By Chris Iorfida, CBC Sports
Lucian Bute retained his International Boxing Federation super middleweight title at Bell Centre in Montreal on Saturday night with a third-round stoppage of challenger Edison Miranda.
Bute floored the Colombian with a left uppercut to prompt the stoppage and improve to 26-0, with 21 knockouts.
Miranda (33-5, 29 KOs) had moments of success in the first two rounds but walked into the fateful punch, falling face first to the canvas.
Miranda beat the count but stumbled backward into the ropes, prompting referee Michael Griffin to stop the bout. Miranda did not protest the stoppage.
The Romanian-born Bute made the fifth defence of the 168-pound title he won in late 2007.
Bute could be in line for bigger paydays against the likes of Kelly Pavlik or Bernard Hopkins.
Pavlik of Youngstown, Ohio puts his 160-pound middleweight belt on the line later Saturday in nearby Atlantic City, N.J., against Sergio Martinez of Argentina.
Source: cbc.ca
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