MONTREAL -- Undefeated Lucian Bute won the IBF
super-middleweight title Friday night, stopping Colombia's
Alejandro Berrio in the 11th round at the Bell Centre.
Bute (21-0), the 27-year-old Romanian-born fighter who moved to
Montreal in 2003, backed Berrio into a corner, rocked him with an
uppercut and then battered him until referee Marlon Wright stepped
in to stop it.
The 31-year-old Berrio was making his first title defense since
taking the vacant 168-pound belt in March when he stopped Germany's
Robert Stieglitz. Bute became the mandatory challenger in June with
a unanimous decision over Australia's Sakio Bika.