Lucian Bute

[CFH]

Good assessments......I am in no way trying to act as though Bute walks through any of these guys because the SMW division is stacked right now...As for fighting AA that is NEVER a fight easy to pick...I still don't think we learned anything new about AA in the Dirrell fight except he came in and was surprised by the speed....AA has the ability to beat anyone in or around SMW with one shot landed correct....Plus the guy gets stronger as the fight wears on....

Just I in no way can comfortably say any of then beats Bute....I am still not exactly sure why he was not in the Super 6?....I think it is because he had contract obligations when the tourney was signed....Could be wrong though..

Anyone know exactly why?

Because he had already agreed to rematch Andrade and I think his contract with HBO also had something to do with it.

Thats what I had figured...I had said that in the beginning of the Tourney when someone else asked the question but was not positive

I think if it wasn't for the controversy surrounding the end of the first Andrade fight he would have found a way to get involved in the Super 6, but I don't know how binding his HBO contract would have been.

[DaxxKahn]

HMMM....Especially with HBO...They can be real fickle over there...He would have probably found a way around it like you said but still at what price in the long run...

[Fenster]

The Super Six wouldn't have been able to play the USA-vs-Europe angle with Bute... then again he is really a Romanian. Sub that Euro in now

[amat]

It's good imo for there to be a guy like Bute outside of the Super 6. If Bute was in then it would be a less quality guy making a name for himself outside the Super 6 and it wouldn't be as much fun afterwards. Imo, Bute is number 1 in the division. I'd pick only Ward to beat him comfortably, I say that because Bute has relatively no inside game and since he's just as fast as Bute with his feet, I don't think he would give him much room to breathe the whole night.


Abraham of course he has a chance, Dirrell I don't think is sharp enough, nor polished and mentally tough enough to beat Bute. Froch, Kessler and Green would be picked apart imo.