How about Bute v Hopkins?

**skel1983** · 12-05-2009 01:51 AM

Well, according to ESPN.com, Golden Boy Promotion CEO, Richard Schaefer, wants to make a fight between Bernard Hopkins and Lucian Bute at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal. He thinks it would sell 50,000 tickets.

**CFH** · 12-05-2009 03:48 AM

Originally Posted by skel1983

Well, according to ESPN.com, Golden Boy Promotion CEO, Richard Schaefer, wants to make a fight between Bernard Hopkins and Lucian Bute at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal. He thinks it would sell 50,000 tickets.

I assume it would be at 175? More fodder for those Hopkins detractors who say he makes smaller fighters come up in weight to fight him I guess.

**Nameless** · 12-05-2009 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by skel1983

Well, according to ESPN.com, Golden Boy Promotion CEO, Richard Schaefer, wants to make a fight between Bernard Hopkins and Lucian Bute at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal. He thinks it would sell 50,000 tickets.

I haven't read that. If that's true, expect 50 000 to sell within a couple of hours to 2 days max I am sure. Such fight would be like the biggest boxing event in Montreal since the Duran-Leonard, which happened at the Stadium as well. I thought HBO was all gun ho for a Pavlik-Bute, perhaps (if Bute wins) that it could happen after.