Union Cane's Prediction League - 12th and Final Round

Union Cane's Prediction League

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Week Eleven Results

1. Vitali Klitschko v. Tomasz Adamek (12)	Vitali Klitschko TKO 10 (LKO)
2. Yuriorkis Gamboa v. Daniel Ponce de Leon (12)	Yuriorkis Gamboa TD 8 (LKO)
3. Paul McCloskey v. Breidis Prescott (12)	Paul McCloskey UD
4. Juan Carlos Salgado v. Argenis Mendez (12)	Juan Carlos Salgado UD
5. Oliver McCall v. Bert Cooper (10)

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Week Eleven Review

Tomasz Adamek is a two-weight world champion, and therefore clearly no mug, but he was no match for Vitali Klitschko. Simply too small to compete, Adamek did well to last as long as he did but was never going to beat the bigger man.

Paul McCloskey should change his name to McLucky, after a terrible start he somehow managed to turn things round (helped no doubt by the home crowd cheering every punch he threw, let alone landed) and get a controversial decision against Breidis Prescott.

Some very high scores this week, even without the McCall / Cooper result, which is not in yet. which is now a voided fight.

When will I learn not to use fights from these back-water third-world countries?

'Predictor of the Week' is a tricky one this week, with Mind the windows Tino., alma, licence_007 and Reborn-DeeMcK-Reborn all getting all four fights spot on and amassing 16 points each. As it's impossible to split them, this week's award goes to Michaels, Sean, who, despite all the points on offer, still only managed a paltry 3 points. Took some doing that, well done Sean.

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Week Eleven League Table

Position	User Name	Weekly Score	Total Score
1	The genius of PBF	14	100
2	coxy0001	13	99
3	Knowsit17	14	96
4	Union Cane	9	91
5	rowley	13	90
6	Jdizzle	14	89
7	Mind the windows Tino.	16	87
8	Dazstarr	13	86
9	ian_jamsie	9	85
10	compelling and rich	8	84
=11	sodhat	6	82
=11	alma	16	82
=13	Il Gialloblu	5	78
=13	The Galveston Giant	13	78
=15	Eyetoldyouso	9	75
=15	JJJohnson	12	75
17	TopHat24/7	14	71
18	Michaels, Sean	3	69
19	bhb001	9	64
=20	licence_007	16	57
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=20	eddyfightfan	12	57
22	WelshDevilRob	13	56
23	DavidBlunkettsuppercut	13	37
24	Boxtthis	0	36
25	prettyboykev	10	34
26	Reborn-DeeMcK-Reborn	16	33
27	Super D Boon	0	31
28	TRUSSMAN66	0	29
29	PPVxHOTTY	0	28
=30	Sugar Boy Sweetie	0	27
=30	Day V Lately	0	27
32	Dominic Dicoco	0	24
=33	Solder_of_Fortune	0	23
=33	Steffan	0	23
35	d260005p	0	19
36	Scottrf	0	17
37	Lumbering_Jack	11	16
38	wow_junky	0	14
39	spencerclarke	0	9
40	wheelchair1991	0	8
41	King Raoh	0	4

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Week Twelve Fights

It's the final week, so we are going out in style with ten fights to predict :

1. Floyd Mayweather Jr v. Victor Ortiz (12)
2. Erik Morales v. Pablo Cesar Cano (12)
3. Jessie Vargas v. Josesito Lopez (10)
4. Anthony Crolla v. Juan Montiel (8)
5. Saul Alvarez v. Alfonso Gomez (12)
6. Tyson Fury v. Nicolai Firtha (12)
7. Ryan Greene v. Willie Thompson (10)
8. Willie Casey v. Daniel Kodjo Sassou (8)
9. Stephen Smith v. Lee Selby (12)
10. Paul Smith v. Paul Samuels (8)

Remember, the Top 20 qualify for next season's Prediction Premiership, so it is all to play for.

Get predicting, and good luck!

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Scoring and Rules

For any newcomers and the forgetful, scoring and rules as follows :

• Predict the winner - 1 point

• - Predict the method (KO*/Pts) - 1 point

• - - Predict Early / Late (for KO) or Unanimous / Split / Majority (for Pts) - 1 point

• Get all three above correct - 1 bonus point

• 10 points will be awarded for correctly predicting a draw.

