Kirks Championships : Boxing Prediction League : 2018

Its pretty simple, Lance Armstrong who was riding in an era of dopers, and was trying to even the playing the field in his mind, has been slaughtered on the alter of public opinion as a redemptive blood sacrifice for the sport, and hung and burned in effigy repeatedly by the media. Yet now we have his heir apparent from the UK in Chris Froome, who's been cheating for the last 7 or 8 years, winning grand tour after grand tour, in the most incredulous way imaginable, in some cases far more impressively than Armstrong ever did, Froome even managed to test positive last year after winning the 3 week grand tour the Vuelta A Espana. Yet this mother****er gets pass after pass, and like Canelo, Povetkin and every other doper in the sport of boxing, he has an army of apologists who play dumb and vociferously defend him because the idea of the greatest Brit cyclist in history being yet another facade is too much for them to bear. And the UCI and sport of cycling choose to look the other way, because Froome is backed by millions of dollars from Sky, and is the new face of the sport and they don't want to have another Armstrong like fallout to have to deal with. But the bottom will fall out eventually, the walls have been closing in on Froome, his Machiavellian general manager of Team Sky Sir Dave Brailsford, former teammate Bradley Wiggins and co. after the floodgates started opening last year about their various suspicious using and abusing of TUE's.

 

Sadly at this point, most of them ARE clean, that's the part left out of that post. Lance rode in an era of dirty cyclists, it was an open secret, he was trying to even the playing field. Froome is riding in a stringently tested sport, where guys almost never test positive, and ride like human beings, not gods, its literally reflected in their performances, they have good days and bad days, yet Froome is head and shoulders above the rest and rides like an Armstrongesque beast in his prime, and has pulled off some incredibly unbelievable feats. Like the one he pulled off Friday, which was ridiculous, he attacked with 80 kilometers to go on his own, and climb 3 massive Alpine mountains and beat the leader who cracked badly, and conveniently got back just the amount of time he needed on the second placed rider, just enough to win the whole race overall. And this was after he was coming off of his first doping positive, and this race reflected that, since he's looked like absolute **** for the first 17 days of the race, ye when he needed a miracle, I'll be damned he got one.

The ride was a carbon copy of what the American cyclist Floyd Landis pulled back about 12 years ago in the Tour de France, that he tested positive for afterward, but Froome has a shitload of money protecting him, so that probably won't happen this time.

 

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6/2 - Kevin Lerena vs. Roman Golovashchenko - 12x3 IBO Cruiserweight Title

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6/2 - Robin Krasniqi vs. Stanislav Kashtanov - 12x3 EBU Super Middleweight Title
6/2 - Elias Damian Araujo vs. Javier Jose Clavero II - 10x3 Argentina (FAB) & Interim WBC Latino Lightweight Titles
6/6 - Luke Watkins vs. Lawrence Okolie - 12x3 WBA Continental & Commonwealth Cruiserweight Titles
6/9 - Dominic Boesel vs. Enrico Koelling - 12x3 EBU Light Heavyweight Title
6/9 - Nathan Gorman vs. Sean Turner - 10x3
6/9 - Tyson Fury vs. Sefer Seferi - 10x3
6/9 - Terry Flanagan vs. Maurice Hooker - 12x3 WBO World Super Lightweight Title
6/9 - Adrian Granados vs. Javier Fortuna - 10x3
6/9 - Jermell Charlo vs. Austin Trout - 12x3 WBC World Super Welterweight Title
6/9 - Leo Santa Cruz vs. Abner Mares II - 12x3 WBA Super World Featherweight Title
6/9 - Maxim Dadashev vs. Darleys Perez - 10x3 USBA & NABF Super Lightweight Titles
6/9 - Jeff Horn vs. Terence Crawford - 12x3 WBO World Welterweight Title
6/10 - Antonio Tarver vs. Travis Kauffman - 10x3

