Carl Froch and Lucian Bute should be lauded because they're doing what many of their peers won't agree to do: take a risky fight under somewhat disadvantageous circumstances where a loss could prove costly.

They'll fight for Bute's International Boxing Federation super middleweight championship Saturday in Froch's hometown of Nottingham, England, in a bout that will be broadcast on Epix and streamed on EpixHD.com, beginning at 6 p.m. ET.

Bute is not only putting his title and unbeaten record on the line, he's agreed to leave his adopted home of Quebec to fight on the road.

There was little reason for Bute to do so – he was drawing overflow crowds whenever he fought in Quebec and was being paid handsomely to do it – but Bute wanted to seek out the best, and when a unification fight with Andre Ward couldn't be made, he turned to Froch.

Froch had fought a grueling series of bouts against elite competition, all while away from home. After losing the Super Six title to Ward in December, Froch decided that he wanted to fight his next bout in Nottingham.

It was hard to blame him. But it also would have been easy to understand Bute's insistence on remaining in Canada, where pretty much any other super middleweight in the world was willing to go because of the lucrative gates.

Bute, though, didn't allow it to devolve into the kind of situation that has prevented a bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao from being made.

"We made him an offer to come to Montreal," Bute said of Froch. "He turned it down. And maybe he was right, saying that he was away from home for a while [and] he wanted to fight at home. So we just told his promoter to make us an offer. We're going to go defend the belt in your place and we'll prove everybody wrong [who says] I'm only fighting in Montreal. So, I asked to go out to prove myself."

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The result will be an intriguing fight between two of the best boxers in the world.

It's an example of what boxing should be about. When Bute won the belt, it wasn't the IBF Canadian title, it was the IBF world title. And, as Muhammad Ali used to say, that means defending it around the world.

Hall of Fame boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, who will serve as an analyst on the Epix broadcast, said fighting for one of the few times outside Canada won't come without risk for Bute.

"It could be a culture shock," Leonard said. "It could be something he's not used to. But for some reason I think he will rise to the occasion."

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