• *TKO, DQ, TD or Retirement all count as KO

• I will list fights 1 - 5, this list will be definitive, when predicting please list fights in the same order.

• Any entries that are subsequently amended will be void.

• If a fight is cancelled, or if a fighter drops out and is replaced, that fight is then void.

I think that just about covers it, any questions feel free to ask.

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Predictor of the Week Award

Week One	Knowsit17
Week Two	Knowsit17
Week Three	The genius of PBF
Week Four	Sugar Boy Sweetie
Week Five	Il Gialloblu
Week Six	coxy0001
Week Seven	ian_jamsie
Week Eight	eddyfightfan
Week Nine	coxy0001
Week Ten	JJJohnson
Week Eleven	Michaels, Sean
Week Twelve	-

Nice one Union! I will sort my entry out once I get home and boxrec the ones I havent heard of!

bloody hell union out of twenty fighters i only know about four!! off to boxrec i go!!!!

Too much like hard work! Good luck with it and may the best guesser win!

Perhaps we should have fights where we've actually heard of the fighters. Might get more people interested if they can actually go on their knowledge rather than going by what boxrec tells them.

Just a thought

For instance you can have:

Haye vs Wlad
Wonjongkam vs Kogawa
Hernan Marquez vs Dapudong
Afolabi vs Dunstan
Sexton vs Robinson

And leave it at 5 fights that everyone should know how to get right without having to google who the eff they are!

Good idea coxy, perhaps you should organise your own prediction league then you can run it how you want.

Union Cane wrote:Good idea coxy, perhaps you should organise your own prediction league then you can run it how you want.

Rough weekend?

As Donald Rumsfeld said, "There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know."

Maybe by researching these unknown fighters, they become known unknowns, thereby broadening our knowledge of the sport we profess to love.

Or perhaps, coxy, you could only join in when Roy Jones is fighting.

Union Cane wrote:Good idea coxy, perhaps you should organise your own prediction league then you can run it how you want.

Or maybe you should heed the obvious and realise the other one dwindled away because most of the fights were random 8 rounders with guys no-one had a scooby about.

Don't worry, i won't be taking part so you'll be saved from any further negative comments

Cheers then.

Bit touchy there coxy

Touche

coxy0001 wrote:Perhaps we should have fights where we've actually heard of the fighters. Might get more people interested if they can actually go on their knowledge rather than going by what boxrec tells them.

Just a thought

For instance you can have:

Haye vs Wlad
Wonjongkam vs Kogawa
Hernan Marquez vs Dapudong
Afolabi vs Dunstan
Sexton vs Robinson

And leave it at 5 fights that everyone should know how to get right without having to google who the eff they are!

Wouldn't that put you at a disadvantage then coxy.

Looks like it will be easier than I thought to keep track of the scores...

Union, simply put UD for the first name in every fight for every week from herein for me. Ta!

coxy0001 wrote:Union, simply put UD for the first name in every fight for every week from herein for me. Ta!

As you wish, squire.

1. Wladimir Klitschko v. David Haye (12) haye UD
2. Jonathan Victor Barros v. Celestino Caballero (12) majorty draw
3. Ola Afolabi v. Terry Dunstan (12) ola afolabi UD
4. Ashley Sexton v. Mike Robinson ( 8 ) sexton UD
5. Ryuji Migaki v. Shoji Kawase (12) kawase late TKO
6. Jorge Paez Jr v. Jesus Gurrola (10) jorge paez jr SD
7. Katia Gutierrez v. Ana Arrazola (10) arrazola early KO
8. Hernan Marquez v. Edrin Dapudong (12) marquez UD
9. Maxim Smirnov v. Khabib Allakherdiev ( 8 ) khabib early KO
10. Fariz Kazimov v. Dmitry Mikhaylenko (12) dmitry UD

I suppose I'd better have a go myself...

1. Haye LKO
2. Barros UD
3. Afolabi UD
4. Sexton UD
5. Kawase LKO
6. Paez Jr UD
7. Arrazola UD
8. Marquez LKO
9. Allakherdiev UD
10. Mikhaylenko UD

union i take it early mid and late are the same as last prediction league? if i remember correctly:

12 rounds:
early 1-4
Mid- 5-8
Late- 9-12

10 rounds
early 1-3
Mid 4-6
Late 7-10

i cant remember what we did for a eight rounder

Sorry mate I should have made a point of saying that there is no 'mid', I'm just doing early and late, so early is 1-6 for a 12 rounder, 1-5 for a ten and 1-4 for an 8 round fight.

no probs bit easier that way at least and even number of rounds for each category, just need to get of the fence and make a decision on the haye wlad fight now

Roll up, roll up, anyone can have a go...

