Bute-ful bodyshots make Lucian a different animal

[boxerbadboy]

Lucian Bute defended his IBF Super Middleweight title on Friday night with 9thround stoppage of veteran Jesse Brinkley. The win was simply a case of a good Super Middleweight taking on perhaps the best 168 pounder in the world.
The result was exactly what we had come to expect from Bute, a sharp shooting boxer-puncher who may posses the best left hand in boxing.
Brinkley was game, but simply outgunned. Bute started quickly and established a good jab combined with sharp straight lefts and short crisp hooks. It was when he started throwing his left uppercut that made it just a matter of time before he had Brinkley ready to go.
After a bodyshot dropped Jesse in the 5th, Lucian landed a short left uppercut that made Brinkley taste the canvas once more. Brinkley looked like a beaten fighter as he rose, blood pouring down his face, but he again showed his heart as he beat the count.
Finally, in round 9, another, you guessed it, uppercut put Brinkley on his back and the fight was mercifully waved off by the ref.
Bute now has his sights set on a possible bout with former Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik. If not Pavlik, then a possible showdown with another Montreal favorite, Jean Pascal, would be huge in Canada. There is no shortage of excellent fights and fighters that the Bute brain thrust could negotiate with from 160 to 175 pounds.
But prepare as they might, the Bute left uppercut is becoming one of the best and most feared punches in boxing. A few more wins, especially over a Pascal, Pavlik or Sergio Martinez may soon have fight fans comparing his left with the Larry Holmes jab, the famous Rocky Marciano Suzy-Q or the Mike Tyson uppercut.
It seems that every time Lucian lands that left it stops opponents in their tracks.
While Bute has not fought the absolute best quite yet, his punch has left name opponents like Edison Miranda and Librado Andrade unable to beat the count.
Andrade, especially, had a reputation as a tough, veteran fighter who would not taste the canvas. In their rematch in November of last year, Bute dropped Librado with a short hook and then finished him with a devastating short uppercut to the body.
The look on Andrade’s face was amazing, he stayed on his knees for several minutes following the knockdown just trying to regroup.
Further proof of the debilitating Bute bodyshot occurred when he beat Fulgencio Zuniga in March of 2009. Zuniga took a shot to the bread basket that, if you listen closely, you could almost hear him cry out after being hit.
That is what makes Lucian Bute a different type of animal, or predator, if you will. His bodyshot isn’t the kind that goes around and under an opponent’s elbow. Lucian delivers his straight up the middle. If he changes the trajectory ever so slightly his bodyshot becomes a jaw crushing blow.
It is thrown from a short distance away with a quick, deadly accuracy that changes the course of a fight in a split second. And that is what makes the the Lucian Bute bodyshot a Bute-ful thing to watch.

[Mar]

...butte has looked great against the guys he's been in with outside of andrade, but most of the top guys in the division would too. I'm still on the fence about the guy. Beating jesse brinkley, edison miranda and the like is good. But it's brinkley, edision miranda and the like. His body shots are nice along with the hunched over style. I give him a good shot against anyone with what i've seen. But till i've seen it he's only beating guys he should beat.

[Hulk]

...butte has looked great against the guys he's been in with outside of andrade, but most of the top guys in the division would too. I'm still on the fence about the guy. Beating jesse brinkley, edison miranda and the like is good. But it's brinkley, edision miranda and the like. His body shots are nice along with the hunched over style. I give him a good shot against anyone with what i've seen. But till i've seen it he's only beating guys he should beat.

He also took out Andrade to the body and DOMINATED Sakio Bika.

Those are his most impressive wins.

[Rantcatrat]

...butte has looked great against the guys he's been in with outside of andrade, but most of the top guys in the division would too. I'm still on the fence about the guy. Beating jesse brinkley, edison miranda and the like is good. But it's brinkley, edision miranda and the like. His body shots are nice along with the hunched over style. I give him a good shot against anyone with what i've seen. But till i've seen it he's only beating guys he should beat.

I'm a big fan of Bute's, but even I'll agree, he needs to step up the competition. We get it already, he can beat the Andrade/Bika/Berrio's of the world. I want to see how he fares when he steps up in class a bit.

If no Pavlik fight, how about Erdei at 175? Erdei just signed with Dibella. He has a tune-up on the undercard of the Martinez/Williams fight. Hungarian-Romanian.

[gramm]

i say in another couple of years he will b the pound for pound best. at least if does good when he steps up competition.

[Master]

never seen him, unless you are in the super 6 you are nothing.