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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...........
That's the thing, he doesn't really. He went 12 rounds easily with every boxers and ran out once against Andrade in the last 10 seconds and it's because he got too cocky and went trading punch for punch with the best jaw in the business. Green-Bute? Bet ya 100 bucks Bute wins convincingly or by a knock out, idem for Froch if ever we have the chance to see it, do not forget Bute's faster and way more powerful than Green, he floored Andrade, that's not a small achievement when we know the guy and that he did resist Kessler's slaughter for 12 rounds, do not forget neither that Bute won every rounds on almost every cards except for one against him too so except for the 10 last seconds, he did against Andrade as good as Kessler except that he did knock him down on top of it.