Browsing Tag Lucian Bute
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The Weekend That Was
It was a busy weekend in the fight game with major cards on both Friday and Saturday night and several action-packed scraps. When the smoke cleared there were ...
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Top Men: Connor’s Take
This week Patrick Connor flies solo on Top Men Boxing Radio with plenty to reflect upon and discuss. Last weekend’s HBO double-header merits some attention. Gennady Golovkin, who humbled ...
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Bute: Confident & Dangerous
One of boxing’s most intriguing stories of the last few years continues to unfold with the next chapter to be written Saturday night at the historic DC Armory ...
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Invite To The Alien
Will he or won’t he? That’s the question on the minds of die-hard fans of “The Alien,” or, if you prefer, “The Executioner.” Or how about just the ...
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Casino Boxing Series Returns
For over seven years, pro boxing was an entertainment staple at the Cabaret in the Casino de Montreal but, for various reasons, the fights stopped. Considering that championship ...
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Robert Levesque’s DeGale vs Bute Photo Gallery
Robert Levesque is one of Canada’s most prolific boxing photographers, a fixture at every event in The Fight City, his face and camera always ringside. His passion for ...
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Fight Report: DeGale vs Bute
The Event An intriguing match-up in several respects, DeGale vs Bute pretty much guaranteed an interesting outcome of some kind. This was a contest between two unanswered questions: how ...
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Chris Ganescu: “Bute Is Exceptional”
For manager Chris Ganescu, boxing is a passion. Which is not surprising considering his father competed in the squared circle back in his native country of Romania. Chris ...
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Expect The Unexpected
Boxing, it is said, is “the theater of the unexpected,” but this statement naturally applies more to some fights than others. In the case of this Saturday’s clash ...
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Cotto vs Canelo: The Fight City Picks (Part 3)
In Part 1 we got insight from Otis Grant,David Loiseau, Howard Grant and Dwayne “Diamond” Durel. In Part 2 we heard from, among others, promoter Yvon Michel, hot prospect Yves ...
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Lucian Bute Ready For DeGale
On most days a visitor to the Grant Brothers Boxing Gym in Dorval, a suburb of Montreal, encounters a crowded room teeming with noise and energy as both amateur ...
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Otis Grant On GGG vs Lemieux
This writer tried but failed to make it out to the Grant Brothers Gym in Montreal earlier today for something called a “Boxe-O-Thon,” though it wasn’t due to ...
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Exclusive Interview with Howard Grant
Trainer Howard Grant sits down with Manny Montreal to give his thoughts on Lucian Bute’s comeback win last week, as well as his involvement with Patrick Côté on ...
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Manny Montreal’s Bute vs Di Luisa Photo Gallery
Last night was a big night indeed for Montreal boxing fans, and for our own Manny Montreal who was ringside to catch every second of the action. Check out ...
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Lucian Bute Is Back
For sheer emotion, it will be a moment hard to top in Montreal sports for 2015: Lucian Bute at ring center, holding aloft his fist, still wrapped in ...
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Ulysse Jr Talks Bute
It was one of the stranger things anyone has seen of late at the Bell Centre in Montreal. There were the two fighters, in the ring, ready to ...
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Bute And Di Luisa Face Off
It takes a little time for this writer to identify the peculiar element in the atmosphere at the final press conference for the Premier Boxing Champions card taking ...
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Bute In Training
Former super-middleweight world champion Lucian Bute returns to action on August 15 in Montreal, his first bout since his loss to Jean Pascal 18 months ago. The match will ...
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Lucian Bute: The Return
Lucian Bute is far more comfortable communicating in his native Romanian, or in French, the official language of his adopted home city of Montreal, but during his talk ...
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Francis Lafreniere: Confidence Rising
Few sports have a history as rich as boxing’s and one does not have to look too far back to recall when defeats were not regarded as reasons ...
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How To Make A Pariah Preeminent
This past Saturday during the Pascal vs Kovalev event at the Bell Centre in Montreal, a strange thing happened. On the huge screen above the ring, an elegantly tailored ...
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A War in The Fight City
It was an all out war in Montreal, as Sergey Kovalev and Jean Pascal put on one of the best action fights of the year so far, maybe ...
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Kovalev vs Pascal: Media Day Picks
Yesterday saw media and champions congregate at a restaurant in Boucherville, Quebec of all places to help hype Saturday’s big light-heavyweight showdown, Jean Pascal vs Sergey Kovalev and ...
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Kovalev vs Pascal: Conference Call
While everyone has had Mayweather vs Pacquiao on the brain the last several days, the fact remains other significant events are upcoming in boxing. Those behind next month’s ...
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Quebec to Close 2014 In Style
The rumours they are a-fluttering that the province of Quebec will host not one but two stacked cards in the month of December, giving boxing fans the chance ...
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Bute vs Pascal: Undercard Report
Last Saturday’s Pascal vs Bute showdown, and the fight immediately before it, were broadcast on HBO. But the evening featured five other matches presented jointly by Interbox and ...
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Fight Report: Bute vs Pascal
The Event Le Premier Chapitre Historique (The Historic First Chapter). One of the biggest fights ever held on Canadian soil. The informal eliminator for Adonis Stevenson’s world title. ...
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Kovalev And Stevenson Score Knockouts
Boxing fans got a heavy dose of what they love from Quebec City last night with plenty of knockouts and some great action. While those who tuned in ...
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Fight Report: Froch vs Bute
Even a die-hard fan of fisticuffs must search his memory to recall a blowout as unanticipated and surprising as what we witnessed last night when Carl Froch laid ...
