Ruutu vs Lucic

Easy, dominating win for Lucic. Ruutu only wanted to fight him because of his nose.

Ruutu tried to hold him off and tire him out, but must not have realized that Lucic is a conditioning freak.

Lucic wins this one, but the Boston TV guys are tools. People also complain about Ruutu as a dirty play who will not fighting heavy weights. Ruutu really is a middle weight, but he fought a heavy here and did ok in a loss. You can see how strong Ruutu is he was able to tie up a bigger guy and put himself in a position to win a fight. There have been heavies that have fought Lucic and not done as well as Ruutu did in this one.

Epic.

ruutu is lucky he did not get knocked out !

Lucic looked great in that one. Jarkko is a tough cookie, and smart- but Lucic landed the only real punches. Easy decision.

Awesome win by Lucic, what a fight. Ruutu picked on Lucic when Lucic was at the end of his shift and he still got his ass handed to him by Lucic. Lucic landed some bombs on Ruutu's face. Ruutu couldn't do **** until the end with a few lefts.

lucic with the win but what a ***** he is fighting a weaker guy when laraque challenged him all night

great bout. love the body shots by lucic, a real fighter there. kid is all heart. so is ruutu. they wore themselves out good. lucic has to protect his beak, which he did, but at the same time needs to deliver heavy shots, which he did. ruutu wanted out after 30 seconds. not to take anything away from ruutu, he's a character guy and will hang in there and take his shots. GREAT fight.

HOWEVER, somebody please jaw-jack that horrid announcer. worse than a high school announcer on cable access.

Win Lucic.

Lucic controlled this fight. Ruutu was just trying to hold Lucic the whole time to avoid getting tagged.

nothing special gave to the Kid

Let's get something straight, Lucic was not picking on a middleweight. True, he didn't want to fight BGL, but he clearly didn't want to fight Ruutu either. Rutuu obviously brought that on himself and I'm glad; nothing pleases me more than seeing his head snap back from a solid shot.

I like the way Ruutu scraps. He's patient and picks his spots. Lucic did more throwing and landed a number of shots. The body punches are hilarious. I could have sworn I heard Mickey yelling "the body, the body, the body". At the end of the scrap Ruutu landed a couple that were definitely going to turn the tide but in today's NHL, the ref's aren't going to let it get that far. I think if they had stood back, you would have seen Ruutu clean up. When it ended though, I'd have to give Lucic the nod.

Win - Lucic

jjhawksjj - I agree 100%. Body shots? Was he expecting Ruutu to tire in the eighth round? Hitting a professional hockey player with body shots isn't going to mean anything, unless he's going to be there when the guy gets out of bed the next morning. That announcer, with his Joe Fraiser analogy, is laughable. I don't take anything away from Lucic, he's a tough kid. But Ruutu hurt him at the end. All in all, a good tactical fight. Props to Ruutu; all of the people who say he won't drop the gloves should be ashamed.

Lucic clearly the winner, looked very tired near the end. Ruutu should join the Finnish grappling team, he sure tied up Lucic