Bute has surgery, will receive cast next week
Former super middleweight titleholder Lucian Bute had “several bone fragments” removed from his injured left hand during surgery on Thursday, according to his promoter, InterBox.
read moreBute’s injury forces cancellation of May 25 Montreal card
The hand injury that forced Lucian Bute to postpone his May 25 showdown with Jean Pascal has also resulted in the entire Montreal card to be cancelled. It is not known if the Canadian broadcast of Kessler-Froch II will air without Bute-Pascal.
read moreBute’s hand injury forces Pascal bout to be postponed
Former IBF super middleweight titleholder Lucian Bute suffered an injury to his left hand that will force the postponement of his May 25 clash with fellow Canadian and former light heavyweight champ Jean Pascal.
read moreLem’s latest: Angry Angel says Judah gets KO’d in five
Angel Garcia, the father and trainer of Danny Garcia, called Zab Judah “a sissy” who is going to get his “ass whupped” for spoiling his son’s promotional signing event at a Brooklyn sports outlet on Tuesday.
read moreHBO to air Froch-Kessler twice on May 25
HBO will air a Memorial Day weekend double-header on May 25, starting with live coverage of the super middleweight rematch between Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler.
read moreLem’s latest: Hopkins to defend against Murat
IBF beltholder Bernard Hopkins could make the first defense of his belt against Karo Murat.
read moreLem’s latest: Trout joins charitable venture in advance of Alvarez
Austin Trout: “Team Fight to Walk is very important to me. The statistics about number of everyday people and US troops impacted by Spinal Cord Injuries are scary.”
read moreRichardson: Hopkins ‘smells blood’ versus Cloud
Trainer Naazim Richardson on Bernard Hopkins: “I told him we’ve got to bring the Executioner back for this one. I’ve started to see that mindset again.”
read moreLem’s latest: Sanchez says Cloud-Hopkins is Norris-Leonard
Tavoris Cloud’s trainer, Abel Sanchez — who trained Terry Norris to brutally defeat Sugar Ray Leonard — says his fighter is “about to retire another legend on Saturday night” when Cloud faces 48-year-old Bernard Hopkins.
read moreCloud calls Hopkins’ shades, mask, hoodie ‘childish’
Tavoris Cloud on Bernard Hopkins’ outfit at Wednesday’s press conference: “It was funny to just turn around and to just see a grown man with a ski mask on standing there and not saying nothing to nobody.”
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