**** Kirk's ESB Championships 2011 ****

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Salgado UD Klitschko UD Gamboa TKO

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Klitschko UD Mayweather UD Matthysse DECISION Gamboa T/KO, Jessie Vargas T/KO and Saul Alvarez T/KO

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Vitali Dec
Ola Afolabi TKO
Yuriorkis Gamboa TKO
Giovani Segura TKO
Jhonny Gonzalez Dec
Saul Alvarez Dec
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Dec
Lucas Martin Matthysse Dec
Alexander Dimitrenko Dec
Dmitry Pirog Dec
Serhiy Dzinziruk Dec

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Vitali Klitschko TKO 10
Ola Afolabi SD
Yuriorkis Gamboa TKO 2

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Vitali UD

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Adamek UD

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Carl UD
Salgado UD
Adamek UD
Ola UD
McCloskey TKO
Gamboa UD

 

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How will your picks hold up when they are open to challenge by anyone?
The Peoples Champion is our uncrowned gladiator, it is open for anyone, no matter how many fights you have, no matter what your record looks like, whether you come to the thread a few times a day or once a month, or you have never even posted in this thread before. Be the first to challenge the Champs picks and the title is up for grabs. :good

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0 Defences

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Arganis Mendez vs. Juan Carlos Salgado

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Lufcrazy crowned peoples Champion

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Challenger: Bajingo (Canelo)

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Champion: Lufcrazy (Rhodes)

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Bajingo!

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Challenger: Tackleberry (Alexander)

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Champion: Bajingo (Matthysse)

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Tackleberry!

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Champion: Tackleberry (Barros)

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Challenger: Chatty (Caballero)

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Champion: Tackleberry (Ramos)

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Challenger: BigBone (Shimoda)

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Champion: Tackleberry (Magdaleno)

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Challenger: Lufcrazy (Perez)

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Champion: Tackleberry (Fury)

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Challenger: Lufcrazy (Chisora)

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#1 Challenger: Bajingo (Dispaigne)

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Challenger: Robney (Miranda)

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Bajingo!

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Champion: Bajingo (Cruz)

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Challenger: W.D.R (Hovhannisyan)

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Champion: Bajingo (Mares)

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Challenger: Lufcrazy (Agbeko)

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Challenger: Tackleberry (McDonnell)

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Champion: Bajingo (Hall)

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Tackleberry!

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: 6-0 (2 Captures, 4 Defence)

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: 3-2 (2 Captures, 1 Defence)

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Awesome, awesome wright up dan!

 

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VS

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FIGHT PURSE -

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(how much winners will get for picking it right)

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BONUS (For getting a KO)


Vitali vs Adamek

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VITALI

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ADAMEK

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* DANS BREAKDOWN *
The biggest fight of the night, by far, is Vitali Klitschko vs Tomasz Adamek. Just to kick things off I really, really can't wait for this fight. I'm really pumped and ready for this fight. I'm expecting a superb fight between a highly skilled little man versus a strong, big, big man. Let's talk a little about both fighters. They both always come in shape and it will be really refreshing to see two heavyweights, both in shape, both ripped fighting. Not two blobs, or one somewhat in shape, nah, both of these fighters will be in tip top shape. Very very refreshing to see, and really it's back to back big Heavyweight fights that both fighters will be in shape. The last one, which wasn't that long ago, was Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye where both were in shape. So, let's go deep into both fighters, starting off with the challenger, Tomasz Adamek. Adamek, started off at 175 won a world title, and had two wars with Paul Briggs. Two underrated wars. Adamek's last fight at 175 was against Chad Dawson where he suffered his first and only loss. He moved up to Cruiserweight won a world title, and was dubbed as the top dog after his war with Steve Cunningham. A couple of fights after that he moved up to Heavyweight and beat fellow countryman in Andrew Golota, and had a tough fight with the very defensive Jason Estrada. A couple of months after that fight he took a big test when he took on Chris Arreola, but he passed with flying colors as he won a very entertaining fight. Then his next 3 fights have been against really tall fighters in Michael Grant, Vinny Maddalone, and Kevin McBride. With those 3 fights he has worked on sticking, moving, using speed, getting out of the way, moving his head, really working on his stamina. Now, all that hard work and all that preperation is on the line as he now faces the man (or the 2nd best fighter in the division) in the Heavyweight division, "Dr. Iron Fist" Vitali Klitschko. Klitschko is now 40 yers old and has shown some *****s in the armor. His most recent fight was against Odlanier Solis, in which a little right to the temple blew out Solis' knee after 1 round, but in that 1 round Solis landed a couple of nice right counters, a round in which he was winning. He has looked a bit slower, a little bit older, so coming into this fight, and styles wise I think Adamek has a great shot at not only staying on his feet for 12 rounds, but may'be even winning this fight. Style wise Vitali looks to be too slow on his feet so if Adamek can move and potshot he can definitely win the fight. Adamek has been working on doing this moving, doubling up the jab, left hook to the body, straight rights, and quickly moving, spinning, moving his head. With this game plan he can definitely easily beat Vitali Klitschko. Vitali though, will only be a couple of right hands from hurting and even dropping Adamek. While Adamek does have "cheen" Vitali is a big puncher and plus 30-40 pounds on him a right hand will do massive damage. All right, prediction time, Adamek will be boxing off his back foot moving, spinning, jabbing trying to keep Vitali off him. Vitali will be moving forward, hands down, flicking out that jab from his knee and firing off the right hand, throwing quite a few punches for a big man. So, I expect a really close fight...I'm not expecting a 10-0 shutout for Vitali before knocking him out like what everybody is expecting. I think this fight goes the distance and will be in the 7-5, 8-4 range for either fighter. Shocker, right? I know, but I'm fully expecting it to be that close. And for my pick, I'm going with Adamek to shock the world and win via SD. A close fight in his homeland of Poland I think the judges will give him the nod and the Heavyweight division will finally be complete with a complete total unification of all the belts.



