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Brawl in Montreal ends in unwarranted controversy

By George Kimball
Special to ESPN.com

Saturday, October 25, 2008

MONTREAL, Quebec --- Marlon B. Wright didn't exactly cover himself with glory in his ShoBox debut, but suggestions that the Canadian referee's mishandling of Friday's Lucian Bute-Librado Andrade fight "cost Andrade the title," as many pundits were saying, are probably misplaced. Although it was plain to see that Bute had all but been knocked senseless in the final round, he retained his IBF super middleweight title primarily because somewhere in his by-then-cobwebbed brain he had the presence o ...

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