****Kirks Championships 2017 ****

What a nightmare this year has been for me in the league, I've made some colossally idiotic decisions, some spot on and got robbed, and a few brilliant calls that paid off. But the ones that frustrate me are the matches I was almost right in. Regardless I've been off my game and I need to get my **** together in a big way, I have 7 months to claw my way back, and I have faith I can pull it off, although only minimal faith, I'm not crazy.

The fights that have bitten me in the ass the most are the matches that were riddled with unknown variables. Like Ramirez-Karl, I knew Karl would be outboxed by Ramirez, but I figured Karl was the name guy, and since Ramirez isn't all that heavy handed Karl would get the questionable decision, then there was the Adam Lopez-DAniel Roman match, there was no footage on Roman so it was basically a shot in the dark, because even though Lopez wasn't that great, he had the slightly better resume and was unbeaten, who knew Lopez and Karl were packing such glass, epic fail. Erik Ruiz was coming off of decent showings against Horacio Garcia and Hanzel Martinez and Ramos was coming off of being sparked out by Marrero, damn I figured it would at the very least be competitive, wrong again.

The ****ing Burns-Indongo match really did my head in, Indongo was such a mystery, no one knew just how good he really was and had the fight been remotely competitive Burns would have gotten the nod, but lo and behold, Indongo was far better than most of us knew, and he erased any shadow of a doubt and made it virtually impossible to rob him.

The ones that enrage me are the ridiculously hard to predict robberies, I knew in my heart that Rivera was too heavy handed and his southpaw stance would be an issue for Aik, and I thought certainly Aik wasn't worth a robbery, its not like he's a big name of anything, oh well, I was wrong in that respect yet right about the result. But I definitely thought that Zhanat would have to stop Warren to get a SD win, he's clearly a guy they want to push at PBC, even though I fully thought Zhanat would dominate him, I cynically picked against him because of fear of robbery. Nieves-Potapov, who knew a Russian fighter would get a gift over an American in America, my robbery judgment was off with that one, and who the hell thought the young more profitable prospect looking to bounce back from his first competitive loss would be robbed against an old past it shot fighter that has literally zero drawing power, poor Omar Douglas. For some reason unbeknownst to me and anyone else Michael Perez is a protected fighter, does he have pics of ODLH or something? Lopez deserved that decision. Who the hell would think they'd rob Redkach to hand a victory to Mendez after the crap year he's had, neither he nor Redkach are all that marketable, but I'm pretty sure Mendez couldn't draw flies to ****, Redkach on the other hand might bring in a Ukrainian or two. I hate it when the robberies occur in general, but damn its frustrating when they're illogical to boot.

And then there's last weekend, I had a gut feeling Tomogdan, Castellanos and Rojas could spring an upset, and really wanted to go with one or two of them, but I was gunshy after the Wlad match, and chose to play it safe with all of them because I was afraid the one I picked may blow up in my face and another upset I didn't pick would as well, I had no clue all three would end in an upset. And dammit why did I have faith that JCCJr would actually show up to win, the mother****er did a great job pretending like he was in the buildup, and all the talk of him being close to on weight evidently was a crock of ****. No more going with a longshot that is logic defying, it makes the longshots I go with that I actually put some thought into look less impressive.

Oh well s bad as this year has been, at least I had faith Berchelt, Thurman, Sor Rungvisai, Abduqaxorov, Wach and a few others could pull it off and it worked out well for me. Dammit Wlad why didn't you go for the KO when you had a chance.

Okay disorganized rambling rant over, from here on out, I'm focused and not taking any more risks that I don't genuinely think will pay off. (ie. the Gamal switch)