Lucian Bute News

Super-middleweight contender Lucian Bute of Montreal will face a tough lefthanded opponent when he fights Sergey Tatevosyan of Russia on Dec. 1 at the Bell Centre, promoter InterBox announced Thursday. Tatevosyan (25-6) is coming off a victory by TKO in the seventh round in Copenhagen on Saturday over Rudy Markussen of Denmark, the WBO's No. 1 contender. Bute, also a southpaw, was in the seats for that bout and Dane ...

Super-middleweight contender Lucian Bute of Montreal pulled out of an Oct. 14 fight card in Denmark on Wednesday with a swollen right hand. Bute, a southpaw, suffered the minor injury in his eighth-round TKO victory over James Obede Toney of Ghana on Friday at the Bell Centre. The Romania native was scheduled to fight in the co-feature in Copenhagen behind a title unification bout between WBC champ Markus Beyer of ...

Lucian Bute of Montreal retained his three minor titles when he stopped James Obede Toney of Ghana at 2:49 of the eighth round of their super-middleweight bout on Friday night. Bute (18-0, 16 knock-outs) had Toney (18-2-1) against the ropes, landing punches at will, when referee Mike Griffin stepped in to end the scheduled 12-round fight before a crowd of 8,072 at the Bell Centre. Bute, ranked in the top five by the WBC and the WBA, ...

Lucian Bute of Montreal had to sweat to make the weight limit Thursday for his minor super-middleweight title fight with Ghanian James Obede Toney. Bute (17-0) made the 168-pound limit, but only after pedalling off some extra poundage. Bute spent much of the summer on vacation in his native Romania and had a shorter than usual training camp. The dynamic lefthander is to face Toney (18-1-1) with the NABF, NABA ...

Lucian Bute, the WBO Intercontinental super-middleweight boxing champion, will take on James Obede Toney on Sept. 15. Bute, whose record is 17-0, will be up against an opponent whose 18-1-1 record includes 16 knockouts. Toney is a native of Ghana but now lives in the U.S. and fights for the Don King group. Bute, a Romanian who has fought out of Montreal since 2003, won the super-middleweight title last May ...