By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (18-0, 10 KOs) will be facing replacement opponent 40-year-old Dominic Guinn(35-10-1, 24 KOs) this Saturday night on the undercard of the Nick Blackwell vs. Chris Eubank Jr. at the Wembley Arena in London, UK.
The 22-year-old Hughie was supposed to be fighting the 29-year-old Nagy Aguilera, but he pulled out due to an injury of some sort. Hughie’s management then found the journeyman Guinn to step in with less than a week’s notice. A good fight this is not. The only positive you can say about Guinn as an opponent is the fact that he’s got a good chin and will likely be able to go the full 10 round distance.
If Hughie is interested in scoring a knockout in this fight, then he might want to think twice. Guinn will have no problems taking Hughie’s light punches. If Hughie gets too bold, he might wind up getting knocked out for his troubles.
Hughie doesn’t have much power, so he has to really load up on his shots to generate any kind of power. The problem with Hughie loading up with his shots is he telegraphs his punches badly. Hughie reaches back to throw his punches, and that makes him vulnerable. If Hughie loads up with too many shots, Guinn could take advantage of this by clocking him with a big shot that he’s quite capable of throwing.
It should be an entertaining fight. Guinn is pretty much at the same level as Fury’s previously scheduled opponent Aguilera. The only difference is that Guinn will be able to go the distance. Guinn also has decent punching power, so don’t be surprised if Hughie goes back to his hit and run fighting style that we normally see from him.
Hughie will be fighting next month as well on April 30 on the Billy Joe Saunders vs. Max Bursak card at the Copper Box Arena in London, UK. There isn’t an opponent for Hughie on that fight card. I wouldn’t be surprised if Hughie finds out who he’ll be fighting the week of the fight.
In one sense it would be interesting to see Guinn extend Hughie the full distance, because it would nice to see Hughie have to deal with some adversity. But having seen Hughie run around the ring to avoid getting hit by Andriy Rudenko and Georgia Arias in recent fights that went the distance, I don’t think it’s going to be all that interesting to watch Hughie go 10 rounds with Guinn. This could be really ugly if Hughie plays week away like he did against Rudenko and Arias. If Hughie resorts to fighting like that, then I hope Guinn puts some pressure on him so that it’s a worthwhile fight to watch.
Guinn is probably going to be about as good as it gets for the 6’6″ Hughie right now, because it looks like his promoter won’t be taking any chance of putting him in with a live body and risking him getting knocked out or schooled.
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