Lucian Bute was inducted into the Panthéon des sports du Québec on Wednesday evening, and the least we can say is that he deserved to be there.
“It’s a beautiful moment since to get there, you have to mark Quebec boxing and you do not mark it by only becoming world champion,” said his former trainer Stéphane Larouche in an interview with JiC.
“You mark it by your presence, by the message you leave, by your personality, by a lot of things, your identity … it’s fun for us, for boxing and it’s also a great accomplishment for Lucian Bute, what he will leave as a legacy to boxing. “
This is the second Larouche colt to be inducted into the Panthéon des sports du Québec, after Éric Lucas. And the two boxers know each other very well …
“In 2003, Bute was Lucas’ training partner,” said Larouche. And he had told me that there was no one who had given him so much trouble in training in his life. He told me that Lucian was exceptional and that we had to hire him as soon as possible. ”
See the full interview in the video above.