by Fox Doucette Last year, I took a slow news week to examine the fighters who, even though my job requires me to be objective and stick to covering the facts of the matter in a fight, are the ones I enjoy watching the most (see “Of Course I'm Biased, I'm a Fan”, Southpaw #11). In the piece, I lavished fawning praise on Lucian Bute, said nice things about current Olympic … [Read more...]
Lucian Bute To Face Denis Grachev Nov. 3
by Fox Doucette Former IBF super middleweight titlist Lucian Bute (30-1, 24 KOs) has announced his next fight. He will take on Russian light heavyweight Denis Grachev (12-0-1, 8 KOs) at Bell Centre in Montreal on November 3rd, at a 170-pound catchweight for the NABF light heavyweight minor title that Grachev won from Ismayl Sillakh on ESPN2 earlier this year. For Grachev, … [Read more...]
Bute to Rematch Froch in 2013
by Fox Doucette ESPN's Dan Rafael reports that Lucian Bute (30-1, 24 KOs), fresh off of getting his ass kicked by Carl Froch (29-2, 21 KOs) in five rounds back on May 26th, will exercise the rematch clause in the contract of that fight. Both men, however, intend to take interim fights, either as a tune-up or as prelude/springboard to greater things in the meantime. Bute … [Read more...]
Cornelius Bundrage and the World Non-Champions
by Fox Doucette Later this week, Cornelius Bundrage (31-4, 18 KOs) makes his second defense of the IBF junior middleweight title against Cory Spinks (39-6, 11 KOs), from whom “K-9” won the title in August of 2010. For Bundrage, this will continue a long and illustrious career of taking the path of least resistance to a world title and still making an awful hash of things along … [Read more...]
Giving Floyd Mayweather A Reach-Around: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette (WARNING: The following column contains crude, vulgar language, blatant use of dick jokes, and Manny Pacquiao. Viewer discretion is advised.) I am sick and fucking tired of you people. There are three types of people in this world who are experts at rationalizing away every bit of stupid, mindless, retarded bullshit in their empty little heads. Nazi death … [Read more...]