By Jason Kim: According to an interview of International Boxing Federation super middleweight champion Lucian Bute’s promoter by Fightnews.com, Bute won’t be fighting WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal anytime soon. Jean Bedard, from Interbox, says that Bute (26-0, 21 KO’s) instead will wait on fighting the winner of the Super Six tournament in 2012. In the meantime, the 30-year-old Bute has a title defense coming up against little known contender Jesse Brinkley (35-5, 22 KO’s) on October 15th, at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.

And provided that Bute wins that fight, which is highly likely given Brinkley’s past defeats to Sergio Mora, Alfonzo Gomez, Joe Spina and Robin Reid, Bute will then be directed into a super middleweight unification bout against either WBA champion Dimitri Sartison (27-1, 17 KO’s) or WBO super middleweight champion Robert Stieglitz (38-2, 23 KO’). And then later on next year, Bute will then be put in with one of the four losers of the Super Six tournament, possibly Arthur Abraham or Mikkel Kessler. It sounds like a good idea.

Any one of those fights would be great for Bute. He might have problems against Pascal because of Jean’s hand speed and International Boxing Federation light heavyweight champion Tavoris Cloud might have too much power for Bute to handle. Although Bute would likely out-box Cloud for most of the fight, all it would take is one big shot from Cloud and Bute could find himself hurt and staggering around like he was in his controversial 12 round decision win over Librado Andrade in 2008.

Both Cloud and Pascal hit harder than Andrade and have better hand speed. It makes sense for Bute to be directed against guys like Stieglitz, Sartison, Kessler and Abraham instead. Those are fights that Bute can likely win, although the Kessler and Abraham fights would likely prove to be tough ones for him. Pascal needs to focus on taking on an older fighter like Bernard Hopkins and then fighting a rematch with Chad Dawson. Those are fights that Pascal would do well in and get paid well. If after Bute has taken on all of the mentioned opponent, perhaps he and Pascal can fight in 2012 if Bute hasn’t already been beaten by someone like Andre Ward or Andre Dirrell. A match between Pascal and Bute would still be a great fight even if Bute gets beaten by the Super Six tournament winner.