Frank Buglioni was always going to be up against it when he took on Fedor Chudinov for the WBA super middleweight title. As most had predicted, Chudinov scored a fairly comprehensive win, however Buglioni’s immensly brave performance will have won him many new fans to add to his vociferous legions of supporters.

While the accurate, economical, clinical Russian out-landed the London-born, Dublin-trained fighter, one of the fight’s main talking points centred around a shot landed by ‘The Wise Guy.’ In the closing stages of the sixth stanza Buglioni landed a bomb on the Russian’s chin, and had the champion in trouble as he poured forward. As the Celtic Warriors fighter unloaded on Chudinov the bell rang and Buglioni landed a shot flush on the chin, flooring the Russian.

While the bell had rang, Buglioni was in the process of throwing a volley of shots and was perhaps deafened by the electric atmosphere created by his fans. Referee Terry O’Connor however was unsympathetic, and docked the Enfield man two points.

Watch the full fight below, skip to 26:30 for the knockdown incident:

Video courtesy of The Boxing Junkies Corner