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

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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	-

Look Union I was nice enough to join your competition and by dint give it a much needed air of respectability, dignity and maturity. I also make the effort to post my predictions with the regularity of the finest swiss timepiece and even defended you in the late prediction young towser affair, as such you should be more considerate of those who treat the thread with respect and not pander to those who can't be bothered to contribute in the spirit of things without being wet nursed.

I agree Jeff, and fear not, it will stay at 12 weeks.

If it was just 4 weeks then a fluke draw prediction in the first week (mentioning no Knowsit17s) would give you a virtually unassailable lead straight away.

It is a marathon, not a sprint, as my missus says to me sometimes of an evening.

Perhaps tweak the rules then so that you get 4 points for correct fighter, 4 for correct result (be it points or stoppage) and 4 points for early/mid/late/sd/md/ud

Then run it over 4 weeks and jobs a good'un. People won't stay interested for 12 weeks.

It's running for 12 weeks either deal with that reality or sod off. Bloody kids.

rowley wrote:It's running for 12 weeks either deal with that reality or sod off. Bloody kids.

Has the cage been chaffing you Rowley?

Am only suggesting for the next one to tweak as per my brilliant suggestions above, with bigger points (much like F1) the likelyhood of a "freak" week not paying off over the shortened T20 style 4 week format.

I give it until week 9 before there's about 3 people entering

T20 is cricket for thick people with the attention span of goldfish. Union's current format is the test match of prediction competitions and as anyone not an MTV, playstation raised mong knows Test matches are far superior to wham bam thank you mam shortened versions.

Keep that faith Union, like your reverse linear threads suspect it will be many years until the genius of these threads is appreciated.

1. Djenny Lukusa v. Douglas Chilembe - Lukusa LKO
2. Koji Sato v. Fukutaro Ujiie - Sato UD
3. Froilan Saludar v. Gabriel Pumar - Saludar UD
4. Randy Petalcorin v. Michel Rodriuez - Petalcorin LKO

Rowley, 12 weeks = 3 months. That's a quarter of the year, it's just overkill for me personally. 4 weeks is plenty with my brilliantly revised points system.

I'll win either way, so why quibble?!

Well I'll certainly join, Coxy, where is the thread?

I'll let yours run its course first Union

Ok, I'll see you in 6 weeks then.

(That's one and a half months though, so you might have lost interest by then.)

alma wrote:

Union Cane wrote:It read like a "Who's Who" of the great and the good of 606v2, but this is actually a list of those who haven't posted their predictions for Week Six yet.

As I'm languishing in mid-table, I am praying this is the case

It's about my only chance of climbing a few places as well. I dream at night of languishing in mid-table!!

1. Djenny Lukusa v. Douglas Chilembe - Lukusa EKO
2. Koji Sato v. Fukutaro Ujiie - Sato UD
3. Froilan Saludar v. Gabriel Pumar - Saludar UD
4. Randy Petalcorin v. Michel Rodriuez - Petalcorin UD

Must say i've never heard of any of them and I have done no research. Im expecting big things this week.

Djenny Lukusa KO Late
Koji Sato UD
Froilan Saludar UD
Randy Petalcorin UD

Djenny Lukusa UD
Koji Sato LKO
Froilan Saludar LKO
Randy Petalcorin EKO

Cheers Union!

1.Lukusa LKO
2.Sato EKO
3.Saludar EKO
4.Petalcorin EKO

1. Douglas Chilembe WKO -Early (Buster is back!)
2. Koji Sato WKO-Late
3. Froilan Saludar WKO - Early
4. Randy Petalcorin WUD

rudey poo week and the worst of this year.

Still had two competitive bouts in Coleman vs Paris and Hovhannesyan and Cruz that could have been added.

1. Djenny Lukusa UD
2. Koji Sato UD
3. Gabriel Pumar KO Late
4. Randy Petalcorin UD

The Galveston Giant wrote:3. Froilan Saludar v. Gabriel Pumar KO Late

Erm...???

How many points for a double KO?

Union Cane wrote:

The Galveston Giant wrote:3. Froilan Saludar v. Gabriel Pumar KO Late

Erm...???

Good morning Union.

No help please. If that is GG's choice then leave it as is.

Ok sorry, if the double-knockout does happen he will get the points.

He is way too close to me in the table for you to be helping him.

Not that I take it that seriously, you'll understand.

Scottrf wrote:How many points for a double KO?

