Badou Jack holds onto his 168-pound title with a disputed draw against Lucian Bute
Who wins the battle of fragile psyches between Badou Jack and left-handed former titleholder Lucian Bute?
Badou Jack and Lucian Bute back on the winning track, ready to rumble in 168-pound title tilt
Badou Jack and Lucian Bute share an unpleasant commonality entering Saturday’s 168-pound championship clash: Each man is four fights removed from a devastating, almost career-derailing knockout loss.
Former 168-pound champion Lucian Bute ready to regain his throne with win over Badou Jack
Lucian Bute dictated a toe-to-toe clash with switch-hitting, 168-pound rival James DeGale in November, often pursuing the Englishman to the ropes and pounding away at his head and body.
Badou Jack preparing for ‘the toughest fight of my life’ against ex-champ Lucian Bute
A bleary-eyed Badou Jack showed up for a recent workout at promoter Floyd Mayweather’s Las Vegas-based boxing gym claiming to have gotten no more than two hours of sleep in the previous 24.
Lucian Bute pounds out a TKO victory in concussive comeback fight
How do you make up for a wasted year—and then some? By wasting the other dude in the ring with the kind of sweat-spraying left hands that make eyes black and opponents blue.
Lucian Bute has his bounce back heading into clash with Andrea Di Luisa
Lucian Bute had never experienced anything like it before in the ring.
Lucian Bute sings ‘O Canada’ for his Greatest Hits
His nickname is “Le Tombeur,” which in French means “The Heartthrob.” There are worse nicknames to be saddled with. Right, Chuck “The Bayonne Bleeder” Wepner? For Lucian Bute, the native Romanian who now makes his home in Montreal, it’s three fights in Canada that set his heart aflutter for his Greatest Hits.
Lucian Bute shaking things up with former foil as new trainer
Former 168-pound champion Lucian Bute and his new trainer, Howard Grant, have an adversarial history.