****Kirks Championships 2017 ****

Carlos Ocampo vs. Konstantin Ponomarev off according to Boxrec

 

@Chuck Norris Please make specific picks for WBK Series 13 fights...

No rush and all picks will be updated and posted regularly. Obviously the first pick between you and your opponent takes away certain options. Any other questions then please shout.

Scoring and rules have both been posted on Page 797 - just above this.

League picks will always take precedent and the picks can't differ, i.e KO for league and UD for WBK

Good luck...

WBK Series 13

Round 1: 9/8 - J'Leon Love vs. Abraham Han - 10x3

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Round 2: 9/8 - David Benavidez vs. Ronald Gavril - 12x3 WBC World Super Middleweight Title

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Round 3: 9/8 - Juan Carlos Reveco vs. Komgrich Nantapech - 12x3 IBF World Flyweight Title Eliminator

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Round 4: 9/9 - Kanat Islam vs. Brandon Cook - 12x3 WBO NABO & WBA Inter-Continental Super Welterweight Titles
Round 5: 9/9 - Kevin Lerena vs. Youri Kayembre Kalenga - 12x3 IBO Cruiserweight Title
Round 6: 9/9 - Noel Gevor vs. Isiah Thomas - TBD
Round 7: 9/9 - Oleksandr Usyk vs. Marco Huck - 12x3 WBO World Cruiserweight Title

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Round 8: 9/9 - Brian Viloria vs. Miguel Cartagena - 8x3
Round 9: 9/9 - Naoya Inoue vs. Antonio Nieves - 12x3 WBO World Super Flyweight Title
Round 10: 9/9 - Juan Francisco Estrada vs. Carlos Cuadras - 12x3
Round 11: 9/9 - Wisaksil Wangek vs. Roman Gonzalez II - 12x3 WBC World Super Flyweight Title
Round 12: 9/10 - Edward Heno vs. Seita Ogido II - 12x3 OPBF Light Flyweight Title

Reserve:

9/9 - McWilliams Arroyo vs. Hernan Marquez - 10x3
9/9 - Mike Gavronski vs. Brian Vera - 10x3



WBK Series 14

Round 1: 9/13 - Kosei Tanaka vs. Rangsan Chayanram - 12x3 WBO World Light Flyweight Title
Round 2: 9/13 - Yukinori Oguni vs. Ryosuke Iwasa - 12x3 IBF World Super Bantamweight Title
Round 3: 9/16 - John Riel Casimero vs. Jonas Sultan - 12x3 IBF World Super Flyweight Title Eliminator
Round 4: 9/16 - Milan Melindo vs. Hekkie Budler - 12x3 IBF World & IBO Light Flyweight Titles
Round 5: 9/16 - Billy Joe Saunders vs. Willie Monroe Jr. - 12x3 WBO World Middleweight Title
Round 6: 9/16 - Claudio Marrero vs. Jesus M Rojas - 12x3 Interim WBA World & IBO Featherweight Titles
Round 7: 9/16 - Gennady Golovkin vs. Saul Alvarez - 12x3 IBF World, WBA Super World, WBC World, and IBO Middleweight Titles
Round 8: 9/22 - Gilberto Ramirez vs. Jesse Hart - 12x3 WBO World Super Middleweight Title
Round 9: 9/22 - Oscar Valdez vs. Genesis Servania - 12x3 WBO World Featherweight Title
Round 10: 9/23 - Joseph Parker vs. Hughie Fury - 12x3 WBO World Heavyweight Title
Round 11: 9/23 - Yunier Dorticos vs. Dmitry Kudryashov - 12x3 WBA World Cruiserweight Title
Round 12: 9/23 - Jorge Linares vs. Luke Campbell - 12x3 WBA World Lightweight Title

Reserve:

9/16 - Callum Smith vs. Erik Skoglund - 12x3
9/16 - Diego De La Hoya vs. Randy Caballero - 12x3
9/16 - Joseph Diaz vs. Jorge Lara - 12x3

 

Ponomerev UD Margarito UD Kubo TKO

 

So basically, from all these selected fights i gotta choose a specific pick. Okay i got, i see that you are my opponent.

 

That's right. I expect a vicious 1st Round KO from Mr.Norris

 

You think wisely

 

Boy I can't wait for the GGG/Canelo fight.
GGG by TKO round 10

 

Please change my pick Ocampo UD to Ponomarev UD.

My new pick is Ponomarev UD.

Thanks.

 

Fight will most likely be moved to a different date, possibly 10/31.

 

On the Magdaleno vs Juarez card?

 

I would assume so, since it is a Top Rank card. This is the tweet from Top Rank matchmaker Bruce Trampler

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Cool what was your pick?

 

This is why records shouldn't be the main focus of the rankings @nellybc. That's the man that just knocked you the **** out which rightfully made you last in the rankings. Then you beat the #6 ranked fighter out of 7 and then you suddenly get ranked #1 which makes no sense haha. I don't care if you win the championship or not, if you do, congrats. I just want the WBK to be as fair as possible and that leap in the rankings made no sense whatsoever.

 

Hi @nellybc, @PinoyProdigy, and all others involved in the WBK, I have a suggestion to resolve the issue of WBK rankings and title challenges.

My proposal is:

1. ELO ratings of each participant will be maintained by myself from past results, updating after every round. This seems the fairest way to consider the ranking of the opponent, and weight more recent results heavily without forgetting about past resume. I realize the alphabet orgs don't do anything of the sort but they make a right mess of their and I don't see why we shouldn't do something better / fairer for ourselves.

2. The WBK continues with the pairings proposed by @nellybc for the next round only. I am the biggest "loser" out of that compared to Pinoy's proposed fixtures, so I consider myself qualified to make this suggestion.

3. Future pairings are done as follows:

Champion vs highest ranked contender (i.e. excl. the champion)
#2 vs #3 ranked contenders
etc.

The only exception will be that in the rare case of the system ordering an immediate rematch, the pairings will be manipulated to avoid this while remaining as close to the system pattern as possible.

Since future pairings will be made by the ELO system, the #2 vs #3 match in @nellybc's pairings may not determine the next title contender - that will depend on ELO. Obviously the champion will still be determined by lineage just as before -no change there.

4. Rule change proposal: A prediction of SD (result MD, opponent pick not MD) becomes a 10-8 KD round instead of 10-9; likewise a prediction of MD (result SD, opponent pick not SD) becomes a 10-8 KD round. Given that the exact match is a instant KO this is fairer I think. I also think we had it this way at the start of the year - it's not explicit in the current rules.

Please read and consider, thanks!

If you think it is, in theory, a good idea, please also consider whether KO/TKO losses should be weighted more than points wins.

Finally, any proposal may be vetoed by @nellybc. This is merely a suggestion, however I am keen to hear input from:

@Dfaulds @Chuck Norris @BoxingABC1 @moparfan @Matt Petley

 

I hadn't committed yet, but a young undefeated Mexican prospect fighting on a Zanfer card in Mexico made me lean towards an Ocampo decision, where the judges would favor Ocampo's volume and pressure over Ponomarev's cleaner but less consistent workrate.