Comments Thread For: Bute Crushes Miranda, Could Bernard Hopkins Be Next?

[Boxingwizard]

Bute is not that good, and that's why Hopkins wants to fight him. Defense can't be found in this guy's vocabulary. Every jab, body punch, and power punch that Miranda threw hit the mark pretty much and he was actually doing good until he got caught. Pavlik dominated Miranda from bell to finish and so did Ward.

I think Hopkins is too old to hang with Bute. Bute would seriously hurt Hopkins.

[Jcsuper]

Wow, great fight for le tombeur !! I don't like the fact that all the big guys at 168 are in the super 6 tournament, the better thing to me for Bute is to stay really active, continue improve his style and his offense, and building himself a great confidence before he eventually take the super 6 winner. I like the fact that he is improving with his fight, at a certain point before the first Andrade fight I thought that he stopped letting his hands go, which is a big mistake considering he is naturally a big puncher ( at the beginning of his career his was knocking everybody ). Then in some fights he stopped letting his hands go and became to cautious, which is the reason I think Andrade came very close to surprise him. I think that him and Larouche saw that flaw and they worked on it, he need to use his left hand, ( left hook to the body and uppercut ).

Good luck to him, my prediction is that Ward will win the tournament and we'll see Bute against him after.

Bonne boxe félicitations Lucian

[bazookajoe]

I think Hopkins is too old to hang with Bute. Bute would seriously hurt Hopkins.

this is the truth

[Jcsuper]

Pascal is fighting Dawson August 14th in Montreal. Make it a doubleheader with Bute-Hopkins at the Olympic Stadium (around 52 000 seats I think...) and make the winners fight each other.

And then I wake up.

that would be sick, first boxing match at the Olympic Stadium since Leonard-Duran ( well I think, maybe im wrong)

[scarhead]

Everyone has been saying that Hopkins is old and that he'll get knocked out for years and it never happens.

B-Hop never loses by a large margin and he's knock out proof. It's true.

[Boxingwizard]

Everyone has been saying that Hopkins is old and that he'll get knocked out for years and it never happens.

B-Hop never loses by a large margin and he's knock out proof. It's true.

Bute is fast, really skilled, hits hard, and is three-dimensional unlike Pavlik. If B-Hop wants to keep his pride and not lose again, he better retire. Hopkins is not beating any of the top SMW or LHW boxers, let alone Lucian Bute.

[scarhead]

Bute is fast, really skilled, hits hard, and is three-dimensional unlike Pavlik. If B-Hop wants to keep his pride and not lose again, he better retire. Hopkins is not beating any of the top SMW or LHW boxers, let alone Lucian Bute.

Analyze it all you want. Bernard Hopkins will find a way to win.

[Boxingwizard]

Analyze it all you want. Bernard Hopkins will find a way to win.

He has never fought someone like Lucian Bute, did you see what he did to Miranda? If Hopkins was in his prime, yeah he would take Bute to school. But Hopkins is WAY past his prime, that's how much his skills diminished. He just doesn't have the stamina anymore to keep up with someone like BUte.

Hopkins needs to know his place, he shouldn't be fighting boxers like Bute, Dawson, Pascal, Haye, etc.

[Xol]

With Naz in B-Hops corner, anything can happen. I think that even at this stage in his career, Hopkins would be able to eke out a close decision. If not confuse and destroy Bute in the later rounds. The dudes too crafty.

Seriously though, I don't post much, but I read the forums almost every day... and I don't remember seeing this many Bute fans before. Did some of you get an insta-hard ons and now all of a sudden he's the second coming of boxing Jesus, or what?

[Freelancer]

bute should stay away from bhop. its a lose lose situation. you win, bhop is shot. you lose, you suck.

I sort of agree, to lose the *0* against Hopkins would kind of suck, but it would be interesting to see. Bute proved to have a very clear head in his last 3 fights but I don't know if he can keep that head in a ring with a verry annoying and experienced boxer like Hopkins.

What is safe to say is Bute needs to turn the knotch a bit up and find himself better oposition, to gain more trust, win more fights and shut some people up,close to impossible to remove doubts though untill he will be facing some Supersix competition.

I'd rather see him keep his *0* and take Stieglitz's belt than fight Hopkins, at least for the near future, aka next bout.