Source: boxnews.com

Regardez cette photo du boxeur Éric Lucas lors de son affrontement contre le danois Mikkel Kessler en 2006 lors du “retour” sur le ring de notre champion québécois… 10 rounds de souffrances plus tard, Éric perdit par K.O. technique et j’ai alors su que c’était le chant du cygne pour lui… Quand ton corps ne suit plus les jeunes “veaux” de ta division, il faut accepter de passer le flambeau…il faut savoir se retirer!

Malheureusement pour lui, cette raclée n’a pas été bénéfique… Il a pris un temps d’arrêt afin de s’occuper de la carrière du jeune champion du monde Lucian Bute, mais comme le personnage de Rocky (on va dire celui du 5ième film…), il continue de croire que le champion du monde qu’il était en 2001 est le même qu’aujourd’hui… Il s’entraîne en ce moment à Miami avec Bute pour un autre retour dans l’arène. Là, ça devient un problème…

Si ce n’était pas de Stéphan Larouche qui l’a raisonné un peu, Lucas lançait le défi à Kessler pour une revanche. Imaginez-vous le massacre? Éric à 38 ans…il a peut-être le coeur gros comme le Stade Olympique mais jamais il ne pourra réussir un tel exploit! J’aime pas être négatif mais faut être réaliste quand même!

Si son but est de se mettre en forme afin d’affronter des boxeurs locaux et de donner un bon spectacle, c’est correct… Mais si son retour est motivé par un championnat du monde, il devra faire une croix là-dessus… Qu’est-ce que ça prendra à Éric Lucas afin d’atteindre la rédemption? Une revanche contre Marcus Beyer? On le saura bien assez tôt…

Monday October 12th, 2009
by Alex McIntyre – OnThEGRiND BoXiNG Scotland

With all the hype surrounding the upcoming Super Six World Boxing Classic one could be forgiven for thinking that the very best of the division will be represented in this revolutionary new tournament, but one man who never made it to the party has a super showdown of his own coming up on Nov 28th and he’s aiming to show the world that Ken Hershman missed a beat by not inviting him to compete in the competition to crown an outright Super Middleweight Champion.

Lucian Bute has almost become the division’s forgotten man in world terms, but Bute can always count on his loyal fan base in his naturalized home of Quebec,Canada. Since coming over from Romania six years ago and hooking up with trainer Stéphan Larouche, Bute has developed a strong bond with the Canuck masses and his fights at the Bell Centre in Montreal can produce some of the best atmospheres in World Boxing today. With nearly 15,000 screaming French-Canadian’s cheering on their hero, Bute enjoys a rare following that could be rivaled only by the likes of a Ricky Hatton or a Manny Pacquiao.

The still undefeated IBF champion has some good wins under his belt too with victory’s over Sakio Bika, Librado Andrade, Fulgencio Zuniga and Alejandro Berrio but he is still to make the step up to face a truly elite opponent, and now finds himself in the position of playing a waiting game for the eventual winner of the Super Six. In the meantime Bute has unfinished business to attend to with his rematch against Librado Andrade, and he’ll tackle the tough Mexican once again to silence the critics who say he got lucky in their first fight by surviving Referee Marlon B. Wright’s “long count” to win a highly controversial UD.

After controlling Andrade for most of the night and while well ahead on the cards, Bute faded badly down the stretch and so nearly paid the ultimate price with Andrade finally catching up and flooring him in the sensational final round. As the referee Wright was more concerned with Andrade and getting him to a neutral corner, Bute clawed himself up and appeared to beat the count, although many observers say the count was long and Bute got the decision victory by the skin of his teeth. Challenger Andrade was furious. “He was completely out,” said Andrade. “I didn’t come out of the corner. I don’t know what Wright was talking about. It was outrageous.”

So while all eyes will be on Berlin,Nottingham and Oakland this fall, Bute and Andrade will duke it out again, this time in Quebec City, Canada, and Bute will be out to impress. He has all the skills to get past Andrade again, but questions over stamina remain and Andrade knows that his pressure nearly paid off last time. This rematch has some intriguing qualities and could very well upstage the more glamorous fights of the Super Six.

