He went over to Russia and gave it a go for the interim WBA 168lb title. [yt]Li-Vof6tTnQ[/yt] It was a respectable effort. Chudinov just proved too powerful. (Golovkin/Matthysse/Kovalev type power and capability to deliver it) I think he cleans house domestically with all but Carr, and both of them lose handily to Bika. (although McCulloch is Bika's mate and chief sparring partner anyway) Thoughts from down under?
Just another Aussie with a padded record that gets obliterated when they step up to the plate. The only decent Aussie coming through the ranks who has world class level of skill is Jeff Horn :good
Indeed, secrets out now however, koing a contender for 7 mins in under 2 rounds... If he not a future animal im sure he going to be a few wars or very entertaining fights... So many easyern european/ russian fighters coming thru to keep an eye on...
McCullough had a dig but his defence was non existent most of the time. Chudinov is in a different class. Predictable result, brutal KO. Career ending fight for the 32yr old McCullough ?
I would love to see McCulloch use his jab more and maybe catch a few jabs while he's at it. No head movement at all. He's got the tools, just needs to work on those things, and there basic things, and he's got the potential to be alright.
Your right, good point. That's the thing that shocked me, the ease that he ate simple jabs coming at him and the way he almost looked frozen with his movement. As you said maybe the moment got the better of him.
Yeah I tend to agree. Massive class gap there. I don't know why these kids attempt shoulder rolls. But I'm glad to see the Russians tear through them.
The shoulder roll is the result of spending to much time as a sparring partner for Mundine and attempting the **** that he does.
All you people who want to show some empathy for McCullogh, saying he had a go...good on you, but really, having a go, is not related to having a REAL go whilst using good boxing skills; is it ? His performance was near to pathetic. His head was high. His head was open for any opponent to clonk. He eventually got clonked hard, and instead of moving away, which would have been the sensible strategic method of staying in the game, he decided to sell his ticket to stay on board with several further useless blows, which caused further retaliation from Chudinov to his head which put him down for a very, long count. Had a go? mmm....Had a very bad go. When you fight a KO specialist, as Chudinov has proved, you need to keep away from this specialist's fist. I would have thought that a better strategy than taking on Chudinov clonk to clonk, would have been to spear and fire a rocket style left jab at him, then move away and around the ring, rather than come up to him with swinging, poor, pitter-patter swinging style punches. It is really one of those ****E poor fights that I would like to never remember....
Lepinthehood: what you wrote/inferred about our indigenous fighters is really disgraceful, it is false/dishonest and very racial; and is something that will cause me and others to withdraw from this forum; you should edit/withdraw it.