Carl Froch vs. Lucian Bute

Carl Froch vs. Lucian Bute, billed as No Easy Way Out, a professional boxing match contested on 26 May 2012 for the IBF Super Middleweight title at the Capital FM Arena in Nottingham, United Kingdom.[1]

No Easy Way Out
Date26 May 2012
VenueCapital FM Arena, Nottingham, England
Title(s) on the lineIBF Super Middleweight Championship
Tale of the tape
Boxer Lucian Bute Carl Froch
Nickname Le Tombeur
Mister KO		 The Cobra
Hometown Pechea, Romania Nottingham, England
Pre-fight record 30-0-0 (24 KO) 28-2 (20 KO)
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight 167 lb (76 kg) 167 lb (76 kg)
Recognition IBF
Super Middleweight Champion		 IBF
No. 1 Ranked Super Middleweight
Result
Froch beats Bute by KO in 5th round

The card was a co-production of Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing and Jean Bedard's Interbox promotions and televised via Epix and Sky Sports.[2][3] Showtime was not interested in this fight. Bute had one fight left on his Showtime deal. Rumours said that Showtime wanted to put on a fight between Lucian Bute and Bernard Hopkins or Andre Ward instead of Froch.[4]

Background

Froch

Carl Froch was involved in Showtime's Super Six World Boxing Classic tournament. He ended up reaching the final, losing to Andre Ward. Then, IBF officially enforced Carl Froch as Lucian Bute's number one mandatory.[5]

Bute

Lucian Bute's 3-fight Showtime deal was supposed to culminate in a showdown against the Super 6, but Andre Ward was injured in the final. The American also criticised Bute's record, saying he would need to beat some top opponents to earn the right to face him

Bute agreed then to take a break from his contract with the Showtime channel and to accept what may end up being less than half his usual purse in order to travel to England to face Carl Froch, a two-time WBC champion with established credibility.

"In recent years, I've been criticized for only fighting at home but we never got offers to go elsewhere and I had to keep boxing," Bute said. "I decided that this time, I'll make my 10th defence in Nottingham."[6]

The Fight

Despite being the overwhelming underdog with bookmakers, critics and fans around the world, Froch dominated the fight to win the IBF Super-Middleweight championship of the world by TKO in round 5 to become a three-time world champion.[7][8][9]

Fight card
  • Super Middleweight Championship Carl Froch vs. Lucian Bute (c)
    • Froch defeats Bute via KO in 5th round.
  • Super-Bantamweight Championship Carl Frampton vs. Raúl Hirales, Jr.
    • Frampton defeats Hirales via unanimous decision.
  • Light Middleweight bout Erick Ochieng vs. A.A Lowe
    • Ochieng defeats Lowe via unanimous decision.
  • Light Welterweight bout Mark Loyd vs. Pier-Olivier Côté
    • Côté defeats Loyd via KO in 5th round.
  • Middleweight bout John Ryder vs. Luke Robinson
    • Ryder defeats Robinson via decision.
  • Middleweight bout Ryan Aston vs. Paul Samuels
    • Aston defeats Samuels via 5th round.
  • Welterweight bout Adnan Amar vs. Terry Carruthers
    • Carruthers defeats Amar via decision.
  • Lightweight bout Scott Cardle vs. Ideh Ockuko
    • Cardle defeats Ockuko via decision.
  • Featherweight bout Leigh Wood vs. Delroy Spencer
    • Lightweight bout Kieran Farrell vs. Jason Nesbitt
      • Farrell defeats Nesbitt via decision.

    International broadcasting
    Country Broadcaster
    Argentina Combate Space
    Australia Main Event
    Canada Canal Indigo
    Chile Combate Space
    Colombia Combate Space
    Costa Rica Combate Space
    Czech Republic Sport 1
    Denmark TV 2 Sport
    Ecuador Combate Space
    Estonia Viasat Sport Baltic
    Guyana Combate Space
    Hungary Sport 1
    Latvia Viasat Sport Baltic
    Lithuania Viasat Sport Baltic
    Mexico Combate Space
    Norway Viasat Sport
    Panama Combate Space
    Paraguay Combate Space
    Peru Combate Space
    Philippines AKTV
    Poland Canal+ Sport
    Romania The Money Channel
    Slovakia Sport 1
    South Africa SuperSport
    Sweden TV10
    United Kingdom Sky Sports
    United States Epix
    Uruguay Combate Space
    Venezuela Combate Space

    References
    1. ESPN. ESPN.go.com. Retrieved on 2012-03-02
    2. Boxing Scene. BoxingScene.com. Retrieved on 2012-04-02
    3. Sky Sports. SkySports.com. Retrieved on 2012-04-19
    4. Boxing News 24. BoxingNews24.com. Retrieved on 2012-01-16
    5. "IBF make Carl Froch the number one mandatory to Bute". LiveFight. 9 February 2012. Archived from the original on 17 January 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
    6. Sports Net Archived 12 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. SportsNet.ca. Retrieved on 2012-03-21
    7. "Carl Froch hits back at critics".
    8. "Underdog Froch demolishes Bute".
    9. "Froch unhapy about bookmakers having him as the underdog against Bute". Archived from the original on 31 May 2012.
    Preceded by
    vs. Andre Ward    		 Carl Froch's bouts
    26 May 2012    		 Succeeded by
    vs. Yusef Mack
    Preceded by
    vs. Glen Johnson    		 Lucian Bute's bouts
    26 May 2012    		 Succeeded by
    vs. Denis Grachev
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