By Scott Gilfoid: Newly crowned WBO middleweight champion Andy Lee (34-2, 24 KOs) is feeling pretty good about himself right now after his 6th round knockout victory this month against previously unbeaten Matt Korobov on December 13th.

Lee, 30, was trailing in the fight going into the 6th round. However, he was able to hurt Korobov with a right hook that he never saw coming, and from there, Lee poured it on until referee Kenny Bayless stopped the fight with Korobov still on his feet. The knockout victory gave Lee the WBO 160 pound title, which was vacant at the time.

Lee now feels pretty happy about his knockout win. It was Lee’s second straight knockout victory in which he was trailing in the fight at the time of the stoppage. In Lee’s previous fight, he stopped the hard hitting John Jackson in the 5th round after catching him with a hard right hook to the head in their fight last June.

Lee will likely now face #2 WBO Billy Joe Saunders (21-0, 11 KOs) in his first title defense in early 2015.

“Whoever it is, I don’t mind. Let them come and let them try and win. After my last two fights whoever is coming to fight me is going to have two thoughts about it, because they don’t want to get hit with that right hand,” Lee said to rte.ie.

Lee is a little too one-dimensional if you ask me. Yeah, he scored knockouts in his last two fights, but he’s obviously become too Over-reliant on his right hook. That might work against Saunders or it might not, because we’re not talking about a great fighter here. But if Lee comes into a fight against someone good like David Lemieux, Jermall Charlo, Gennady Golovkin, Miguel Cotto, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez with just a right hook, he’s going to get blasted out in lightning fashion against those guys.

Lee is going to need to come up with some other tools for him to be able to compete against the better fighters.

I see Lee as someone who will hold onto the WBO title for very little time. This is his 15 minutes of fame, and I don’t expect him to be a belt holder for any length of time. I’d be surprised if he gets past Saunders, because this guy is going to be training to take away Lee’s right hook, because he knows this is his only real weapon he has.