty much what ICB did. Bute might shine in there.

I agree with ICB and Oumafan. Bute is going to outclassed Andrade in a big way, not unlike Kessler. I think it will be a wide UD, but I wouldn't be all together shocked if Bute stopped Andrade, in spite of his iron chin.

Admittedly, I am not too familiar with Bute. I will be rooting for Andrade.

bute should win but andrade can catch him

Bute will win. I have a gut feeling he stops Andrade.

I like Andrade when/if Bute go's inside.Bute is skilled southpaw,tricky but I think Andrade's volume & resilience will take it down the stretch.

I wish I can find the thread where I gave my thoughts on Bute. If I'm not mistaken I've seen him twice, versus Berrio and I can't get a picture in my head other then a really average fighter so this confuses me a bit. I remember in one fight the comment that my head assosciates with Bute that in the first half he was a poor man's Kessler before becoming a poor man's Calzaghe and that the poor man's Calzaghe was a lot better then the other guy.

Youtube seems to have a bit of a collection I will watch them before explaining my vote.

It's shocking how much bigger, better and more relevant of a fight this is then Froch-Pascal yet no one seems to care half as much about htis one.

Um, OK Bute isn't as average as I remembered him to be, this will be quite the fight and Bute looks like quite the fighter especially with that southpaw uppercut inside that is very nice and Andrade just seems a perfect target. This is interesting, very interesting. I think Andrade is talented enough to catch Bute squared up with the right hand down but will likely have to take a lot to give which is no problem for him but damn, Bute is a nice fighter just crammed about 20 minutes of Youtube including the Bika fight which brought back everything to me as well as others. Interesting fight, I think I'll go with Bute by decision, now way by KO imo.

Originally Posted by TigerFan

Bute will win. I have a gut feeling he stops Andrade.

same here.

No way he stops Andrade.

Put your house on a Bute UD.

I haven't seen much of Bute, and it seems he is quite a good boxer going from what I've heard on here and alot of people are picking him; but I am going to say my boy Andrade by ko, right or wrongly. I agree with Markus, no way Bute ko's Andrade unless he drives a truck in the ring and runs over Librado. Really looking forward to this one.

Well I went with Bute by decision. He has more sound skills than Andrade, but Andrade's work rate should keep this interesting.

I don't see Bute knocking out Andrade though. Andrade has one hell of chin, and I don't think that he even knows how to bruise. His face always seems to come out of a fight with no marks on it.