What the future holds for Bute is a little cloudy, if he does indeed get past Andrade again he must deal with the fact that the division is currently drained of future opponents. Unless Kelly Pavlik makes the jump to 168lbs. Bute has little chance of getting a big fight for quite some time. Although Allen Green is currently riding high in the IBF rankings, and while he might not be such an attractive opponent for Bute, he may just find that there’s nobody else left that’s worth fighting. Bute vs Stieglitz…? Oh brother!!!

There’s defending the sport when it needs defending, and there’s acknowledging the truth when it’s evident: Boxing didn’t cover itself in glory over the weekend, in ways both grand and small.

Timothy Bradley-Nate Campbell ended in a way that left a bad taste in just about everybody’s mouths. On the same Showtime junior welterweight card, Junior Witter stank up the joint against Devon Alexander then quit, confusingly. HBO’s documentary on the Resto-Collins scandal revealed the ugliest side of the sport. A prominent trainer, Roger Mayweather — uncle of Floyd Jr. — got arrested for allegations that he beat and strangled a woman. A second autopsy of Arturo Gatti dragged out what has turned into a sordid saga. A promoter is threatening to sue everyone associated with Mikkel Kessler’s involvement with the highly-anticipated “Super Six” super middleweight tournament.

The good news from the weekend is… uh… yeah there was none. Maybe, though, we can try to mitigate some of the damage done.

Bradley-Campbell

By now, what went down should be familiar to all — head butt caused the fight to be stopped, Bradley awarded a win when a no contest is the most obvious ruling — but read here for a fuller recap.

So what are our available solutions?

One is an appeal. That’s filed. I hope the California commission does the right thing and turns the fight into a no contest. It might, it might not. The precedent is James Toney-Hasim Rahman II, but in that case, as someone pointed out (I can’t remember whom), the referee ruled the injury was the result of a head butt. It remains to be seen whether the California commission will do about Bradley-Campbell referee David Mendoza’s mealy-mouthed explanation for why the fight ended in a TKO, i.e., there was a head butt and there was a punch.

Some have called for boxing to adopt instant replay. Yes, by all means, yes. There’d be no problems today if boxing had instant replay. The investment is very much worth it: Blown referee calls account for a very sizable percentage of occasions in which people are turned off of the sport. There’s simply no good reason not to do it. Nevada will soon consider a modified instant replay rule, and it’s a great start. What Nevada does, the rest of the country often follows.

I disagree with some aspects of this Franklin McNeil column, but he’s right on the point I italicized:

On August 8, UFC 101 will be held at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia. The place will be sold out and just about every paying customer will be seated when the main card kicks off. And rest assure, a fighter won’t quit if his elbow hurts, and a rematch will be in the works if a dispute arises at the end of a bout.

For better or worse, boxing operates in almost a pure free market in many ways, and in this case, I say it’s for the worse. The UFC’s near-monopoly on the sport means the organization can boss its fighters around for better or for worse. In this case, I say it’s better.

Certainly, you’ll find people today who argue, “Who would want to see a rematch of this fight? Bradley was owning him and was going to knock him out.” To which I say, initially, there is a school out there, although it is a minority, that thought both of the first two rounds were close. There is another school out there, signficantly larger, that notes Campbell historically does his best work late in fights. Bradley didn’t own Campbell until the 3rd round head butt. And there is another school out there that says whether Bradley was going to win or not, Campbell was robbed of his chance to try, and he deserves a rematch.

That there is any question about what might have or should have happened — from any of those schools — is more than enough to warrant a rematch. There’s a reason the UFC has such brand loyalty. I really do think that based on what I know of the UFC that if something like Bradley-Campbell happened in mixed martial arts, the risk of alienating some fans would be more than enough to warrant a mandatory rematch.

As it is, we only have market pressure to make a rematch happen. What’s the downside? Bradley’s not going to fight Manny Pacquiao tomorrow, so it’s not like there’s some massively bigger purse a rematch would rob him of. Indeed, if it’s “easy money” to do it over, as he claims, why not fight Campbell again? Think, as well, of the good will it would endgender. I respect Bradley’s skills and toughness, but I’m not a fan, in part because I think he’s one of the dirtiest fighters in the sport right now with the way he head butts every. single. person. he fights. But I’d have enormously nice things to say about him if he did the just thing and gave Campbell another chance.

