**** Kirks Championships 2013 ****

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6/1 - Hernan Marquez vs. Carlos Tamara - 12x3 (Azteca)
6/7 - Andrey Klimov vs. John Molina - 10x3 (ESPN2)
6/8 - Marco Huck vs. Ola Afolabi III - 12x3 WBO Cruiserweight Title (Germany ARD)
6/8 - Mouhamed Ali Ndiaye vs. Christopher Rebrasse - 12x3 EBU Super Middleweight Title
6/8 - Michele Di Rocco vs. Lenny Daws - 12x3 EBU Light Welterweight Title
6/8 - Yoshihiro Kamegai vs. Johan Perez - 10x3 (Showtime)
6/8 - Jermell Charlo vs. Demetrius Hopkins - 12x3 USBA Light Middleweight Title (Showtime)
6/8 - Erislandy Lara vs. Alfredo Angulo - 12x3 (Showtime)
6/8 - Marcos Rene Maidana vs. Josesito Lopez - 12x3 WBA Inter-Continental Welterweight Title (Showtime)
6/8 - Eleider Alvarez vs. Allen Green - 10x3 (HBO)
6/8 - Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Darley Perez - 12x3 (HBO)
6/8 - Chad Dawson vs. Adonis Stevenson - 12x3 WBC Light Heavyweight Title (HBO)
6/8 - Juan Carlos Sanchez Jr vs. Roberto Domingo Sosa - 12x3 IBF Super Flyweight Title (UniMas)
6/10 - Shingo Wake vs. Eita Kikuchi - 12x3 OPBF Super Bantamweight Title
6/10 - Hiroki Shiino vs. Dennis Tubieron II - 12x3 OPBF Bantamweight Title
6/14 - Arash Usmanee vs. Art Hovhannisyan - 10x3 (ESPN2)
6/14 - Luis Ortiz vs. Travis Kauffman - 10x3 (ESPN2)
6/14 - Sergey Kovalev vs. Cornelius White - 12x3 (NBC Sports Network)
6/15 - Frankie Gavin vs. Denton Vassell - 12x3 BBBofC & Commonwealth Welterweight Titles
6/15 - Dereck Chisora vs. Deontay Wilder - 10x3
6/15 - Gideon Buthelezi vs. Edrin Dapudong II - 12x3 IBO Super Flyweight Title
6/15 - Hekkie Budler vs. Nkosinathi Joyi - 12x3 IBO Minimumweight Title
6/15 - Terence Crawford vs. Alejandro Sanabria - 10x3 (HBO)
6/15 - Mikey Garia vs. Juan Manuel Lopez - 12x3 WBO Featherweight Title (HBO)
6/21 - Krzysztof Wlodarczyk vs. Rakhim Chakhkiev - 12x3 WBC Cruiserweight Title
6/21 - Caleb Traux vs. Don George - 10x3 (ESPN2)
6/21 - Rances Barthelemy vs. Fahsai Sakkreerin - 12x3 IBF Super Featherweight Title Eliminator (ESPN2)
6/22 - Sakio Bika vs. Marco Antonio Periban - 12x3 WBC Super Middleweight Title (HBO)
6/22 - Johnathon Banks vs. Seth Mitchell II - 12x3 (HBO)
6/22 - Paul Malignaggi vs. Adrien Broner - 12x3 WBA World Welterweight Title (HBO)
6/28 - Xiong Zhao Zhong vs. Denver Cuello - 12x3 WBC Minimumweight Title
6/28 - Grzegorz Proksa vs. Sergio Mora - 10x3 (ESPN2)
6/29 - Gavin Rees vs. Anthony Crolla - (SKY)
6/29 - Thomas Oosthuizen vs. Brandon Gonzales - 12x3 IBO Super Middleweight Title (HBO)
6/29 - Gennady Golovkin vs. Matthew Macklin - 12x3 IBO & WBA World Middleweight Titles (HBO)

 

I wish WBK title fights lasted only 1 week-end.

 

Possible in weeks with 12 fights

 

2 fights this week-end.

Those 12 fights next weekend is a rare view, like twice maximum 3 times a year.
Most WBK title fights are 2 weekends long if not 3. :bart
I think it would have been so much better if every week we had a new fight.

 

It's possible when there's a early KO.

 

I guess so. It's also sad if you waste lots of rounds, in case you can't find an opponent in minutes and there are like 7 fights left that night. :think

 

You made me think about... How would I determine a WBK mandatory if the fight ends in 1 round KO?

