By Scott Gilfoid: After arguably getting robbed of at least a draw in his last title fight against IBF 168lb champion James DeGale last November, former IBF champion Lucian Bute (32-3, 25 KOs) will be reloading for another title fight next month on April 30th against WBC super middleweight champion Badou Jack (20-1-1, 12 KOs) at a still to be determined venue.
Bute fought well enough to deserve at least a draw in his last fight against DeGale in Montreal, Canada. I had the fight scored a draw, as Bute really took charge of the out in the second half of the contest and appeared to win 4 out of the last 6 rounds.
I had Bute winning 2 of the first 6 rounds. That should have been enough for Bute to get a draw out of the fight, but with the scoring that was done in that fight, Bute ended up losing by the lopsided scores of 117-111, 117-111 and 116-112.