The damage to Campbell’s reputation is done, unless he gets a rematch and owns Bradley back. I’m of the mind that he is the victim of an injustice, and I’m also of the mind that his desire to have the fight stopped is as defensible a “quit” as you’ll find. He was blind in one eye — unless he’s just a flagrant liar, but when has he ever behaved that way? — and his health could have been in severe jeopardy. Fortunately, no permanent damage was done, per the first link above. But if he’d kept fighting, is there any likelihood he’d be able to say that today? Not only would he have kept taking shots in the eye, he also would have not seen many of them coming.

But there are a good many people who think Campbell flat wanted out of the fight because he was getting his ass kicked, and I don’t think that’s entirely out of the question. Part of Campbell’s appeal is that he was a tough hombre, and even if he “quit” defensibly, he does seem like less of a tough hombre today, doesn’t he? Furthermore, he really hurt himself by wanting the fight stopped before he knew whether the referee had ruled the injury was the result of a head butt. He very much risked the TKO loss he says he didn’t want by pressing for that.

The appropriateness of Campbell quitting is a little different, ultimately, from what happened on the undercard.

Alexander-Witter

When the most interesting thing that happens on a double-header is that the two endings are interesting in a bad way, that is not a good thing. Witter quit, and while I don’t have his doctor’s report handy to discern whether his elbow was really badly damaged, I’m more suspect of Witter than I am Campbell. Witter, unlike Campbell, does have a tendency of rolling over when the pressure on, as he did late in his own fight against Bradley. Combined with the fact that Witter made the fight suck to high heaven, the ending really didn’t please anyone.

But let me go back to McNeil, and italicize a different portion of his remarks:

On August 8, UFC 101 will be held at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia.
The place will be sold out and just about every paying customer will be
seated when the main card kicks off. And rest assure, a fighter won’t
quit if his elbow hurts, and a rematch will be in the works if a dispute arises at the end of a bout.

Actually, fighters in mixed martial arts routinely quit when a body part hurts. It’s called “tapping out,” and it’s not looked down upon in MMA the way it is in boxing. What if Witter’s elbow was broken? Was he supposed to keep fighting on? If a mixed martial artist got his elbow broken in a submission move, everyone would think he was crazy for NOT tapping out.

Now, on this, I’m quite open to standing corrected. Unlike a lot of MMA writers who think they know a lot about boxing, I candidly admit I know very little about MMA. If I’m wrong, again, I really hope someone will tell me why. Witter quitting the way he did looked suspicious, but it’s not like it’s a knock on boxing for him to quit if indeed his elbow was badly damaged.

Assault In The Ring

I don’t have much for this one. That Panama Lewis, after all he has done and allegedly done — illegal cocktails, plaster of Paris, stuffing removed from gloves — continues to be an active player in boxing is nothing but a stain on boxing. He’s banned from working the corner of active boxers, but he still trains them away from the fights. I don’t suppose you can initiate a blanket ban forbidding him contact with all boxers, so perhaps the ban on him now is the best that can be done.

It’s just remarkable that he’d have any opportunities as a trainer at all. Lewis clearly will throw his boxers under the bus then turn his back on them as quickly as he kissed up to them to start, so what’s the advantage of having him as your trainer? That he once was considered a good trainer? Surely there are enough good trainers out there that everyone could do better, right? Why would Zab Judah need Lewis, when, with his talent, he could have found a decent AND reputable trainer? Is the thinking that Lewis can train his charges in the dark arts of cheating? There’s some strange version of the free market at work here, maybe, but it’s a deeply dysfunctional version.

