SHOBOX
on Showtime Results
Lucian Bute vs.
Librado Andrade
October 24, 2008
Centre Bell
Montreal, Canada
Jr. Middleweight
Bout (10 Rds)
Ronald Hearns (21-0, 17
KOs) wins by TKO at 2:37 of the 6th round over Paul Clavette
(14-2-1, 2 KOs)
In the sixth round, Clavette
downed from an accumulation of punches (up at the count of 8) - the fight
resumed and Clavette was given
another standing eight count after falling back into the ropes after being
hit
by a barrage of punches (ropes
held him up) - the fight resumed and after chasing Clavette around for a
bit,
Hearns got him against the
ropes, unleashed numerous unanswered punches and the ref stepped in and
stopped the bout.
IBF Super Middleweight Title
Bout (12 Rds)
Lucian Bute (23-0, 18
KOs) wins a unanimous decision over Librado Andrade (27-2, 21 KOs)
In the 10th round, Bute threw
a left and the fighters legs tangled and Andrade went down but the ref
counted
it as a knock down. With less
than five seconds left in the 12th round - controversy - Bute went down
from a
hard right - the ref picked up
the count a bit late and Bute got up (around the count of five by the
ref's count
but it should have been around
seven or eight) - Bute was out on his feet (barely able to stand with the
help
of the ropes) - the ref
stopped the count at six to tell Andrade to get back into the neutral
corner (this took at
least five seconds roughly) -
Bute got the extra time to recover and when the ref picked up the count
again,
he picked it up from six. The
ref checked Bute and was going to let him continue and the bell sounded to
end the round so Bute beat the
count (The bell could not save the fighter) - it went to the score cards -
Judges scored the bout
115-110, 117-109, 115-111 for Bute - Bute retains his title. The
controversy was the
long count and whether Bute
would have beaten the 10 count without the ref stopping the count to
address
Andrade (how the ref would
have judged Bute without stopping the count). In the post fight Showtime
interview, the ref admitted
Andrade would have won by knockout if he had not come out of the neutral
corner
that caused him to stop the
count (which Andrade argued he didn't do).
(10/24/08)
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