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6/14 - Edgar Valerio vs. Manny Robles Jr. - 10x3
6/14 - Mercito Gesta vs. Robert Manzanarez - 10x3
6/16 - Gavin McDonnell vs. Stuart Hall - 12x3 WBC International Super Bantamweight Title
6/16 - Josh Kelly vs. Kris George - 12x3 WBA International & Commonwealth Welterweight Titles
6/16 - Lewis Ritson vs. Paul Hyland Jnr - 12x3 BBBofC British Lightweight Title
6/16 - Simon Kean vs. Adam Braidwood - 10x3 IBO Inter-Continental & WBC Francophone Heavyweight Titles
6/16 - Angel Acosta vs. Carlos Buitrago - 12x3 WBO World Light Flyweight Title
6/16 - Devon Alexander vs. Andre Berto - 12x3
6/16 - Errol Spence Jr. vs. Carlos Ocampo - 12x3 IBF World Welterweight Title
6/17 - Artem Dalakian vs. Sirichai Thaiyen - 12x3 WBA World Flyweight Title

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6/22 - Claressa Shields vs. Hanna Gabriels - 10x2 IBF World & WBA World Female Middleweight Titles

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6/23 - DeeJay Kriel vs. Toto Landero - 12x3 WBC International Minimumweight Title
6/23 - Thulani Mbenge vs. Diego Gabriel Chaves - 12x3 IBO Welterweight Title
6/23 - Nordine Oubaali vs. Tassana Sanpattan - 12x3 WBC World Bantamweight Title
6/23 - Darryll Williams vs. Lennox Clarke - 10x3 BBBofC British Super Middleweight Title
6/23 - Ohara Davies vs. Josh Leather - 10x3
6/23 - Billy Joe Saunders vs. Martin Murray - 12x3 WBO World Middleweight Title
6/23 - Josh Taylor vs. Viktor Postol - 12x3 WBC World Super Lightweight Title Eliminator
6/23 - Steven Butler vs. Carson Jones - TBD
6/23 - Miguel Berchelt vs. Jonathan Victor Barros - 12x3 WBC World Super Featherweight Title
6/30 - Tyrone McKenna vs. Philip Sutcliffe Jnr - 10x3
6/30 - Gary Corcoran vs. Paddy Gallagher - 10x3
6/30 - Jono Carroll vs. Declan Geraghty II - 12x3 IBF Inter-Continental Super Featherweight Title
6/30 - Alex Saucedo vs. Leonardo Zappavigna - 10x3
6/30 - Gilberto Ramirez vs. Roamer Alexis Angulo - 12x3 WBO World Super Middleweight Title

 

Yeah I witnessed the insanely fast transformation of Wiggins over he course of a year, and found it flabbergasting how blatantly they went about it. I considered myself a fan of Wiggins, he was an excellent time trialist but never showed any acuity in climbing, which isn't something most cyclists can just acquire overnight. Then out of nowhere in 2009 he was right up there hanging with Armstrong, Contador and the Schleck brothers, which I didn't buy for a second, Lance probably could have won that race, but had to hang back and not attack, because he was afraid he'd drag Wiggins up to his teammate Contador, which is a no no in cycling. Wiggins still went in 09 from finishing in the 30's 40's and 50's to finishing in 4th place. Which just doesn't happen. Then he had a bad year in 10, after joining Sky, but in 2011 they nipped that in the bud, that was his breakout year, IIRC he crashed out of the Tour, but came back and came within a hair of winning the Vuelkta, aided by Froome, who went from being a nobody on Team Barloworld that was finishing out of the Top 100 and in the 79's and 80's to coming in 3rd in a grand tour. Its all such unmitigated bull****.ince the Vuelta in 2011, Wiggins went on to win the Tour in 2012, and Froome has been winning everything he takes part in ever since.

Petacchi a brilliant sprinter had an asthma problem, got banned and stripped of his record setting wins in that Giro, Contador had an asthma problem, got banned, and stripped of his Grand Tour wins, Froome has asthma problems, doesn't get banned, is allowed to continue racing while under investigation and will get off scot free the double standard is ****ing maddening.

 

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