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Cloutier’s Canada Corner
Successful Surgery For Lucian
Bute
By Daniel Cloutier
MONTRÉAL - The InterBox Group confirmed Thursday that Lucian
Bute had a successful surgery in Miami. The Dr. Veronica
Pedro has proceeded to this surgery in a Miami hospital. She
took out several bone's fragments from his left hand. She
said the surgery was successful. Bute will have the left
hand in a cast by the end of the week.
Bute (31-1-0), the former IBF super middleweight champion of
the world, has been obliged to stop his training Monday in
Florida, because terrible pains in his left hand. Bute, a
Montrealer, was preparing himself to face another Montrealer,
Jean Pascal (27-2-1), May 25th at Bell Centre in Montréal,
in a NABF light heavyweight championship that HBO was
supposed to televise.
Pascal, on his side, is furious. “According some sources
around the InterBox Group, Bute had constant pain in his
left hand since his win against Glencoffe Johnson in Québec
City in December 2011,” said Pascal. “When InterBox
suggested to the GYM Group to organize this fight between
Lucian and me last winter, never this specific information
has been revealed to us. After months of training, suddenly,
the information is revealed. It is unacceptable for me.”
Pascal, who does not want to stay inactive to the fall, has
contacted the promoter of the GYM Group, Yvon Michel, to ask
him to include him on the June 8th boxing show. That night,
at Bell Centre, the Montrealer Adonis Stevenson (20-1-0)
will try to dethrone the American Chad Dawson (31-2-0) as
WBC light heavyweight champion of the world. Yvon Michel,
who said his card is now completed for June 8th, is trying
to find a solution for Pascal.
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