It’s about time I wrote about Lucian Bute! He’s been doing so great in the past three years! IBF Super Middleweight Champion, a title he won in 2007 and succeeded in keeping it in 2008, after a match with William Joppy. TKO, round 10….he just had fun! I’m so proud!

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As an amateur, Bute won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Houston, Texas and the Gold Medal at the 2001 Francophone Games.
At a height of 6′2 and an arm length of 27.5″, Bute has a professional record of 22 wins (18 KO’s), 0 losses and 0 draws. He is the IBF super middleweight champion. Bute is trained by Stéphane Larouche, who also trained former world champions Éric Lucas and Leonard Dorin.
On June 15, 2007, Bute faced super middleweight contender and former Olympian Sakio Bika at the Bell Centre in Montreal in an elimination bout for the IBF title. Bute beat Bika by unanimous decision (116-111, 118-109, 118-109). Bute got his shot at the IBF super middleweight champion Alejandro Berrio on October 19, 2007. Bute beat Berrio via TKO in the 11th round. With this victory, Bute became the third Romanian world champion, Leonard Dorin and Mihai Leu are the other two.

Thanks, wiki!
Now you might be wondering why on earth is a woman writing about boxing. Trust me, you don’t want to know! But since you (didn’t, LOL) ask, I’m a fanatic of real violent competitions. “Real” excludes wrestling and includes boxing, K1 and PRIDE. I know, I know….My favorite men with gloves: Mr. Ali, Lucian Bute, Leonard Dorin (boxing), Peter Aerts and Remy Bonjasky (K1) and Fedor Emelianenko (Pride).