Carl Froch and Lucian Bute reside near opposite ends of a spectrum, where at one end is mythical, untapped and untested unobtainium and the other end is sheer stone, hardened by years of harsh nature and underestimated by those searching for rare diamonds. These two super middleweights, set to meet Saturday on Epix, possess the precise formula for exposing the other as iron pyrite: Froch, as battle-tested as anyone in boxing today, is himself capable of rendering Bute's thin resume into mere papyrus for the Bunsen burner, while Bute's special qualities could make Froch look like a substance from a previously relevant generation, an advancement in the three-age system to replace the one that came before it.And if you put away the elemental table, it's about as interesting a fight as we've had yet on the 2012 calendar.
Froch is, in my view, boxing's most criminally under-appreciated boxer. No one, and I mean no one, has had as brutal a schedule as he has over t...
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