Bute Gives a Perfect Performance in his Ninth Title Defence
Posted by Rick McLean on November 7, 2011 at 22:33 pm
By Jeff Emond Jeffrey
© Photos Courtesy Robert Levesque / A.R. PhotoZone
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On Saturday, November 5, 2011, Interbox presented Lucian Bute versus Glen Johnson from Quebec City, Quebec, live on Showtime PPV. The main event was complemented by six thrilling bouts featuring Pier Olivier Coté, Steve Molitor, Sebastien Gauthier, Sebastien Demers, Kevin Bizier and other talented pugilists. The event marked Lucian Bute’s first contest in Quebec City since his second fight with Librado Andrade. An impressive 15,306 fans were in attendance.
In the twelve round IBF super middleweight championship attraction, defending champion Lucian Bute ( 29-0-0, 24 KO), a native Romanian, now fighting out of Montreal, Quebec, faced the “Road Warrior” Glen Johnson ( 51-15-2, 35 KO), a former IBF light heavyweight champion from Miami, Florida. The contest marked Bute’s ninth title defence and Johnson’s second super middleweight title challenge in a row.
Johnson is a proud warrior with many accomplishments in the ring, including the 2004 fighter of the year award. The “Road Warrior” came into this contest with victories over Roy Jones Jr, Antonio Tarver, Eric Harding and Clinton Woods. Johnson also earned a victory over Allan Green – Sebastien Demers’ opponent on the card – in the Showtime Super Six Tournament. In his sixty-nine fight career, Johnson has been stopped just once, by future hall of famer, Bernard Hopkins in 1997. Bute knew this would be a tough defence. No stranger to success himself, Bute holds notable victories on Edison Miranda, Librado Andrade, William Joppy and Alejandro Berrio. Most recently, Bute needed less than four rounds to stop undefeated contender Jean Paul Mendy (29-0-1) in Romania. Read More