One point for each winner, so that's two, two more for two correct methods, which makes four, two more if it's a late KO so that is six, two bonus points for getting all that right, so that is eight, and then the ten points for the draw.

18.

1. Djenny Lukusa v. Douglas Chilembe (12) - Djenny Lukusa LKO

2. Koji Sato v. Fukutaro Ujiie (12) - Koji Sato EKO

3. Froilan Saludar v. Gabriel Pumar (12) - Froilan Saludar EKO

4. Randy Petalcorin v. Michel Rodriguez (12) - Randy Petalcorin UD

Everyone seems to have opted for lukusa in the opening fight. I think everyone is missing the point that chilembe was rubbish while fighting in Zimbabwe but has been awesome since setting up camp in the Congo (literally). I also assume he just gave lukusa's brother a battering.

1. Lukusa UD
2. Sato UD
3. Saludar UD
4. Petalcorin UD

No boxrec this week. Just doing it blind.

1. Djenny Lukusa v. Douglas Chilembe (12) Lukusa UD
2. Koji Sato v. Fukutaro Ujiie (12) Sato LKO
3. Froilan Saludar v. Gabriel Pumar (12) Pumar EKO
4. Randy Petalcorin v. Michel Rodriguez (12) Petalcorin LKO

Michaels, Sean wrote:Everyone seems to have opted for lukusa in the opening fight. I think everyone is missing the point that chilembe was rubbish while fighting in Zimbabwe but has been awesome since setting up camp in the Congo (literally). I also assume he just gave lukusa's brother a battering.

Good summary of the reasons why I went for Chilembe

Chilembe UD
Sato LKO
Gabriel Pumar UD
Michel Rodriguez EKO

Lukusa LKO
Sato LKO
Saludar UD
Petalcorin UD

1. Djenny Lukusa v. Douglas Chilembe (12) Lukusa LTKO
2. Koji Sato v. Fukutaro Ujiie (12) Sato EKO
3. Froilan Saludar v. Gabriel Pumar (12) UD
4. Randy Petalcorin v. Michel Rodriguez (12) UD

Sorry for being so late, was out all day yesterday, promise I'm on GMT and not some Australian Toon Lass timezone......

Can you remove me from this competition please

Cheers

Amended mine if it's too late it's cool.

Can I join today?

Results are in.

Well, most of them.

Slowly climbing! Into the top ten now! Thanks Union.

Cant find anything about the missing fight. When I google Djenny Lukusa - this thread comes top.

At least you have topped the Google rankings Union!

'Predictor of the week' was not a difficult choice this week, as one man unruffled by the prospect of blind guesswork was coxy0001

I'll have you know i spent all night studying form, watching videos (not porn) and making calls to various underground figures!

Tension is mounting, exciting times here at Prediction League HQ.

We could have a new leader if anyone can find the Lukusa / Chilembe result.

Coxy predicted an EKO for Lukusa.

Knowsit predicted a draw.

Union Cane wrote:Tension is mounting, exciting times here at Prediction League HQ.

We could have a new leader if anyone can find the Lukusa / Chilembe result.

Coxy predicted an EKO for Lukusa.

Knowsit predicted a draw.

Union, if you can't find it, just put all the outcomes in a hat and pick the winner yourself. You seem like a trustworthy kind of chap.

It won't anymore of a farce than the Primetime competition anyway.

I'm following the UBO on Twitter. The fight was for their All-Africa Heavyweight Title so hopefully someone there will replace the dead cat on the treadmill and tweet the result shortly.

http://twitter.com/#!/uboboxing

If someone with a Twitter account could maybe give them a prod, that would be appreciated as there is a lot at stake here.

Union I got the prediction bang on, can't post the link at work, just take my word for it.

rowley wrote:Union I got the prediction bang on, can't post the link at work, just take my word for it.

Morning Jeff, bit of a poor weekend for you. No gloating today then?

Still happy Tino, to be honest on the grounds I normally know no more than 2 fighters each week am amazed it took this long for my pure guesswork to be exposed.

http://www.uboboxing.com/contact.htm

Union - Call them! This is vitally important if i'm going to be the first person to ever nail all the results spot on!

coxy0001 wrote:http://www.uboboxing.com/contact.htm

Union - Call them! This is vitally important if i'm going to be the first person to ever nail all the results spot on!

I have emailed Claude Kaninda.

Damn it! Very last! Well it was my first go I suppose and am still waiting for Lukusa to take down Chilembe, should give me another point!

Claude hasn't come back to me yet, but then I suppose he probably speaks French.

Anyone speak French?

Yep