MONTREAL (AP)—Undefeated Lucian Bute stopped Edison Miranda 1:22 into the third round to retain the IBF super-middleweight title Saturday night at Bell Centre.
Early in the third, Miranda mocked Bute and dared the Montreal fighter to give his best shot to the body. Bute then had the Colombian scrambling with a flurry of punches, stopped for a second to grin at his opponent, then finished him off with a combination.
Miranda got up, but was still wobbly and the fight was stopped.
Bute, a Romanian who moved to Montreal in 2003, improved to 26-0 with his 21st knockout. Miranda dropped to 33-5.
Congratulations to Butte for another KO win. By the way, can we get him to fight outside Canada ? He needs to mix it up in the USA too. Same goes for Felix Sturm. Both great champions in ther own right.
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