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Tomasz Adamek : “I know how to beat Vitali Klitschko. I know that he’s a champion, but I’m convinced that Saturday night I will be three division champion. Trust me, it will happen. Every great story has to end. His great story as a champion will end on Saturday.”

“Eight years ago nobody give any chance to Corey Sanders when he knocked our Vitali’s brother, Wladimir. They gave him even less chances than they give me now. Nobody also gave any chance to Chris Byrd, but in the end he was the winner. Why the history should not be repeated? I have the utmost respect for Vitali, who came back at age 37 and become world champion. But every great story has an end, and his great story as a champion will end on Saturday. I will do everything to keep WBC in Poland.”



Vitali Klitschko : “I’m not over the hill. I know the dangers when you’re fighting too long. I have people I trust who will tell me right away that I should stop boxing. But there’s no danger for me when I will be fighting Tomasz Adamek on September 10. I’m in the top form, better than ever because I know exactly what I did wrong in my previous fights. Everything what I do now serves a purpose, every movement in the ring is calculated, nothing is wasted. You will see the proof of it Saturday night,”


“I kind of like you Tomek, maybe we can be friends after the fight, but on Saturday there will be no friendship between Adamek and Klitschko, because you want to take what’s mine – WBC belt, belt that was gracing the name of Muhammad Ali. It will not happen, I hope for a quick fight, I took him very seriously because I understand that every fight could be my lost one”


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The Gist
Where we weigh in with how we think the fight will play out. Open to anyone to voice how they think the fight goes down.

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I respect both of these warriors a ton, and expect nothing less then a good scrap come saturday night. I do think however, that as good as adamek is, and he is good... that hes simply too small for the type of fighter he is, and his attributes, to overcome vitali, even an aged one. I expect Adamek to make a real go of it though, and I think he will possibly win more rounds then anyone has since Lewis, with his movement and combination punching, but at the end of the day I simply think it wont be enough, while vitali I feel is ready for the taking, I simply dont think Adamek has the quality to do it... and I expect to see Vitali win a UD over the always game Adamek.
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Have to say though Dan you cought me off guard with your Adamek pick.... very nice :good

 

I was wanting to PM someone in the league about something but didnt want to go searching through the pages so I figured Id look through the 'who posted' and thought this was cool....

This is the post count for the year so far in the thread for everyone whos posted more then 10 times. That feature is cool.


Tackleberry 969
BigBone 620
Robney 518
DemolitionDan 428
lufcrazy 376
jordan1 260
J Griz 757 190
David B 179
Bajingo 154
Badlok 135
SportsLeader 128
kingalex 125
Kayo-Kid 122
psychopath 118
chatty 101
freddy-wak 100
FIGHTER2R 85
Boxed Ears 73
H . 66
MrOliverKlozoff 65
VARG 56
Pimp C 53
Axe 49
Mr Butt 43
BoppaZoo 41
jdr 40
WelshDevilRob 40
bezz 38
bolieu_mtl 38
Beenie 37
ishy 37
CLUBBER 34
Auracle21 33
KillerDeluxe 23
MET 21
motorboater13 18
RobsGhost 18
IntentionalButt 16
Grievesy 15
onetrueYIDDLE 15
SNV 14
doubleplaidinum 14
Boom_Boom 14

 

Mine was like 1800


At least I'm first in something i guess lol