Jeff horn teammate Dennis Hogan stopped in vicious mauling

Jeff Horn teammate Dennis Hogan was bludgeoned to a seventh-round TKO defeat by the bigger, younger WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo in the Big Apple.

Jermall Charlo drops Dennis Hogan. Picture: Emilee Chinn/Getty

In an ominous warning to Jeff Horn, his training partner Dennis Hogan was bludgeoned to a seventh-round TKO defeat by the bigger, younger WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo in New York.

Horn fights a rematch with the bigger, younger Melbourne middleweight Michael Zerafa in Brisbane next week and Charlo’s brutal victory at the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn had overtones of Zerafa’s vicious win over Horn in Bendigo four months ago.

Hogan suffered the first stoppage loss of his career in what was his 32nd pro fight. His only previous two defeats were points decisions in world title bouts and he had been emboldened for the Charlo fight by an emphatic performance in pushing unbeaten WBO 70kg champ Jaime Munguia to a close decision in Mexico last April.

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Jermall Charlo drops Dennis Hogan. Picture: Emilee Chinn/Getty

The 183cm Charlo, who has the image of a raging lion tattooed on his chest, was ready for Hogan though, using his 10cm height and 13cm reach advantage to the full in a fight with a weight limit of 72.5kg.

At a fiery weigh-in ceremony a day earlier Charlo warned Hogan that he would be fighting for his life.

So it proved to be.

Hogan, 34, looked the much smaller man but had a good first round, posing problems for the unbeaten Texan with his darting movement.

That was as good as it got, though, for the Dublin-born Aussie who has lived in Brisbane since 2010.

Charlo, 29, whose twin brother Jermell has also been a world champ, started landing power shots from both hands in Round 2.

Hogan recently had the image of his grandfather Paddy Burke tattooed on his body above the old man’s last words to him ``Give it everything you’ve got’’.

And Hogan tried everything to turn Charlo around but the bigger man’s power advantage was obvious and at the start of the fourth round Charlo cracked Hogan with a wicked left uppercut that made the challenger hit the canvas and do a complete back somersault.

Charlo poured on the punches for the rest of the round but Hogan held tough, fighting back against insurmountable odds.

With just seven KO wins in his 32 fights, Hogan did not have the punch to hold Charlo off and he took a beating in Rounds 5 and 6.

Finally in Round 7, Charlo fired a sweeping left hook that put Hogan down for the second time in the fight. He rose on unsteady legs and American referee Charlie Fitch stopped the bout 28 seconds into the round.

Charlo is now unbeaten in 30 fights, with 22 wins by KO.

``Shout out to Dennis Hogan for giving me real competition and for coming up to fight me,’’ Charlo said. ``Of course my power prevailed tonight.’’

If Hogan fights again it should be back in the 70kg division where he is not at such a sizeable disadvantage.