what now for bute?

[ruthless rocco]

reading comprehension must not be your strong suit...(or maybe it's the lack of capital letters that's confusing you.) i just said that bute has alot to learn from this fight and many adjustments to make.

i'd argue that bute is fairly durable since he took about 30 clean power shots to the head and didn't go down. seemed to recover well between rounds... the problem is that he tried to go toe to toe with froch instead of boxing and using his jab, movement speed and timing.

he clearly can't fight on the inside and should have a completely different strategy for the rematch. everyone expected bute to keep froch on the outside and box. he allowed froch to come in and overpower him. so... fighting guys that aren't as vicious or lack the inside fighting of froch won't really help him get better. he'll just assert his outside game and beat them the way he beat the others.

you have to face failure head on to be the best. back into the fire.

[p4pking]

Hahaha. It's true I didn't really read your first post due to the lowercase, my apologies. The thing which had people so confused going into this fight(myself included) is the notion that Bute had the option to box him on the outside. Thinking back, he's never really shown the ability to move any way but forwards whilst being effective with his output. He is more of a well polished offensive fighter than he is actually slick or intelligent in the ring.

I'm not suggesting that he should only fight bums he could look good against, merely pointing out that this is how he built himself up to begin with for the most part. I was surprised that he dealt with Glen Johnson the way he did, but in truth, I think Glencoffee would TKO him if they fought again. That's an opponent for Bute to consider at least. If he jumps right into a rematch with Froch it is carehr suicide, he CAN'T beat himt barring some kind of godlike metmorphosis you seem to feel he is capable of.