By Scott Gilfoid: Promoter Mick Hennessy sees his fighter heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (18-0, 10 KOs) in a dangerous fight this month against journeyman Nagy Aguilera (20-9, 14 KOs) on March 26 at the Wembley Arena in London, UK.
While many boxing fans see this as yet another mismatch involving young Hughie fighting a struggling journeyman, Hennessy sees it as a difficult fight and a great match-up. I guess to see things through the same frame of mind that Hennessy sees it, you would have to ignore the 29-year-old Aguilera’s two defeats in his last three fights or his three defeats in his last six fights.
I don’t know how you can characterize Aguilera as being a dangerous fight when he’s clearly been struggling as of late. Yeah, he was beaten by Gerald Washington and Dominic Breazeale, both good heavyweights, but he was still beaten.
Heck, those aren’t the only defeats on Aguilera’s resume. He has a whole mess of other losses that didn’t just spring up overnight without him actually getting whipped.
“It is a dangerous fight,” said Hennessy to IFL TV about Hughie’s fight against Aguilera. “He’s [Aguilera] the type of fighter where you’re not world class, you’ll get beaten. He’ll expose you. He went over to Poland in September and did the same thing. He knocked out a good heavyweight in 10 rounds. So if you’re not truly world class, you’ll get found out by this kid. He’s got a good engine himself. He has a very high workrate for a heavyweight, and he can punch and he comes to win. There’s no coming to make up the numbers. Only the world class fighters will get past him.
Here’s the deal; Hughie is fighting another soft job in the minds of a lot of boxing fans. Hennessy can try and whitewash the fight all he wants to try and built it up to be a dangerous fight, but the fans see it as another mismatch. Instead of talking up the mismatch, Hennessy should be keeping a low profile so that the fans don’t find out that Hughie is in with another journeyman level opponent.
There had been talk that Hughie was going to fight a talented top contender in Alexander Ustinov or Andrey Fedosov. What happened to them? Is this the old bait and switch? I think speak for everyone when I say I hate the Hughie-Aguilera fight, and no, I don’t see it as a dangerous fight for Hughie. It will show us whether Hughie is a fighter or a runner. It will also show us whether Hughie has any talent.
If Hughie uses his hit and run style of fighting against Aguilera, then the victory will pretty much the same as a loss in my book. Hughie has to be able to stand in the pocket and blast out the journeyman level fighters like Aguilera. He can’t run, he can’t hold, and he can’t stink up the joint because it’s going to be televised.
“Fair play to him,” Hennessy said about Hughie. “He’s 21-years-old, taking fights like this. [He’s a] great talent. He’s improving with every fight. I’m really looking forward to see him on the 26th, and it’s a great fight. This is a fight where the public is going to seriously start getting behind Hughie Fury because he’s a major talent,” said Hennessy.
About the only good thing I can say about Aguilera is he didn’t lose his last fight. He beat some little known fighter named Marcin Rekowski last September by a 10th round knockout in Poland. It looks to be like Aguilera was brought in as the B-side opponent for the 38-year-old Rekowski, and he pulled off an upset. How much of an upset was it thought when he was fighting a guy almost 40-years-old? I mean, I can’t get too excited about Aguilera beating an old guy that I’ve never heard of.
I hate to say it but I don’t see the talent there with Hughie that Hennessy is talking about. I see a light punching heavyweight with good height at 6’6”, but terrible instincts and an unpleasant style of fighting. Hughie can’t seem to stand in the pocket in his fights unless he’s facing someone truly gawd awful.
Aguilera is not a great fighter, but I bet that we’re going to see Hughie running around the ring and not standing in the pocket against this guy. Aguilera is the same fighter that Chris Arreola stopped in the 3rd round back in 2011. If Hughie can’t do something similar with Aguilera, then that’ll tell me where Hughie is in terms of talent.
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