McCullough? What can I say? The man is a warrior, a little Joe Frazier. He
got hit flush on the button and on the few occasions he backed up he just
reloaded and came right in again. His defense shows no improvement. The
announcers said he had trouble making weight, and might have to move up
to 122. Welcome to the division from hell, Wayne. It doesn't get any easier.

Who won? Damned if I can tell you. McCullough said after the fight that
he was prepared to accept any decision. I took this to mean that he would
not have claimed he got robbed if Bueno had won. Bueno obviously thought
he should have been given the decision.

Compare this fight with McCullough-Rabanales. That one was even after 10
IMO, but McCullough made a tiring Rabanales miss a lot in 11 and 12. Not
so this time. Each fighter nailed the other at will while taking
punishment in return. This fight was a lot closer than
McCullough-Rabanales and way harder to score. I don't think McCullough's
work rate and aggression was superior to Bueno's, and I can't say his
punches had the greater effect, at least up to the final bell. I bet you
they both piss blood for a while. Get this hummer on tape, whatever it takes.

Mcullough is about the most exciting fighter out there right now.  But his
skills are not top 10 P4P skills.  I don't see him moving up to 122 and
beating Barerra or Hamed.  He throws a lot of punches but his power is
only average.  His defense, while improving, is still not very good.  He
just squares up to his opponent too much and takes punches.   But his
fights are great to watch.  He is fighting on the June 7th undercard and
them moving up to 122.  I don't predict he will have a very long career.  
Since he doesn't have too much power he must grind out every win and he
takes a lot of punishment to get those wins.  

Bueno looked pretty good.  His power seemd good after moving up from 115.  
I was suprised that he even got 1 judge to score for him over in Ireland.  
I figured he had no chance to win but by KO.  

The first fight on the card featured Cory Johnson vs Shanon Taylor from
Australia.  Taylor was hyped up a lot as a power puncher but he looked
pretty poor to me.  I thought he lost most of the rounds to the slick
boxer Johnson.  Taylor did score a knockdown in the 10th to get  a draw.  
They only have the ref score in Ireland.  The scoring was even at 98-98 or
maybe 97-97.  I thought johnson easily outboxed the slow plodding Taylor
for 7 out of 9 rounds before the last round.  Even scoring it 10-8 I sill
have Johnson ahead but a few points.  But it was also a pretty good fight.  

Johnson seems to be a pretty good fighter.  His only loss was to Stevie
Johnston who is VERY good.  Taylor was very slow and his power is good but
his defense and movement are horrible.

Bueno was a former world champ and a tough customer,but I thought Wayne
landed more blows.It was a close fight,with plenty of rounds that could
have
gone either way....I'd love to see a re-match.

Take care Mel!

-Joe-

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