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Personally, I am certain Bute will mangle him if ever it happens, Bute has way too much power, speed and technique for the Cobra, less we forget he even floored Andrade, which ain't a small accomplishment.
NOw some peoples will probably argue about the end of the fight; BEfore the end, Bute won every single rounds on every cards except one if I recall, he was literally toying Andrade and tagging him at will. IN the last round, he did something he shouldn't have because of cockyness probably: he went toe to toe and traded bombs and didn't look at his energy, we know the following, a contested end with him running out of gaz in the very last moments, which never happened to him before.
So: First step: Green this summer. This match shouldn't be a problem at all. If ever he wins against Green, there is his revenge against Andrade this autumn, which will drag a bit more the medias from the US, which is needed because Bute ain't much publicized in Uncle Sam's land. After that... I have 2 guesses: There will be a mandatory fight, I think Bute will pick either the winner of Ward-Miranda as they are both big names in the US and would give him more credibility in the US/visibility or MAds Larsen as INterbox apparently owe a favor to Sauerland. In fact, Larsen was supposed to be Bute's opponent, there was talks but for a reason I ignore, they finally turned to Zuniga, apparently for visibility too.
For that reason, I think they will chose either of those 2 possibilities, if Bute wins both fights of course. That's what comes after that will be interesting; I think that after a manoeuvre, Interbox will try to unify the titles; Froch if he's still champion or the very dangerous Kessler would be on the line but well, that's a bit distant so let's see but I think that working the thing this way would be very logical.
If this fight happens I'm willing to sig bet that he doesn't get past Allan Green.

Green will knock him out.

Bute I'm talking about obviously, Froch beats them both.

If you look at boxing history, put a big punching tough fighter in with a great boxer and the great boxer usually wins. However put a big punching tough fighter in with a great boxer with durability problems, the puncher usually knocks him out or at least imposes his will on him enough to win the fight.

Bute has durability issues...........
I'm not sure Bute has durability issues. Boxers like Bute traditionally eat pure punchers for lunch, true, and Bute was eating Andrade for lunch. Andrade created durability problems for Bute with great body punching and an almost inhumane ability to absorb Bute's shots. Froch isn't the body puncher that Andrade is, and he doesn't have Andrade's chin. It's far more likely that Bute will do exactly what Taylor did to Froch with losing it in the end because Bute doesn't have a history of gassing out like Taylor does. Also, Froch probably won't be able to slow Bute down with body shots the way that Andrade did.

I would give Froch a chance against Bute based on Froch having a unique style and a lot of heart. Froch doesn't "obviously" beat either, especially not Bute. Both are winnable fights for him, but don't go betting the hobbit hole on him in either case.