Kirks Championships : Boxing Prediction League : 2018

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White - Featured Fights

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1/12 - Shohjahon Ergashev vs. Sonny Frederickson - 10x3
1/12 - Claressa Shields vs. Tori Nelson - 10x2 IBF & WBC World Super Middleweight Title

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1/20 - Cesar Miguel Barrionuevo vs. Adrian Luciano Veron II - 12x3 Argentina FAB Welterweight Title
1/20 - Franck Petitjean vs. Andrea Scarpa - 12x3 EBU-EU Super Lightweight Title
1/20 - Mohamed Mimoune vs. Emiliano Dominguez Rodriguez - 12x3 IBO World Super Lightweight Title
1/20 - Adam Kownacki vs. Iago Kiladze - 10x3
1/20 - Marcus Browne vs. Francy Ntetu - 10x3
1/20 - Robert Easter Jr. vs. Javier Fortuna - 12x3 IBF World Lightweight Title
1/20 - Errol Spence Jr. vs. Lamont Peterson - 12x3 IBF World Welterweight Title
1/27 - Martin Fidel Rios vs. Ezequiel Osvaldo Maderna II - 12x3 Argentina FAB Super Middleweight Title
1/27 - Emmanuel Tagoe vs. Fernando David Saucedo - 12x3 IBO World Lightweight Title
1/27 - Emanuele Blandamura vs. Kamil Szeremeta - 12x3 EBU European Middleweight Title
1/27 - Mairis Briedis vs. Oleksandr Usyk - 12x3 WBC & WBO World Cruiserweight Title
1/27 - Lucas Matthysse vs. Tewa Kiram - 12x3 WBA World Welterweight Title
1/27 - Jorge Linares vs. Mercito Gesta - 12x3 WBA World Lightweight Title

 

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2018 Lineage and Records​

Want to challenge the champion? Just look at the champion's upcoming fight picks. If you feel a pick by the champion will be wrong, post your pick, and announce that you want to challenge for the title!

Rules:
- First come first serve on challenges issued
- No stacking of challenges
- Can not challenge a fight more than 10 days away
- If champions change their pick after challenge has been set, they forfeit their title and it goes to the challenger who then becomes the interim champion, to fight for the vacant title against the next challenger
- Only 1 challenge per day, although a champion can have unlimited defenses per day
- Anyone who loses a title fight, must wait until 3 challenges occur before they can challenge again. If no one has challenged the champion,

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(even those who have lost/participated in the past 3 title fights) can challenge the day of the fight they are challenging (12AM est)
- The champion should try to place their picks as soon as they can, to give the field enough time to challenge their picks.

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His picks: Ergashev tko


Lineage

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Dec 22, 2017 - Jan 5
Defense #1: Occurred in 2017
Defense #2: Jan 5
Chudinov (Chuck Norris) vs Mock (

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) - Result: Mock UD

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Jan 5 - Present
Defense #1: Jan 6
Dogboe (

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) vs Juarez (PinoyProdigy) - Result: Dogboe TKO5
Defense #2: TBA


Records

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Chuck Norris 0-1
PinoyProdigy 0-1

Longest Title Reign

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Ergashev vs Frederickson is the first match-up this year that is making me scratch my head.

Erg hasn't fought anyone yet, but appears to have crazy legit power from the little I've seen of him. Frederickson has been in against better guys and has height and reach on Erg, but doesn't seem to have quite the same level of physical talent. But height, reach and pro experience can go a long way to overcome a talent defecit, which doesn't seem enormous by any means.

Ugh.

I have a feeling that no matter how I pick on this, it will come back to bite me in the ass.

Oh well. The undefeated streak was nice while it lasted.

 

The quadruple asterisk is the classic look for a kirk's thread, but a naked (or at least more lightly-garbed) title isn't without precedent.

It has been a running tradition every year since 2010, with the exception (for some reason) of 2015, which is the only time no asterisks were used. In the incipient and sophomore kirk's championship seasons, he used a different number of asterisks.

Also, I took advantage of the opportunity to cull the following data which I meant to do when kirk first made this one, but forgot:

Kirk's Championship Threads w/ total replies
(* denotes title winged by quadruple asterisks)

2008 3,051 (only three asterisks)
2009 3,728 (only two asterisks)
2010 5,254 *
2011 12,515 *
2012 11,644 *
2013 10,338 *
2014 2,755 *
2015 15,606
2016 10,494 *
2017 17,069 *

Very weird how it climbed in popularity - more than doubling after 2010! - only to absolutely nose dive in 2014 (wtf did you do to become so disliked so fast, kirk??? ). Complete and utter anomaly, because in 2015 it returned more popular than ever. Then a big dip, followed by another meteoric spike.

If you plotted that on a graph it would resemble the scrawling of a lab munky (that's a word filter? Are you serious?) fed nothing but espresso and Red Bull and the feces of its cage mates on the same diet.

 

2014 is also the only season that isn't on the front page of the General Forum if you sort threads by most-replied-to (aka top-30...meaning the other 9 kirk's threads make up nearly a third of the most replied to GF threads of all time)

It's third down on the second page, at #33.

 

Just letting the new guys gain their confidence and the other vets think we didn’t train over the break.

 

Ergashev KO, Shields UD

 

absolutely terible lol

 

shields ko, mundine sd, mckenzie ko, browne ko, easter jr ud, barrionuevo ko, spence jr ko, uysk ud

 

I don't think it's the best super hero film ever, but it's damn good. I'm too busy usually to dedicate so much time into watching films, especially when I miss the window of them being in the cinema. But last night I has a spare bit of time and it just came as available to download on my satellite box so I gave it a whirl.