I say Pascal beats the brakes off of Bute!

[ykdadamaja]

This is a corker of a fight. In terms of big even-$ fights this year, Bute-Pascal is up there with all of them - Donaire-Rigo, Kessler-Froch II, and Canelo-Trout. If we are talking about boxing ability, I tend to side with Bute. He can be a master boxer when's he on. The problem is it's hard to get over his performance in the Froch fight.

In his next fight he also somewhat struggled with what appeared to be a limited Grachev. Grachev gave him a rough go of it. However, he went on to upset Erdei in his next fight, and he has knocked out Sillakh, which makes me think that he's a tougher than advertised. In the last few rounds, Bute was beating him up, something that Erdei couldn't do. Could it be that Bute found his pre-Froch form in those last few rounds?

Yea it was a pretty solid fight. The ref was WAY to involved for my liking. He broke the action of the fight tremendously.... it could have been an all-time classic if the ref had stayed the fuck out of the fight!!!

That and for the fact that Pascal was causing the clenches more than Froch...in fact, that head bending and clenching caused him to look sloppy and for him to lose more of the rounds than he shouldn't have.

The scores are a bit misleading to how close the fight really was. Froch just had more class, it wasn't a white-wash beating ala RJJ vs. any of the LH tin cans he faced in the late 90's early 00's.

[bradlee180]

Gif was a terrific KO of Berrio, and he's a rough, tuff customer.

When I think of Bute though, I always think of him with that southpaw left uppercut just waiting to rip it to the liver like recoil action, knocking guys out and hurting them with bodyshots.

I love a great bodypuncher, y'know...

[ykdadamaja]

Gif was a terrific KO of Berrio, and he's a rough, tuff customer.

When I think of Bute though, I always think of him with that southpaw left uppercut just waiting to rip it to the liver like recoil action, knocking guys out and hurting them with bodyshots.

I love a great bodypuncher, y'know...

Berrio was a bum!

[bradlee180]

Berrio was in the top 10 out of a talent field of almost a thousand licensed professional boxers worldwide at super-middleweight.
Have a little respect for the top 10 athletes in the sport you supposedly support.

[ykdadamaja]

Berrio was in the top 10 out of a talent field of almost a thousand licensed professional boxers worldwide at super-middleweight.
Have a little respect for the top 10 athletes in the sport you supposedly support.

I have respect for the sport, enough not to fluff bums fighting tin-cans... that's what they do? Create Bears out of squirrles for kittens to slay them... enough of these rigged rankings man. Say top 10...gthooh!!!

[bradlee180]

Without mid-level and lower-tier boxers, there's no sport.
The sport is built on the backs of guys like Reggie Strickland and Peter Buckley, and the 16 thousand other licensed professional boxers who'll never make any real money from it...

Show some class...

[ykdadamaja]

Without mid-level and lower-tier boxers, there's no sport.
The sport is built on the backs of guys like Reggie Strickland and Peter Buckley, and the 16 thousand other licensed professional boxers who'll never make any real money from it...

Show some class...

Class, sir? I'm insulted by your words. It's offensive!

Berrio was what he was. Don't get into another argument about mid-level and lower-tier boxers, when that isn't the discussion. The discussion is/was calling Berrio what he was- and, there were probably 100 others boxers in the same division, boxing organization that were ten times better than Berrio- but politics and fluffing up bums was what we need to feed to some guys.

But, at least Bute was the king of the tin-cans. No more!

[bradlee180]

Eat me...