IJK? Whatever happened to Klutey anyhoo's.

I'm defo in this Union - just need to find some time in the evenings to hammer boxrec.

This competition currently has two entrants, one of which is me, and also coxy's half-bothered attempt at being clever.

606v2, I must say I am disappointed.

If things don't improve I shall cry.

Without wishing to incur your wrath, why don't you go to the 5 fight thing? I don't mind the idea of 10 as such, but I only really use this site at work and boxrec tends to be one of those sites where pop ups fly all over my screen and wreck my computer.

Ok, in the style of Ken Clarke I will, with purpose and panache, perform an almighty u-turn, and go with the 5 fight thing.

I shall amend the top bit and I expect lots of new entrants.

As Ghandi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

Union get it down to five fights and I'll enter, don't tend to enter because I don't follow the modern game as closely as a lot of guys on here but if it's five fights with guys I've halfa chance of having heard of I'll join in. Have a fear if this doesn't take off you will use your time creating more reverse linear threads, can't take the chance.

1. Wladimir Klitschko v. David Haye (12) Wlad late KO
2. Jonathan Victor Barros v. Celestino Caballero (12) Caballero PTS
3. Ola Afolabi v. Terry Dunstan (12) Afolabi late KO
4. Ashley Sexton v. Mike Robinson ( 8 ) Sexton early KO
5. Ryuji Migaki v. Shoji Kawase (12) Migaki PTS

why 5, i spent ages (well 10 mins) carefully studying form, and am convinced i've cracked it.....

I can't win!

Tell you what eddy, as there's only me and yourself who have already predicted the 10 fights, we will get any points due from all 10 fights.

Cue complaints from everyone else...

Seems this is about as popular as another Haye vs Harrison fight.

As they say on dragons den, "I'm out!"

Haye EKO
Caballero LKO
Afolabi PTS
Sexton LKO
Kiwase PTS

Haye LKO
Caballero PTS
Afolabi LKO
Sexton UD
Kawase UD

Thank you sir!

Haye EKO
Caballero PTS
Afolabi LKO
Robinson SD
Migaki UD




I think you should have done 10 !

Coxy will be gutted now. Burnt his bridge

Wlad Early Ko
Caballero PTS (UD)
Olafabi PTS (UD)
Sexton Early KO
Mr Miyagi Late KO

I notice that some of you have predicted "PTS", I will take this to be the same as "UD", as opposed to "MD" or "SD".

Union Cane wrote:I notice that some of you have predicted "PTS", I will take this to be the same as "UD", as opposed to "MD" or "SD".

Oh FFS, it's not enough you expect me to take part you also seem to want me to read the instructions. I'm a reasonable man but you're trying even my patience.

FFS?

That's almost as bad as LOL, you are becoming that which you so despise!

Union is unavoidable mate, were I to use the full phrase rather than the acronym fear I would be confined to a week in the cooler a la Balti

More likely to be a CAGE than a cooler...

Either way not something I want to risk. Have my good name and standing to consider.

You could just say flipping heck or blimey then, I think those are ok.

Union Cane wrote:You could just say flipping heck or blimey then, I think those are ok.

Would guess saying Flip though would be a definite no no

1. Wladimir Klitschko LKO
2. Celestino Caballero UD
3. Ola Afolabi EKO
4. Ashley Sexton UD
5. Ryuji Migaki UD

plenty of numbers now union, you should know that most people dont post untill the end of the week

Union Cane wrote:You could just say flipping heck or blimey then, I think those are ok.

chuffing hell.

Michaels, Sean wrote:

Union Cane wrote:You could just say flipping heck or blimey then, I think those are ok.

chuffing hell.

Nice Sean, proper Yorkshire phrase.

Haye mid-fight KO
Caballero UD
Afolabi mid-fight TKO
Sexton UD
Kawase mid-fight TKO

No more mids Knowsit, early or late.

Saved me a job there Daz!

We're up to 10 now, and its only Wednesday.

What if it happens around the time of round 6-8 boss?