Ben McCulloch to fight for interim WBA world SMW title

[dan h]

Anyone excited about this?

He has a lot of inactivity in his career, but winning this could put him in line for some decent pay days.

http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/bika-ge ... nov-272676

[Sweet P]

Big opportunity for Ben. He has a great chance of winning the Belt. It's ordinary that the Aussie boxing media have practically ignored it.

[dan h]

Ben got koed in the second.

Unfortunately it appears to be another case of an Aussie not having enough tough fights before getting his shot.

I suppose with all his inactivity it was a great achievement to even get a title shot.

[crusader]

Scary KO. McCulloch knocked out cold and down for several minutes.

Full fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li-Vof6tTnQ

[fox]

I hope Ben makes a full recovery. He got iced. Not suprised that he got beat because of his inactivity but suprised he was beat in that fashion.

[Beltane]

That was a terrible temple shot that took out Ben, so lets hope there is no after effects.

From his record Ben had been fighting some pretty average opposition before this fight, whereas he really needed a few harder fights before getting in with the Russian.

[Giancarlo]

From his record Ben had been fighting some pretty average opposition before this fight, whereas he really needed a few harder fights before getting in with the Russian.

Good point.

It's been proven time and again that knocking over a few Manila folders is not the best preparation immediately prior to testing yourself against a world class fighter.

[fox]

He fought some reasonable fighters early on. Flannagan, Shaik, Piper but his inactivity has probably gone against him. He was a pretty handy amateur as well and has a good whack. Been a fair while since he fought a good fighter.