(Photo credit: Lucas Noonan/Premier Boxing Champions) By Scott Gilfoid: #4 WBA Tomoki “El Mexicanito” Kameda (31-2, 19 KOs) is very unhappy with the scoring of his fight yesterday in losing a controversial 12 round unanimous decision to WBA World super bantamweight champion Jamie McDonnell (27-2, 12 KOs) in their rematch at the American Bank Center, in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. The three judges – Glenn Feldman, Jesse Reyes and Steve Weisfeld – gave the 29-year-old McDonnell the win by the scores of 115-112, 116-111 and 117-111.
The Premier Boxing Champions analysts saw Kameda as the winner despite the fact that he was knocked down in the 12th round, when he slipped on the canvas as he was getting hit. It was a very questionable knockdown, because Kameda clearly slipped when he was getting hit.
Kameda, 24, feels that he won the fight against McDonnell even easier than he did in their first fight in May of this year. Kameda lost that fight by the scores 114-113, 114-113 and 114-113. A lot of boxing fans felt that Kameda had done more than enough to deserve a decision in that fight as well with the way that that he was able to land nice body shots and make McDonnell miss all night long with his shots.
“I thought I won this fight a lot more clearly than the last fight. I followed our plan perfectly,” Kameda said via Fightnews.com. “I did everything right.”
You hate to see fight outcomes like this because it really taints the sport, and ruins it for the fans. Kameda and his promoters simply need to appeal the decision to the World Boxing Association so that they can order a rematch with a different set of judges working the fight.
With a different crew of judges, I think we’d see a different outcome in a rematch between the two bantamweights. However, I’m not sure if McDonnell would take a rematch with Kameda even if he’s ordered by the WBA, because he’s interested in moving up to super bantamweight to challenge WBA World 122lb champion Scott Quigg for his WBA title.
“I didn’t think it was a controversial decision, because I always felt in control and I believe that I won the fight comfortably,” McDonnell said. “My jab was the key in the fight and it was a great weapon for me. I just had to make sure that I stuck to the game plan we had been working on for over eight weeks.”
It’s not surprising that McDonnell thinks he won the fight, because what else is the guy supposed to say? It’s not as if he’ll admit that he was given a controversial victory, because that would muddy the water for himself. The last thing that McDonnell needs is to face Kameda in a third fight and wind up losing.
McDonnell was missing all night long with his shots, and taking head snapping punches to the head from Kameda over and over in each round. You’d have to be a blind man not to see all the times Kameda was hitting McDonnell with hard head punches.
Steve Collins sees desperation in Chudinov hiring Roy Jones Jr. as his trainer
Former world champion Steve Collins thinks that WBA “regular” super middleweight champion Fedor Chudinov (13-0, 10 KOs) is showing desperation in his recent hire of Roy Jones Jr. as his trainer for his title defense against #4 WBA Frank Buglioni (17-1-1, 13 KOs) on September 26th at the Wembley Arena in London, England.
The fight is seen as a mismatch in the eyes of a lot of fans with hard hitting Chudinov seen as too talented for the limited Buglioni. Who knows why Chudinov brought in Jones to help him prepare for the fight, but I don’t see Chudinov needing any trainer at all to beat a guy in the class as Buglioni.
I see this guy as a bottom 15 fringe contender type of fighter rather than someone with a top five ranking. Buglioni recently fought to a 10 round draw last May against Lee Markham. I had Buglioni losing that fight. Last year, Buglioni was stopped in the 6th round by Sergey Khomitsky in April 2014.
“Good luck to him with Chudinov, but there’s only one winner in this fight and that’s Frank,” Collins said. Chudinov must be worried if he feels he needs Jones to help him at this stage of his training programme. We believe that they must be clutching at straws to bring him in only a few weeks’ out from the fight,”
Chudinov obviously didn’t bring Jones in to help him all that much for the Buglioni match-up. I think it was more of a case of Chudinov wanting to have Jones to help him get ready for his bigger fights in the future against some of the talented super middleweight contenders.
“It put a smile on Frank’s face when he found out,” Collins said about Jones being hired by Chudinov. “For one, there’s the language barrier between them and Roy Jones’s fighting style is completely different to Chudinov’s.”
I think it’s a good hiring for Chudinov, because he clearly needs help with his defensive skills, and Jones was always one of the best defensive fighters in the sport of boxing. Adding Jones to his team is a big positive for Chudinov, and I can’t see it doing anything other than to help him become a better fighter, an definitely helping him beat the likes of Buglioni without any problems.
With the kind of punching power that Chudinov has going for him, he really doesn’t need anyone training him to beat a guy like Buglioni. All Chudinov needs to do is throw a lot of punches and make sure he gets out of the way when Buglioni falls down on the canvas. The only danger I see there being for Chudinov is the risk of him getting hurt when Buglioni starts falling on the canvas.
I wish Buglioni had actually had to work his way to a title shot by beating someone talented to get his title shot against Chudinov, because he’s basically getting the title shot due to wins over these guys: Fernando Castaneda, Ivan Jukic, Andrew Robinson, Alexey Ribchev and Sam Couzens. Those are 2nd tier fodder type opposition as far as I’m concerned. Buglioni should have had to beat someone like Vincent Feigenbutz, Gilberto Ramirez, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. or Julius Jackson.
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