Jean Pascal - Lucian Bute, fight discussion thread and picks

[Beanflicker]

How can there not be any prospects though? There's nobody they can put even in a six rounder before the main event for an easy knockout?

I'm not sure why they never. Would have been nice to see Montreal native David Lemieux on the undercard. He was gonna be the next big thing in Canada until he lost to Rubio. Huge puncher, would have been a good showcase to get him back in the public eye.

Dierry Jean is fighting Lamont Peterson next week, would have been great to get that bout on the undercard. Dierry is another Haitain-Canadian with big potential.

Logan McGuinness is a decent prospect, don't know why they never got him.

Who knows

[Kirkland Laing]

How can there not be any prospects though? There's nobody they can put even in a six rounder before the main event for an easy knockout?

I'm not sure why they never. Would have been nice to see Montreal native David Lemieux on the undercard. He was gonna be the next big thing in Canada until he lost to Rubio. Huge puncher, would have been a good showcase to get him back in the public eye.

Dierry Jean is fighting Lamont Peterson next week, would have been great to get that bout on the undercard. Dierry is another Haitain-Canadian with big potential.

Logan McGuinness is a decent prospect, don't know why they never got him.

Who knows

Lemieux is the only guy I can name. If you lose to Rubio though you've pretty much lost to a gatekeeper. I was thinking of somebody on the way up that they could at least give an easy KO opponent to before the main event to give him some kind of buzz with fight fans on a big stage.

[bzkfn]

I'm not sure why they never. Would have been nice to see Montreal native David Lemieux on the undercard. He was gonna be the next big thing in Canada until he lost to Rubio. Huge puncher, would have been a good showcase to get him back in the public eye.

Dierry Jean is fighting Lamont Peterson next week, would have been great to get that bout on the undercard. Dierry is another Haitain-Canadian with big potential.

Logan McGuinness is a decent prospect, don't know why they never got him.

Who knows

Lemieux fought on November 30th on the Stevenson undercard so fighting less than 2 months after a pretty brutal fight just wasn't gunna happen.

[Dia bando]

Bute did fight a bit negative, but Pascal did hurt him and I feel Pascal did win, boxing sometimes
can be disappointing, but the fight you sometimes expect turns out poor in your eyes, maybe good
in others. Out of 10 I give it a 6, not bad about average.

[Master]

So it appears it was not worth staying up for.

[Fenster]

I thought Bute won.

I deducted Pascal 2 points for overdoing the Roy impression and 1 point in the 12th round for laying in the corner for 60 seconds without throwing a punch. If in Britain Bute has a TKO victory to his name. So was arguably robbed.

[Gandalf]

The fight was bad as one was lazy and gasses and the other was all herky jerky and not doing anything.

I thought after 4- the fight was about 2 each and then Bute fell asleep and was outworked from that point on. But then.....the classic Pascal gas and on comes Bute for 3 good rounds.

7-5 overall, but if anyone was closer to getting stopped it was Pascal. When you are throwing nothing for 30-40 seconds, you can start making a case for a 10-8 round too.

Pascal got stupid and then later said he was doing it to get a rematch. That should be investigated if there is a rematch.

15 rounder and Bute would have ground out a result and maybe got to his man.

Still, poor fight. HBO was bad on both fights as usual. Biased with the Jones Jr/Pascal routine and on the undercard with house fighter who should have lost. His name excapes me.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

The fight was entertaining for me. It was a clean tactical fight.
It was kinda Bute's fight to win or lose a Pascal wasn't really offering that great deal of problems to solve. It was intriguing though, to see Pascal fight a southpaws fight, actually moreso than Bute, who for some reason didn't let the right hook go until round 11. Should have been a much bigger part of his plan to counter those telegraphed lead rights to the body from Pascal.

Relatively easy win for Pascal though, had it easy in a way.

[WelshDevilRob]

Bute was ineffective. Pascal so much quicker and toying with him. Even when Bute had a steady round, he would still end up getting caught-out by the flashy bursts of Pascal.

Pascal pretty much did as he pleased. I thought it was a very good performance by him and he was a worthy winner.

I scored it 118-111 to Pascal.

[beenKOed]

The fight was entertaining for me. It was a clean tactical fight.
It was kinda Bute's fight to win or lose a Pascal wasn't really offering that great deal of problems to solve. It was intriguing though, to see Pascal fight a southpaws fight, actually moreso than Bute, who for some reason didn't let the right hook go until round 11. Should have been a much bigger part of his plan to counter those telegraphed lead rights to the body from Pascal.

Relatively easy win for Pascal though, had it easy in a way.

Have to disagree. Tactical fight? Bute was not fighting a tactical fight, for 11 rounds he didn't fight at all! Unless you want to call following another fighter around the ring, bouncing up and down, moving your head from side to side without throwing a single significant punch for 11 rounds boxing. I have always called it follow the leader.
We watched a piss poor imitation of Roy Jones Jr fighting a non punching Bute. Pascal did not win the fight, Bute handed it to him.

How can it be called a fight if one "fighter" is not fighting? Bute is brain dead as a boxer.

A bigger disappointment than Alexander vs Bailey.

I don't know how Lampley and Kellerman sleep at night with all the lies that come out of their mouths.

It's what I'd call a fucked night of boxing. Boxing? Maybe noxing would be a better way to describe the main event or what Bute was doing.

Take heart Canada, some nights the US, the UK and Germany do as bad or worse.