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Tearful Celebration As
Bute Demolishes Mendy In 4
By Bill Cenan @ Ringside
Tears of joy streamed down the face of IBF Super
middleweight champion Lucian Bute (29-0, 24 KO’s) as he
defeated his mandatory challenger Jean Paul Mendy (29-1-0,16
KO’s) in a dominant performance in front of Bute’s hometown
Romanian fans. Bute had no trouble with Mendy at all and was
relaxed and patient in the ring all night, he was scoring at
will. Bute landed some sharp uppercuts in the early going
and it was a left uppercut that really hurt Mendy in round 3
that was the beginning of the end. Mendy survived that round
and it looked like he may get out of round 4 alive when Bute
landed a swift right/left combo that sent Mendy down in his
face. The left hand came over the top and landed flush on
Mendy’s chin, he didn’t see that punch coming and it spelled
doom for the Frenchman.
With the impressive win Bute has once again proven he sits
firmly on top of the 168 pound division and Super Six or
not, the road to the top of the Super Middleweight division
clearly runs through Montreal by way of Romania.
Undercard Results
Featherweight Jun Talape took a "Bute-Like" hook to the
liver from Romanian Viorel Simion in round 8 and went down
for good. Simion won over the crowd and took the WBC
International featherweight title.
Super bantamweight Sahib Usarov decisioned Sergio Gomez over
8
Light welterweight Pier Olivier Cote decisioned Pedro
Navarrete over 8
Super middleweight Renan St Juste decisioned Jaudiel Zepeda
over 8
Heavyweight Bogdan Dinu KO'd Awadh Tamim in 1, time: 2:27
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