Official Lucian Bute and Brian Magee Weights and Photos
Saturday Live at 10 p.m. ET/PT, From Bell Centre In Montreal, Canada on Showtime.
NOTE: WEIGHTS (March 18, 2011) – Unbeaten International Boxing Federation (IBF) Super Middleweight Champion Lucian Bute weighed in at 167.6 pounds and his opponent, former European titleholder Brian Magee, tipped the scales at 167.7 just one day before their SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING bout on Saturday, March 19 LIVE on SHOWTIME® at 10 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast) from Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.
Lucuan Bute Photo:Tom Casino/Showtime
Photos by: Tom Casino / SHOWTIME
The hometown favorite Bute (27-0, 22 KOs) will be making the seventh defense of his 168-pound crown against Magee (34-3-1, 24 KOs), who hails from Belfast, Ireland.
Photos by: Tom Casino / SHOWTIME
The telecast will begin with the rebroadcast of the March 12 action-packed SHOWTIME PPV® fight between World Boxing Association (WBA) Super Welterweight champion Miguel Cotto and Ricardo Mayorga.
Photos by: Tom Casino / SHOWTIME
The event is promoted by InterBox.
Brian Magee Photo: Tom Casino/SHOWTIME
Steve Albert will call the action from ringside with Al Bernstein providing color commentary and Jim Gray serving as ringside reporter. David Dinkins Jr. is the executive producer of SHOWTIME Sports with Ray Smaltz producing and Bob Dunphy directing.