Frank Buglioni fails in bid to claim WBA title from Fedor Chudinov

WBA world super middleweight champion Fedor Chudinov (14-0, 11 KOs) won a wide 12 round unanimous decision over gutsy hometown hero Frank Buglioni (17-2-1, 13 KOs) at the SSE Arena in Wembley, London, England Saturday night.

Despite a valiant performance from Buglioni, the Russian was a unanimous victor with the judges, who scored the fight 120-106, 118- 108 and 117-109 respectively.

Buglioni’s flurry in the fourth brought the crowd to their feet, but he was then deducted two points for flooring Chudinov after the end of the fifth.

Collins has repeatedly claimed that the only fight that would get him back in the ring would be a bout with multi-weight great Roy Jones Jr.

Khomitsky stopped the then-undefeated Buglioni in six rounds in April 2014 before his decision to join new trainers Steve and Paschal Collins. He tattooed Buglioni with stiff jabs and combinations to the head and body. Buglioni was slowing in the sixth, as Chudinov landed a big right to the body and continued to walk the challenger down. “Fact. Throw the right hand, we beg you, we will pay you to throw the right hand, and see what happens”.

Chudinov began to establish his superiority in rounds two and three. When Buglioni did fire back, they appeared to bounce off Chudinov. He came out with a plan and fought about as well as one could have expected, and he went the distance with a guy who was landing a lot of clean shots over the course of the fight, particularly once Buglioni started getting stuck on the inside.

Buglioni had pinpointed the Russian as his best chance of seizing a world title but was barely able to win a round.

After the fight, Chudinov said “He has a good punch”.

Twice he banged his gloves together in the penultimate session as if to summon one final effort but his showboating shimmy was fooling nobody, least of all Chudinov.

With no option but to take the fight to the Russian, Buglioni struggled to repel the Chudinov’s attacks in the seventh stanza as he showed no ill-effects from his trip to the canvas.

“Nascimento, 34, had the size advantage over the 6’1″ Chisora, but he was too sloppy and wild to land many of his wild windmill shots against the British fighter.

Chudinov, though, was the better man, and demonstrably so.