Lewis’ existence reinforces all the nasty stereotypes about boxing, some earned, some exaggerated. For that reason, I can’t really object too strongly to this Deadspin post entitled “‘Assault In The Ring’ Reminds You To Hate Boxing Forever.” Speaking of the documentary’s three major subjects, Lewis, Billy Collins, Jr. and Luis Resto, Dashiell Bennett writes:

Watching Lewis and Resto move through the shady underbelly of boxing, the whole movie is just a stunning reminder that boxing is run by some of the most corrupt and selfish people that walk the Earth. A boxing match between two well-matched contenders is a sight to behold, but it’s hard to show any support for pugilism when you stop to think about what everyone involved had to do to get there. Or where they will end up, once they’ve outlived their usefulness. Rightly or wrongly, Lewis comes off as the consummate con-artist a man who casually threw away Collins’ and then Resto’s, lives in search of a big payday. The film is not entirely objective, but you don’t have to know much about boxing to know that Lewis is not alone.

To which I responded in the comments section (with a screen name that was arbitrarily assigned to me):

This documentary even made me, as a HUGE boxing fan, feel at a loss for words to defend the sport. I will say this, though — Panama Lewis may be the scumbaggiest scumbag in the history of boxing, and Resto-Collins probably its worst-ever scandal from top to bottom, all of which is really saying something. There have been a lot of terrible science fiction movies made in the history of mankind, but if you watched “Battlefield Earth” and said, “This is why I will hate science fiction movies forever,” I’m not sure it would be all that apt.

And that’s the most mitigatin’ I can do here.

Roger Mayweather

Really: Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. But if unca Mayweather did what he was accused of — assaulting a woman — it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Roger had already been jailed on domestic assault once. Nephew Floyd, Jr. has been convicted of assaulting a woman and accused another time. If they did it, well, there aren’t many angels in boxing. Many of them have demons, as I’ve recently discussed, even the ones held up as “good guys.”

But look, I just am not comfortable with serial woman-beaters being “the face of boxing,” as Floyd, Jr.’s adviser Leonard Ellerbe said of the man who calls himself “Money.” Again, I try to judge boxing figures for what they do in the ring more than I do what they do outside it, but there’s something so offensive about hitting a woman, and it’s what Floyd and Roger have been convicted of doing and, in the case of Roger, newly accused of doing.

The good news, if there is any, is that very few people consider the Mayweathers “the face of boxing” who aren’t a member of their inner circle. Floyd has fans, and he is of course a ridiculously gifted boxer. There are people who think Roger is a good trainer, and I’m one of them. But the “face of boxing” right now as far as I’m concerned is Manny Pacquiao, and we’re all a little better for that. Pacquiao’s had his own rough spots, but he’s largely conducted himself like a gentleman; I’ve not heard of any occasions where he beat up a female, anyhow.

Arturo Gatti

I’m almost finished with this post and I practically want to throw up. Gatti’s new autopsy allegedly uncovered all kinds of injuries the Brazilian police didn’t. And there’s a celebrity autopsy guy doing the autopsy. Then there’s this.

Lucian Bute, campionul mondial IBF, îşi va pune din nou în joc centura la supermijlocie în faţa mexicanului Librado Andrade, deoarece licitaţia de organizare a meciului a fost câştigată de firma Golden Boy, cea care îl impresariază pe mexican. Conform presei canadiene, meciul urmează să se dispute în Statele Unite ale Americii.

Golden Boy a câştigat licitaţia cu oferta de 1.211.000 de dolari, aceasta fiind cu 16.000 de dolari mai mare decât cea a celor de la Interbox. Data meciului va fi stabilită de promotorul mexicanului în maxim 15 zile. De asemenea, nu se ştie precis unde se va disputa meciul, dar presa canadiană a informat că va fi organizat pe teritoriul Statelor Unite ale Americii. Lucian Bute va avea o bursă de 908.000 de dolari, reprezentând 75% din suma totală.

Referitor la acest meci, Bute a spus: “Sunt dezamăgit că nu voi boxa la Montreal, dar sunt gata să lupt cu oricine, oriunde. Cel mai important este că voi lupta din nou cu Andrade. În fiecare zi intru în sala de antrenament cu dorinţa de a înlătura toate îndoielile apărute după ultimul minut al rundei a 12-a din meciul cu el”.

Lucian Bute şi-a apărat ultima oară centura de campion mondial la versiunea IBF în luna martie când l-a învins pe Fulgencio Zuniga prin KO tehnic, în repriza a 4-a. Bute şi Andrade s-au întâlnit în octombrie 2008, când românul şi-a păstrat centura învingând la puncte după 12 reprize.

