News - Lucian Bute

IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (25-0, 20 KOs) scored a fourth round KO over Librado Andrade (28-3, 21 KOs) on Saturday night Colisee Pepsi in Quebec City, Canada. Bute knocked down the normally iron-jawed Andrade with a left hook in round four then floored him for the count moments later with a body shot. Time 2:57 read more ...

Lucian Bute 166.8 vs. Librado Andrade 166.71 (IBF super middleweight championship) Joan Guzman 134.4 vs. Ali Funeka 133.9 (IBF lightweight championship) Pier-Olivier Cote 129.8 vs. Jason Hayward 129.8 read more ...

28 pro fights, 11-plus rounds, years behind the counter at Jack in the Box, and a lifetime of hard work and sacrifice had come down to this. It’s said that before you die, your entire life flashes before your eyes, but it was the opposite for Librado Andrade. As he saw IBF super middleweight titleholder Lucian Bute barely in control of his faculties as he attempted to struggle to his feet after a 12th round knockdown read more ...

Former EBU (European) super middleweight champion Vitali Tsypko is still recovering from his shoulder injury and doesn’t know when he will step into a ring again and whether it will happen in 2009 read more ...

BoxingScene.com was informed that Lucian Bute's rematch with Librado Andrade (28-2, 21 KOs) has been set for November 28, with the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada being the likely host. The fight will be televised on HBO's "Boxing after Dark." The first bout was televised by Showtime. InterBox, who promote Bute (24-0, 19 KOs), tried to get the rematch back on Showtime, but the network passed on the fight read more ...

This time there would be no controversy. IBF 168-pound world champion and hometown favorite Lucian Bute (24-0 19KO) laid a quick and efficient beatdown of Fulgencio Zuniga (22-4-1 19KO) handing the Columbian the quickest defeat of his eight year career with a TKO victory at 2:25 of the fourth round on Friday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. read more ...

Undefeated IBF super middleweight champion Lucien Bute (23-0, 18 KOs) barely made the second defense of his title against #1 ranked challenger Librado Andrade (27-2, 21 KOs) on Friday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. Bute battered the iron-jawed Andrade for most the fight, dropping him in round ten. Bute chose to slug it out with Andrade in round twelve and paid the price as Andrade caught him and nearly had Bute out read more ...

Lucian Bute 21-0 17KO) stopped IBF super-middleweight champion Alejandro Berrio (26-5 25KO) in the 11th round, landing a short left hand counter from the hard charging Columbian and the pouncing on the opportunity pummelling the champion with vicious head shots before referee Marlon B. Wright jumped and stopped the action. Berrio who was out on his feet had to be carried back to his corner while a joyous Bute dropped read more ...

The Montreal weather was worthy of Siberia, but that’s as welcome as Sergey Tatevosyan would feel as he lost a one-sided decision, 120-108, 119-109, 119-109 to Lucian Bute at the Bell Centre in front of 9087 enthusiastic fans. Bute was dominant throughout with Tatevosyan (25-7 15KO) who was ranked in the top ten by both the IBF and WBA. read more ...