Lucian Bute

HBO's unofficial scorecard had Bute up 30-27 after the 3rd round.

In round 4, Bute slipped an overhand right from Andrade and landed a heavy left hand to the jaw sending him heavily to the canvas.

Andrade beat the count but was soon caught by a left hook to the body that sent him down for the count at 2:57 of round 4.

Lucian Bute (born February 28, 1980) is a Romanian-Canadian former professional boxer who competed from 2003 to 2017.

Lucian Bute was born on February 28, 1980, in Pechea, Galați County, Romania.

After fighting for the Romanian national team as an amateur, winning multiple titles in both his homeland and abroad, Bute relocated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

As an amateur, Bute won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Houston, Texas, and the gold medal at the 2001 Francophone Games.

Bute also represented Romania at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok, Thailand as a middleweight, where he was defeated and eliminated from the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championship by the current middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin with a superb knockout at round 4.

Before KO Golovkin, who won 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championship, was outpointing Bute with 13 points.

Bute claimed an amateur record of 235–15.

Lucian Bute turned pro in 2003.

He held the IBF super-middleweight title from 2007 to 2012, successfully making nine consecutive defenses and reaching a peak ranking of number one in the division by The Ring magazine.

On June 15, 2007, Bute faced super middleweight contender and former Olympian Sakio Bika at the Bell Centre in Montreal in an elimination bout for the IBF title.

Bute beat Bika by unanimous decision (116-111, 118-109, 118-109) and, as a result, he got his shot at the IBF Super Middleweight Champion Alejandro Berrio on October 19, 2007.

On October 24, 2008, Bute defeated Mexico's Librado Andrade by unanimous decision but the end of the fight was marred with controversy.

Andrade became Bute's mandatory challenger by defeating Robert Stieglitz.

Bute defeated three-time world title challenger Fulgencio Zúñiga on March 13, 2009.

In round four, Bute knocked Zúñiga down with a left uppercut to the body.

Zúñiga got up, but Bute continued the assault, eventually leading to a stoppage by the referee.

On November 29, 2009, Lucian Bute fought Andrade in a rematch and won with a fourth-round KO at Colisee Pepsi in Quebec City, Canada.

Bute retained his IBF Super Middleweight title.

The first three rounds saw Andrade as the aggressor and Bute played the role of counter-puncher, as had been the case in the first fight.

On April 17, 2010, Bute stopped Edison Miranda at 1:22 of the third round to retain his IBF Super Middleweight title in Montreal in front of nearly 15,000 fans.

Miranda lost the first two rounds and he was knocked out during the third round with a left uppercut to the jaw.

Miranda got back on his feet but the referee decided to stop the fight seconds after, so the result was a technical knockout.

On October 15, at the Bell Centre in Montréal, IBF Super Middleweight Champion Lucian Bute scored an impressive ninth round KO over mandatory challenger Jesse Brinkley.

It was mostly a tactical fight until Bute dropped Brinkley with a left uppercut to the body in round five.

Brinkley barely beat the count.

Bute floored Brinkley for the second time in round eight and knocked him out with an uppercut in round nine.

It was Bute's sixth title defense.

Bute beat Berrio via TKO in the 11th round.

With this victory, Bute became the third professional boxing world champion of Romania in its short history after the fall of communism after Leonard Doroftei and Mihai Leu and also the third champion in InterBox's history after Eric Lucas and Dorin.

He also holds Canadian citizenship as of 2012.

He is the cousin of handball player Steluța Luca.

She was also born in Pechea, Galați County.

While Bute dominated his opponent through most of the fight, he nearly lost the title when he was knocked down by Andrade with two seconds left in the 12th and final round.

When the referee, Marlon B. Wright, reached the eight count, the bell sounding the end of the match rang.

However, the referee stopped the count temporarily when he signaled Andrade to return to his corner.

On September 11, 2014, Bute announced that he would be trained by Fredie Roach.

He was previously trained by Stéphan Larouche, who also trained former world champions Éric Lucas and Leonard Doroftei.