By Dan Ambrose: 6’2″ IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (26-0, 21 KO’s) will be sporting a four inches height advantage over the 5’10” challenger Jesse Brinkley (35-5, 22 KO’s) on Friday night in their fight at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada. Indeed, Bute looks almost like one of the Klitschko brothers in facing a much smaller opponent. Brinkley is going to have a really tough time with Bute’s tremendous size advantage in this fight and it’s hard to see how he’s gong to be able to overcome his lack of size and power to compete with the bigger Bute.
Brinkley has been facing lesser opposition during his career compared to Bute. When Brinkley has faced good opposition in the past, more often than not, Brinkley ends up getting beaten. This was the case in his losses to Robin Reid, Joe Spina, Sergio Mora and Alfonso Gomez. Brinkley has done well in the past three years, winning his last nine fights but only two of the opponents – Otis Griffin and Curtis Stevens – are worth mentioning and even those guys aren’t anyone too get excited about.
It’s pretty clean that the 33-year-old Brinkley is well over his head against Bute, and will have to count on a miracle happening if he wants to escape with a victory. The Canadian crowd will be against him, and he’ll also be fighting in a place where it’s often difficult for visiting fighters to win decisions against the home fighter, which in this case is Bute. But Brinkley is so far out of his depth in this fight, that it’s going to make it incredibly easy for the judges if the fight does end up going to the scorecards.
I doubt it will unless Brinkley has a chin made of iron. Brinkley has only been stopped twice in his entire 13-year pro career, but then again he hasn’t been fighting anyone, so this is as good a time as any for Brinkley to get knocked out once again. Hopefully, Bute is matched up with someone good in his next fight because he still really hasn’t faced any quality fighters during his career.
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