Hughie Fury steps up (kinda) versus Nagy Aguilera, on Blackwell vs. CEJ undercard

So the Dominican banger - coming off his 2nd best ever career result with a mild upset TKO10 over Marcin Rekowski (and boasting a blitz KO1 destruction of former champ Oleg Maskaev in 2009) - is certainly in a higher class than most of the competition faced thus far by Tyson Fury's younger cousin. He's still, however, part of a run of now four in a row constituting a major regression after Hughie widely outpointed Ukrainian fringe contender Anridy Rudenko, becoming the first man to defeat him convincingly as many feel Rudenko was robbed in his UD12 loss to Lucas Browne. That should have been a springboard for Hughie, but in what is becoming par for the course for Team Fury judging by their handling of Eddie Chambers, the choice appears to have been made to feast on significantly outmatched foes to pad up the numbers and creep up the rankings biding time for a payday. Shame, as Hughie is a talented young heavyweight and probably better served with a steady progression of challenges to aid in his development to ready him for the big chance when it comes.

There have been no red flags signaling enough doubt in his punch resistance to suggest Hughie is even staring down the barrel of a "puncher's chance" from Aguilera. He is a superior fighter in every sense to Rekowski, and the only real question here is whether he can halt Nagy (which only Sam Peter and Chris Arreola have managed, with those who failed including Gerald Washington, Dominic Breazeale, Antonio Tarver and Tomasz Adamek) - and getting the KO would be the only way to read much value into this addition to his résumé. Even a quick and savage KO is probably not enough to put it even on a par with the UD10 over Rudenko.

 

..right, because great track record..

 

...and 19th.

 

I think Hughie can get rid of Aguilera if he fancies the job.

 

I just don't trust Aguilera's durability really (and don't hold Washington or Breazeale in very high esteem). Hughie is a very different fighter stylistically than either Peter or Arreola, both heavy-handed clubbers, but he's better than either of them overall and like you said can do some damage when he sits down on punches.

 

Even the "new and improved" Nagy shouldn't be able to withstand a sustained and dedicated attack from Hughie if he elects to force the issue. Whether or not he does, though, is definitely in question.

 

Is there anyone that wouldn't strongly favor Rudenko over Aguilera? :think

 

Aguilera has, Big O aside, fought half a dozen credible names and lost to all six. Two are unbeaten American hype jobs (both VERY mediocre), two are blown up and past-prime cruisers without much real crunch at HW, and the other two smashed Aguilera up. Peter in his day is regarded as having the ability to knock anyone out any given night, fair enough, but Arreola was never really that kind of puncher despite being marketed that way. Fury has twelve rounds to do the job here and not doing it would be a disappointment.