**** Kirk's Championships 2010 ****

Dunno about Adamek as a HW anymore :verysad

 

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CEDA KO
MAIDANA TKO
CALDERON UD
SENCHENKO TKO

 

Me too i think any top level fighter beats him Wlad/Vitali/Haye all 3 are huge punchers and Adamek was rocked pretty bad by Grant in round 6, i think any of them take him out, If he fights a Klit i'll be rooting for him though

 

Lets keep in mind 2 things here.

1 being that any fighter in any weight class can have a good, mediocre or bad performance. The past 3 weekends has proved that over and over again. First we saw Alexander in probably the worst fight of his career. Then following weekend we saw a Chad Dawson who also didn't really show up at the fight, not before it was too late anyway (No discredit to Pascal though). And we saw a K9 Bundrage who looked to be 27 instead of 37. So really any fighter can have a good or bad day. And one shouldn't lose confidence in him because of 1 fight.

Secondly we must remember that Adamek isnt really a natural heavyweight, or at most a small heavyweight much like Haye. But as long as he has his heart in the game, trains well, and he himself is adamant in showing that he is a force in the division, I wont count him out against ANY heavyweight. Infact i'd favor him against every single heavyweight condender in the division (Povetkin, Chambers, Dimitrenko, Johnson, Sosnowski, etc), and I believe he'd produce a good fight against all 3 champs.

 

Either Klitschko sends him out before the final bell, but he can probably compete with the rest of them.

 

Cesar Seda vs Jose Lopez- Cesar Seda by UD
Marcos Rene Maidana vs Demarcus Corley- Marcos Maidana by KO
Ivan Calderon vs Giovanni Segura- Ivan Calderon by UD
Viacheslav Senchenko vs Charlie Jose Navarro- Viacheslav Senchenko by UD

Ok, first let's start off with the Senchenko-Navarro fight because this one is pretty much an easy pick. Senchenko should win and probably will win, probably by UD....may'be he'll get a late stoppage....may'be, but I'll go with Senchenko by UD.

Now, let's get to the big fights this weekend. Seda is a very good fighter and this is a good step up fight for him....I'm not sure what to classify Seda as a prospect or a contender, because Seda has won the 112 IBO title vs Omar Soto...anyway this is a nice step up fight for Seda....you know what I'll classify Seda as a prospect. Anyway, Seda is a very good fighter and Lopez is a great step up fight for him, this is a nice stepping stone fight to see where Seda is currently at. I've got Seda by UD, and if he wins by UD that will be very good, but if he manages to stope Lopez that is very very impressive because Jose Lopez is a very tough vet and he has never been stopped in his career.

Now, let's go to Maidana-Corley fight. This fight is really interesting. We all know what Madiana brings to the table, but Corley is very interesting. In his 13 losses he has only been stopped 3 times, and when you look at his resume he's been stopped by fighter he shouldn't have been stopped by and he has went the distance to fighters you wouldn't think that he would last the distance with. He has gone the distance with Judah, Witter, Alexander, and the KO King Randall Bailey. So, he is a very interesting fighter...oh yea and he went all 8 with the KO King and Alexander in 2008 so he's not like he was fresh or anything like that. He also was starched by Freddy Hernandez earlier this year in a very underrated fight, and underrated KO from this year. Then we go with Maidana who we all know. He comes in your grill and KO's you. Maidana isn't hard to figure out which is why Corley may give Maidana some fits in there early on because Kotelnik went the distance with Maidana and beat him, also just recently Cayo was giving Maidana a boxing lesson, but he fought a dumb fight and he never puts his hands up and he got KO'd. If Cayo fought smartly he would have beaten Maidana. Maidana isn't hard to figure out, and if this was Corley that was fresher I would really fancy his chances, but he isn't so I think Corley has success early, like he had with Freddy Hernandez, but I think he's gone late.

Now, for the fight of the night Ivan Calderon vs Giovanni Segura. How can you not get excited for this fight?! P.R. vs Mexico, Boxer vs Slugger, finesse vs power, angles vs straight forward awkwardness, undefeated vs pretty much undefeated (I'll explain later) ok you get it this is a hell of a fight with two great fighters! This is a barnburner and this is about the hardest-easiest fight to pick. It's hard taking what fighter to take, but it's easy to how they will win. Calderon will win by decision or Segura will win by KO. Calderon has been showing his age of late, and this fight does resemble a lot of when Calderon fought Hugo Fidel Cazares. Cazares was big and awkward and he did give Ivan a tough time. While, Segur is so awkward and throws so many wild wide hook that Calderon could easily duck and pot shot Segura with ease and make him look goofy, but on the other hand Segura's pressure and awkwardness could give Calderon fits and may'be catches Calderon with one punch and boom, that's it. This is a tough pick, a 50/50 fight, and I have been going back and forth with it, and I think I'm going to go with Calderon.

 

I'm not sure what I agree with that. Had Nipples not broken his hands, we wouldn't be discussing Adamek's "poor performance"...he'd be the guy that realized VERY EARLY that he's too small for this division.

 

We all will...but like I said earlier...Arreola would've finished him had he NOT broken his hands.

 

Nice write-up's! :good

 

Ceda TKO
Maidana TKO
Calderon UD
Senchenko UD