 

I think you just have to go for the guy that ended 2nd in the rankings before the bout took place.

 

D:

I was actually getting more pumped myself while breaking it down.


I'll probably wind up picking Oosthuizen by close decision, maybe split or majority. I don't think he will need to worry about fairness being abroad in the USA. They're going to be @ Foxwoods, and Gonzáles is a West coast dude. In fact, so far his entire career has been fought on that side of the Rockies except for the one night in Atlantic City, the "close shave" against Duran. Besides, the event is promoted by Lou DiBella (did I mention this is the co-feature to Golovkin vs. Macklin??!) and Ootshuizen is the one signed to DBE. Gonzáles joined with Dan Goossen two years ago, which is still kind of small potatoes relative to DiBella or the larger players but was a huge step up from before. He was managed & promoted by Tommy Lane - son of referee Mills Lane - of "Let's Get It On" Promotions, a tiny operation based in Nevada. Like I said, he didn't have the handling to match his talent coming up. So on top of size, reach, style, and experience - Oosthuizen has the more big league backer.

However...there are some things giving me pause in thinking it'll be a cake walk for Tommy. I have to imagine a guy like Virgil Hunter is going to have extensively brushed up on Oosthuizen, watching tape and familiarizing himself to help cook up a workable strategy for Gonzáles to deal with all the challenges involved. This is his other prize unbeaten super middleweight pupil, after all. (his "plan B" in case that Andre Ward kid doesn't work out ) He also has the benefit of Goossen having stepped up Gonzáles' quality of competition, if not rate of activity, since taking over the reins two years ago. All three of his dates arranged by Goossen have included TV exposure - Duran on ShoBox, Augustama and Mouton on FNF - and provided him with a combined 24 rounds of valuable learning experience against non-bums. A trainer of Hunter's class ought to be able to bring a lot away from those experiences to use in the war room. Another slightly more irrational concern is the still-fresh memory of DiBella recently bringing another undefeated foreigner over here promising to propel them onto the big stage only to have it completely backfire. I'm not putting on a tinfoil hat and saying he sold Erdei out to Grachev or anything like that - but that scoring was ridiculous. :yep Lastly, Gonzáles does have real pop and can punch sharply enough to make the most of it. Yes, his stoppage rate is low but lots of his opponents under both Lane and Goossen have just happened to be double hard *******s who don't simply lie down. I think Oosthuizen's chin is fine, but Gonzáles might reveal cracks in a layer we haven't yet seen. Nobody has tested it thoroughly. Chilemba can box quite nicely and land with high accuracy but doesn't possess thunder in his fists. Sierra and Zuniga can whack - but their skills leave much to be desired and they couldn't get past Oosthuizen's five-mile jab and defense. Bryant, Pryor and even Johnson despite the premature hype bestowed upon him were all too average to be serious threats. Gonzáles might be the guy who can time a real peach to exploit the drawbacks of having such gangly limbs (Red Squadron Luke Skywalker style)...and it's an old truism, the bigger they are... :think

Tommy does have a giraffe neck, like Jason Litzau...

 

I was so hyped for Edwin Rodriguez vs Ezequeil Maderna... but this prospect fights let you down big sometimes.

 

Very true. Sage advice.

That was supposed to be a war, and was anything but.

However, I really do think Oosthuizen vs. Gonzáles should be aesthetically pleasing based on their attributes, styles, and temperaments.

Watching the clips above, don't you agree?

If we had been paying stricter attention the writing had been on the wall even a year or two earlier with La Bomba Rodriguez anyway. He was transforming himself gradually into more of a boxer, getting away from the slugging. As for Maderna, who shared equal fault in what a stinker they put on, I don't know what his excuse was. He is usually more exciting. :conf

Unlike that one, I'm not expecting Oosthuizen vs. Gonzáles to be a slug fest but rather a nice tactical game of violent chess. Will Oosthuizen keep Gonzáles hanging out to dry on the clothesline, pummeling him with long straight punches and/or punishing body combos he can't avoid? Will Gonzáles be able to get close and check his chin with a pinpoint right hand? To me it's a lot more intriguing than Rodriguez vs. Maderna was, since that was only supposed to be Rock'em Sock'em Robots (and disappointed, badly :twisted: it was more like R2D2 and C3P0 having a gay little tiff)