By Scott Gilfoid: #13 WBA fringe contender Frank Buglioni (17-1-1, 13 KOs) will be challenging WBA “regular” suoer middleweight champion Fedor Chudinov (13-0, 10 KOs) on September 26th at the Wembley Arena in London, UK. This is the rescheduled fight after Chudinov suffered a broken nose during training.
Buglioni, who is very confident despite only possessing average skills, recently defeated little known 2nd tier fighter Fernando Castaneda by a 5th round knockout last Friday at the Wembley Arena. It was a mismatch straight up, yet Buglioni still didn’t look good in the fight.
Buglioni looked mechanical, upright, slow and not particularly powerful. To me, Buglioni looked like a bottom fringe contender bordering on being 2nd tier. There was no improvement in Buglioni’s game from his 10 round draw against Lee Markham and his 6th round knockout loss to Sergey Khomitsky last year in April. But then again it’s not reasonable to assume that a fighter at 26 like Buglioni is going to be able to improve any. He is what he is at this point in his career, and he’s not going to be able to rise above his lot in my view. Buglioni doesn’t look young for someone who is 26, so it’s reasonable to assume he’s as good now as he’ll ever be.
“I’m coming for Chudinov and his world title now,” Buglioni said via fightnews.com. “I got rid of Castaneda with a good performance after the disappointment of the Chudinov world title fight falling through and I took out all my anger on him on the night to line up Chudinov next.”
Chudninov needs to make quick work of Buglioni on September 26th so that he can get a much more interesting fight against German knockout artist Vincent Feigenbutz. That’s the interesting fight. Feigenbutz is seen by some as the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez of the super middleweight division. He’s very raw but with huge punching power, and he’s going to make it really difficult for Chudinov to handle his big power shots when the two of them get inside the ring.
As for Buglioni, I see him taking a vicious beating at the hands of Chudinov on September 26th. I just hope Buglioni’s trainer throws in the towel at some point to safe him from taking too much unnecessary. I’d hate to see Buglioni take a royal pounding like he did in his loss to Khomitsky. That wasn’t even sporting to watch. Khomitsky just pounded Buglioni and made him look like a punching bag with arms.
“He’s a very good fighter but if he doesn’t come at his absolute best then he will get knocked out,” Buglioni said.
Buglioni is someone that really doesn’t have anything that jumps out at you when you see him fight. Normally the top 15 contenders have at least one redeeming quality that makes them talented enough to be ranked in the top of their respective divisions. But in the case of Buglioni, he’s got nothing that tells you that he belongs ranked in the top 15. I mean, I just see Buglioni as a 2nd tier fighter rather than a top 15 guy. He’s not skilled enough to compete against the top guys, and I see Chudinov punishing him badly when he gets him inside the ring.
Comments are closed.