Bute a devenit campion mondial la 20 octombrie 2007 după ce l-a învins pe Alejandro Berrio

by Madcow

Welcome to a very special edition of  The Standing 8 Count. Ok, not really. Actually, this is another slow news week.

So, seeing that there’ll be nothing worth talking about until next week when Alfredo Angulo makes Kermit Cintron weep like a little school girl, I thought I’d share another personal list with my dozens upon dozens of loyal Mad Bovines.

Last week, I wrote about what I hated about boxing. This week I’m feeling all warm and fuzzy inside, so I’ll flip in the opposite direction and talk about what I love about boxing.

* I love the way the Super Middleweight division is shaping up: Carl Froch, Mikkel Kessler, Librado Andrade, Lucian Bute, Andre Ward, Andre Dirrell, Allan Green, Jermain Taylor, Jean Pascal and in a short while Arthur Abraham and Kelly Pavlik. I sure hope greedy promoters and cable companies don’t ruin this.

* I love the blind optimism behind fans of Chris Arreola. Here’s a guy who is practically obese and has ever beaten anyone tougher than a tough night club bouncer, yet some people rate this blob as the best American Heavyweight. I know the big boys aren’t a deep bunch these days, but Arreola ain’t the best of an entire nation.

* I love the Tecate ring card girls in Tijuana. These are the only ring card girls in the world where I know that with some elementary Spanish and a few bucks in my pocket, I can bring these chicas back to the Hotel Paraiso with me.

* I love the way Floyd Mayweather Jr. riles up both haters and nut-huggers alike. Say what you will, but it feels good to see some real emotion injected into the sport.

* I love seeing fights in Las Vegas and I love the big fight atmosphere in Sin City. Vegas is Boxing and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. If you don’t like all night Blackjack binges in dim casinos, surrounded by whores and bad, bad people after a big prize fight I seriously question your manhood. Boxing shouldn’t be a “bring the whole family” event like the Ice Capades.

* I love fighters who actually take the time to learn the art of professions prize fighting. These are the guys who know how to walk properly, they know how to cut off the ring, they know how to properly set up their punches, and they know a little something called “defense.”

* I love my old fight films.

* I love what Showtime has been doing with their matchmaking lately.

* I love Denise Tarver and Jin Mosley and the crazy night we’ve had in my imagination.

* I love the back and forth struggles of an evenly-matched bout.

* I love the intenet for allowing me to be able to see even more boxing than I could imagine.

* I love when an undeserving bum of a fighter like Margarito gets what’s coming to him and publicly flogged by the entire boxing world.

* I love to get hateful e-mails from Manny Pacquiao fans: P4P, Boxing’s goofiest goof balls.

* I love the idea of Rick Hatton fans having to get back on the plane for the long ride home knowing that they just came to see Hatton mugged once again.

* I love that if our other blog takes off, I’m gonna start getting paid! http://btbc-boxing.blogspot.com/

Alright, enough with the happy thoughts. Next week I’ll be back with my regular rage and whiskey- filled column.

Until next Sunday, keep your friends close and your bribe money closer.

So long, ladies.

by Madcow

Yes, its Sunday and that means another addition of The Standing 8 Count, Boxing’s turd in the punch bowl. Hold your applause ’til the end.

My Saturday afternoon was to be a very nice affair. A nice, early lunch, a “high-end” lady friend and Alexander Povetkin vs. Jason Estrada to top it all off. Well, I had the lunch and the lady. Then, as I tried to take in the Heavyweight fight from Germany, sleep overtook me- Boring, safety-first plod-fests tend to have that impact on people. I tried my damndest to stay awake, but I was out like a light by the fourth. By the time I got up, my lady was gone and so was my watch, a portable dvd player and 80 bucks from the nightstand. Wilfried Sauerland, you and your boring-ass fighters owe me about 400 bucks, total! And I’d like that money before the next Nikolay Valuev fight!

Still steaming from the Sauerland-induced coma and resulting theft, I was hardly in the mood for more Boxing. But I’m sure glad I didn’t give up just yet. The rest of the evening saw 6 fights, each entertaining in their own way. By the end of the night, I had forgotten my tragic afternoon delight.

