Chudinov batters Buglioni

By Boxing News - 09/26/2015 - Comments

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By Jim Dower: Undefeated WBA “regular” super middleweight champion Fedor Chudinov (14-0, 10 KOs) stayed unbeaten with a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision over Frank Buglioni (17-2-1, 13 KOs) on Saturday night at the Wembley Arena, in London, UK. The final judges’ scores were 120-106, 118-108 and 117-109.

Buglioni hurt Chudinov with a flurry of head shots in the last 15 seconds of the 6th round. However, Buglioni then got a little carried away by nailing Chudinov with a right hand after the bell that knocked him down. The foul led to Buglioni being docked two points by the referee Terry O’Connor.

Chudinov had Buglioni hurt in the last three rounds of the fight. Buglioni was ready to be knocked out. Chudinov was badly hurting Buglioni body shots. Chudinov’s trainer Roy Jones Jr. told him to keep throwing body shots in the last three rounds, but he failed to follow his instructions to the letter. Buglioni was ready to be knocked out in the last three rounds, but Chudinov wasted too much time head hunting and not going to the body, which is where he was really hurting Buglioni.

In the 9th round, Chudinov hurt Buglioni with a right to the body. Buglioni then backed off and attempted to scurry away. But Chudinov was able to continue to batter Buglioni for the remainder of the round. Interestingly enough, Chudinov didn’t bother going back to Buglioni’s body in the 10th round despite having hurt him with body shots in the 9th.

Buglioni did a lot of moving throughout the fight, and that seemed to take the energy out of him. By the third, Buglioni looked like he was tiring from his constant movement. He fought a lot better when he stood his ground in the center of the ring and let his hands go. Buglioni clearly bothered Chudinov with his flurries, fast hands and power.

Chudinov did a good job all night long in blocking Buglioni’s big punches. The only time that Chudinov struggled was when Buglioni threw a flurry of shots at the end of the 6th, 8th and 10th rounds. Chudinov was bothered by those flurries, as he couldn’t block all the incoming from Buglioni.

“He has a good punch,” Chudinov said after the fight. “I learned from my brother’s loss [to Chris Eubank Jr]. I think my next fight will be Felix Sturm. He wants to fight me. I think he [Buglioni] grew with me. I think the next fight will be harder.”

“It’s back to the drawing board,” Buglioni said. “Again, he beat me on the night.”

Chudinov needs to think about moving down to 160, because he does not have the size to be fighting at super middleweight. The 5’9″ Chudinov looked considerably smaller than the 6’1″ Buglioni. Chudinov looks even smaller than the IBO/WBA middleweight champion 5’10” Gennady Golovkin. Chudinov would be much better off fighting in the middleweight division so that he doesn’t have to be facing big super middleweights like James DeGale, George Groves and Badou Jack in the future.

Chudinov would do well to move down to 160 to try and avenge his brother Dmitry Chudinov’s defeat at the hands of Chris Eubank Jr. Fedor is a bigger puncher than Dmitry and a lot more relentless. It would be a tough fight for Eubank Jr., and he’d have to come up with some different ideas in trying to win rather than standing and throwing.

As for Buglioni, it’s another loss on his resume but to a higher quality fighter than the one he lost to last year in Sergey Khomitsky. Buglioni needs to improve his game if he wants to get another world title shot. He looked really tired early in the fight, and he was fortunate that he wasn’t fighting an arguably better quality fighter like DeGale or Badou Jack. Both of those fighters likely would have knocked Buglioni out tonight with their body punching. That’s an area where Buglioni seems very vulnerable. Badou is a very good body puncher and he would have focused on throwing to the body all night long rather than wasting time head hunting the way that Chudinov was.

Trainer Roy Jones Jr. needs to get Chudinov to follow his directions, because he wasn’t doing that tonight. The Russian translator was giving Jones’ instructions to Chudinov for him to throw to the body in the last three rounds, but Chudinov wasn’t following his instructions at all. Chudinov was the one that wanted to be trained by Jones. But what good is it to be trained by him if Chudinov isn’t going to be following his instructions. Jones knew what he was seeing in the fight, and he told Chudinov over and over again to go to the body but he just wouldn’t do it.

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A flabby looking 261 pound former heavyweight world title challenger Dereck Chisora (22-5, 14 KOs) won a dull 10 round decision over 34-year-old Brazilian journeyman Luiz Nascimento (18-111, 16 KOs). The referee scored the fight 99-91 for Chisora.

Chisora dominated most of the fight with his looping power shots and his high pressure offense. Chisora appeared to stun Nascimento with a big left hook to the head in the 3rd round. Nascimento’s right eye began to swell up from Chisora’s shots by the 4th round.

In rounds 7 and 8, Nascimento looked exhausted and ready to be knocked out, but Chisora was unable to land enough of his power shots to get him out of there.

Overall, Chisora looked decent in the fight. If he had come into the fight in the low 240s, he would have gotten Nascimento out of there early. Chisora was carrying around 20 pounds of excess fat that slowed him down tonight.

It does look kind of bad for Chisora that Nascimento has previously been knocked out in 2 rounds by Dillian Whyte, 4 rounds by Carlos Takam, and 7 rounds by Joseph Parker. The difference between those guys and Chisora is that they were able to throw straight shots that Nascimento wasn’t able to stop. Chisora was throwing wide hooks all night long and Nascimento had little problems stopping them.

Other boxing results on the card:

Ryan Walsh W12 Samir Mouneimne
Romeo Romaeo pts 8 Chris Adaway
Jamie Kavanagh pts 6 Reynaldo Mora



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