On November 28, 2009, Lucian Bute (24-0, 19 KOs), the super-middleweight IBF champion, defends his title against Mexican challenger, Librado Andrade (28-2, 21 KOs).
Lucian Bute is coming in to the fight on a 24-fight win streak with a 79% KO rate; his last fight was a 4th round TKO victory over Fulgencio Zúñiga, 8 months and 15 days ago. Librado Andrade is on a 1-fight win streak with a 70% KO rate, with his last fight being a unanimous decision win over Vitali Tsypko, 7 months and 24 days ago.
This should be a confident win for Lucian Bute at 99-1 winning odds. Librado Andrade really doesn't have much to present against Bute.
In the rematch, Lucian Bute stopped Librado Andrade via KO in the 4th round of the 12-round world-title fight, and successfully defended his IBF super-middleweight title. Bute improves his record to 25-0 (20 KOs), while Andrade adds a loss to his record at 28-3.