The Lightweight Lightning PPV and the Showtime Championship Boxing show proved to me once again that Boxing needn’t be just scandals surrounded by mismatches and shoved into 50 dollar PPV’s.

In a world where Jones/Sheika, Khan/Barrera and Chavez Jr./Cuello are all PPV main events and the bitter aftertaste of the Antonio Plasterito scandal is still fresh in our mouths, we needed a night like last night to cleanse our suffering palates in preperation for the quality fights to come.

Lightweight Lightning gave us 3 quality showdowns and a glimpse at the freak show called Edwin Valero. The show took care of business in telling us that: A) Julio Diaz and Jesus Chavez are finished, B) Vicente Escobedo is good, but needs the type of education fighters get from fighting guys like Carlos Hernandez and C) Valero makes Edison Miranda look like “Sweet Pea” Whitaker.

Speaking of Valero, there’s something almost sad in the way he’s been sheltered. 2-time champ or not, he needs to go to school a lot more before looking for a spot on the varsity team. Right now, he’d be little more than a light snack for guys like Juan Manuel Marquez, Nate Campbell or Manny Pacquiao.

The Showtime card featured a unification of the WBC and WBO Jr. Welterweight titles. Timothy Bradley overcame 2 bookend knockdowns and an obvious physical disadvantage to get the unanimous decision. Kendall Holt accounted for himself very well, but the li’l guy Bradley was as tenacious as those Jehovah Witnesses I locked up in my basement that one time. It’s a shame that neither fighter, unless they beat up an emaciated Oscar De la Hoya has a chance of landing a shot at the Ring Magazine and lineal champ, Ricky Hatton.

The opening bout on that Showtime card pitted Librado Andrade against Vitaly Tsypko in an IBF Super Middleweight Eliminator. IBF champ, Lucian Bute, was in the audience looking like he wanted Tsypko to win so badly. When Andrade won an easy Unanimous decision, Bute gave him the “thumbs up” and then desperately urged his assistant to send some flowers to Montreal’s resident crooked ref, Marlon B. Wright.

The long-awaited (and I mean loooong awaited) bout between Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye is finally official for June 20th. Haye had to agree to another match with the Klitschko of their choosing should he win, then a fight with the other Klitschko, then a rematch with the Klitschko who got the first bout. Also, on the contract: Haye has to fight in high-heeled KISS boots, he has to eat nothing but Spam and Yoohoo for the 6 weeks prior to the fight and he has to wear the spit bucket over his head in every even-numbered round.

A tip for you, Klit bros.: Don’t act so scared. All its gonna take is one stiff jab or the breeze from a left hook and Haye is toast…or an English Muffin, whatever the case may be.

Now its time for me to go back to my online watch shopping, but remember: Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars! or was that “Keep your knees on the bed and keep reaching for the pillow?” I can’t remember, but I guess both’ll work.

In emisiunea din 15.03.2009 Mircea Badea vorbeste frumos despre Lucian Bute spunand (reproduc din memorie) ca la victoria boxeurului roman a fost una dintre putinele ocazii in care s`a simtit mandru ca este roman.

Asta e ca si cum as lua eu un Algocalmin atunci cand ma doare o masea cariata . Mai mult de 10 minute nu ma ajuta !

PS. i`mi mentin  parerea ca cel mai mare ghinion pe luma asta e sa te nasti roman.

Dupa cum ati stiut .. sau daca nu ati stiut stiti acuma Lucian Bute boxer profesionist ramane Campion Mondial !!! Bravo domnu` toata stima .

De azi, el are in palmares 23 de victorii, dintre care 19 prin knock-out , sta bine , este al 3-lea campion mondial dupa Leonard Doroftei si Mihai Leu , bravo !

Lucian Bute si-a pastrat titlul mondial IBF la categoria supermijlocie, in cadrul meciului din aceasta dimineata disputat la Montreal, Canada. Tehnica de KO a romanului l-a lasat pe columbianul Fulgencio Zuniga in a patra runda, dupa un uppercut la corp, numarat. Ha! S-a uitat cineva?

