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Bute vs. Brinkley Post Fight
Overview
By Daniel Cloutier
I covered the fight between Bute-Brinkley and honestly my
prediction was that Bute would win by TKO in the second
round. But, it seems that Bute got the flu the day of the
fight. Because he was ill he was not sharp in defense, like
usual.
Bute's trainer Stephan Larouche said after the bout, "In the
dressing room, Lucian was watching on the screen the
Diaconu-Sheika's fight, and maybe his concentration on the
Brinkley's fight has been a bit affected. In the future, I
will suggest that Diaconu will not fight just before the
Lucian fights. Lucian and Diaconu are such good friends
(they are both Romanians). After the second round, Lucian
started to be productive with his uppercuts, because he
followed my advice. I told him to bend when he was close to
Brinkley, to be in better position to throw uppercuts."
Bute said, "Brinkley is very courageous. I sent him on the
floor three times (5th, 8th and 9th), and each time I was
sure that he was hurt enough to stay in the canvas and be
counted for 10. But each times, he survived, except in the
ninth round. I did pretty well offensively in most of the
rounds, but not defensively. I had some problems to adjust
to his unorthodox style. But, believe me, I did not take him
lightly."
Interbox's Jean Bédard said that Bute has a strong chances
to face Kelly Pavlik in March, on HBO, if Pavlik wins
against Bryan Vera in Dallas November 13th.The fight, he
said, would be presented in Montreal.
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