Bute looked awful to me and against an opponent who looked and was massively inexperienced. Some of those punches and combinations Grachev was throwing looked awful. Bute should not have been having issues with a man of only a dozen fights and that and the Froch thrashing suggests to me that he is pretty much done. He is too old to learn new tricks and he has lost his confidence. A Froch rematch is pointless, he will be smashed down again and it is a waste of Froch's time at this point in Froch's career.

Bute needs to rebuild and even then I doubt he has what it takes. He's a bit like Khan in that you know it only takes one to make his soul depart.