Lucian Bute a devenit campion mondial in octombrie [19], 2007, in lupta cu Alejandro Berrio. E a treia oara cand campionul isi apara centura cu diamante si reuseste! Bravo!

Lucian Bute si-a aparat pentru a treia oara titlul mondial la categoria supermijlocie, versiunea IBF, dupa ce l-a facut KO pe columbianul Fulgencio Zuniga, in repriza a patra a unei meci desfasurat la Montreal.

Dupa o usoara dominatie in primele 3 reprize Bute a atacat decisiv inca din debutul rundei a patra. Zuniga a fost pus la podea dupa o lovitura la corp. Columbianul s-a ridicat insa Bute a atacat excelent si arbitrul a fost nevoit sa intrerupa partida si sa-i acorde victoria romanului.

Asadar victorie!E imbucurator ca prin state si in general prin afara sunt oameni care fac ca uneori sa se auda si de bine de Romania…si cel mai important,  faptul ca Lucian Bute este unul dintre oamenii care ne fac sa fim mandri ca suntem romani…chiar daca sentimentul asta apare rar.

Si daca stam sa ne gandim ca baiatul asta are 23 de victorii…dintre care 19 prin Knockout si NICIO infrangere…merita tot respectul.

Bute a fost din nou fantastic! In fata a 12.000 de oameni aflati in Canada in cea mai mare sala de hochei din lume, Bute si-a aparat pentru a 3-a oara centura mondiala, si inca cum! L-a facut KO pe Zuniga in doar 4 runde!
A primit doar 4 pumni tot meciul si a dat cu nemiluita. In ultima repriza, Bute l-a pus la podea pe Zuniga, care a fost numarat de arbitru. Columbianul s-a ridicat, dar doar visa in acel moment, nu mai boxa! Bute a sarit pe el si l-a naucit cu pumnii, arbitrul a intervenit si a declarat KO !

Nu sunt adeptul batailor fizice,fie ea si organizata si cosmetizata sub forma de sport.

Trebuie sa recunosc insa ca acum o vreme ii tineam pumnii,da,pumnii mei pacifisti lui Doroftei.

Astazi,Lucian Bute este noul nostru erou la aruncat cu pumnii si suntem alaturi de el,ca e al nostru si ne reprezinta.Acesta va lupta cu Fulgencio Zuniga.

“Eu am castigat meciul impotriva lui Andrade si nu arbitrii. Arbitrul poate veni si din Columbia, nu-mi pasa! Meciul va fi castigat cu ce voi face in ring. Imi voi face treaba si voi arata tuturor ca merit sa raman campion” a declarat Bute ca reactie la acuzatiile ca ar fi protejat de arbitrii.

Go BUTE!

Euro trece pragul de 4,3 lei
Banca Nationala a Roma-ni-ei a stabilit, ieri, un curs de referinta de 4,3025 lei pentru un euro, ceea ce reprezinta un nou maxim istoric. Moneda nationala a pier-dut 28 de bani in fata euro de la inceputul anului. Moneda europeana a crescut cu un ban in fata leului fata de sedinta de luni, cand a fost cotata la 4,2917 lei.

Flamingo inchide 15 magazine mici
Retailerul de produse electronice, electrocasnice si IT&C Flamingo va inchide, pana la sfarsitul acestei luni, aproximativ 15 magazine, cu suprafete mici, din cauza scaderii vanzarilor, pe fondul diminuarii consumului. “Vor fi inchise in special magazine Flamingo Computers, dar si din reteaua Flanco”, a declarat, ieri, Jiri Rizek, directorul executiv al grupului, citat de Mediafax.

Bute va boxa la Montreal
Conducerea clubului Interbox a decis ca Lucian Bute, campionul mondial la categoria supermijlocie in versiunea IBF, sa isi apere centura la mijlocul lunii martie, intr-un meci care se va disputa la Montreal. Sportivul roman va da piept cu ucraineanul Vitali Tipko sau cu americanul Jeff Lacey, dupa ce principalii rivali, Mads Larsen si Mikkel Kessler, au decis sa se confrunte intr-un meci direct.