Fedor Chudinov vs. Frank Buglioni next Saturday, September 26th

By Boxing News - 09/19/2015 - Comments

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By Scott Gilfoid: Next Saturday night on September 26th, WBA “regular” super middleweight champion Fedor Chudinov (13-0, 10 KOs) will be defending his WBA title against what appears to be a badly over-matched #4 WBA Frank “Wise Guy” Buglioni (17-1-1, 13 KOs) at the Wembley Arena in London, UK. Buglioni, 26, has been talking a good game in the lead up to this fight, and appears to really think he’s got a chance of winning it against the 28-year-old Russian born Chudinov.

Unfortunately for Buglioni, his game isn’t nearly as good as his ability to self-promote himself. He’s a great talker, but he just doesn’t seem to have the talent to be a world champion from what I can see.

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“They’re going to come in fully prepared and that’s what they need to be,” Buglioni said to BoxNation about Chudinov. “I’m going to get in there and do the job. My training will speak for itself on the night. I’m totally focused on becoming a world champion and submitting my name in boxing history,” Buglioni added.

Oh brother, I think Buglioni is going a little overboard where he starts talking about making history on September 26th. I mean, I can understand him getting excited about trying to win a world title, but I don’t the making history part. Even if Buglioni does win the fight, which I don’t see happening, I don’t see it as a big deal in terms of him making boxing history.

If this was something that had never been accomplished before or if he were facing a real talent like WBA Super World super middleweight champion Andre Ward and beating him, then I could understand Buglioni flapping his gums about making history in this fight. Other than that, he would only be beating a paper champion in Chudinov.

The real champion for the World Boxing Association is Ward. The WBA is an outfit that has two champions for each weight class plus an interim champion at times. With all the possibilities there are to win a world title with the WBA, it lets lesser fighters become belt holders.

Buglioni will need a miracle for him to beat a talented fighter like Chudinov in this fight, and I don’t there’s going to be a fairy that will be handing out miracles on 9/26 at the Wembley Arena.

Tickets for the Chudinov vs. Buglioni fight can be purchased at www.frankwarren.com, SSE Arena, Wembley on 0844 815 0815 and www.axs.com and Eventim on 0844 249 1000 and www.eventim.co.uk. The tickets are priced at £40, £50, £75, £100 and £150.

With a recent draw against Lee Markham in May, and a knockout loss to Sergey Khomitsky last April, Buglioni hardly rates a world title shot unless losing and getting a draw are qualifications to fight for a world title. I can understand how some fighters back their way into a title shot by losing their last fights, but I can’t understand how a fighter is given a world title shot when they have both a loss and a recent draw.

Chudinov and his promoter Vlad Hrunov must be feeling charitable for giving Buglioni a title shot that he’s hardly earned inside the ring on merits. I could think of a number of top contenders that I feel deserve a title shot a lot more than Buglioni. I think these fighters rate a title shot against Chudinov more than Buglioni: Julius Jackson, Lucian Bute, Rogelio Medina, Hadillah Mohoumadi, Rocky Fielding, Jesse Hart and Callum Smith. At least those guys are winning their fights on a consistent basis rather than getting beaten and fighting to a draw.

Chudinov won the vacant WBA World super middleweight title last May when he defeated Felix Sturm in Germany in front of a pro-Sturm crowd. Chudinov, 28, was able to outwork Sturm by throwing nonstop punches from start to finish to keep him from getting his own offense untracked. Sturm, 36, was forced to fight harder than he wanted to, and this led to him running out of gas in the second half of the fight.



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