WSB (World Series of Boxing) - Season 3 ***Champions: Kazakhstan Astana Arlans***

Nope, 11am EST. Most of the year round we're five hours apart but where you've not yet begun Summer Time and we're already on Daylight Savings for most of March it's only a four hour difference.

Last?? :fire I could've gone to class!!

 

Sweet. Lil' Butt just went down for his nap, so this should work out swimmingly if Lomachenko vs. Selimov is starting in the next hour or so as expected.

 

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:bananamaniac

 

:yep It's brunch time over here.

Did you stay up last night to see the Guerreros vs. Lionhearts 2nd leg?

 

:rofl No, silly goose.

In twenty minutes and twenty-nine seconds.

It's a countdown.

 

Ah well do you know the results? I won't repeat them, but stay away from the previous few pages if you don't want them spoiled.

 

The lineups:

Magomed Kurbanov vs. Alexandr Riscan, bantamweights (50-54kg)

Mikalai Vesialou vs. Olexandr Strets'kyy, middleweights (68-73kg)

Ramazan Magomedau vs. Sergiy Lapin, light heavyweights (80-85kg)

Abdulkadir Abdullayev vs. Dmytro Rudenkyi, heavyweights (91+kg)

Albert Selimov vs. Vasyl Lomachenko, lightweights (57-61kg)

SUDDEN DEATH TIEBREAKER - if needed:

Jaba Khositashvili vs. Ievgenii Barabanov, middleweights (68-73kg)

 

Yeah, I won't say it was a complete shock as I'd been fairly impressed with the Guerreros and thought some of those match-ups favored them...but the comprehensive nature of the sweep really was unexpected.

Two shutouts, and Bisbal and Muñoz were very clear victors. The only one you could argue was Cabrera vs. Arro but it was no home cooked tamale. (and you would really have to push the limits of scoring based on raw aggression in order to see it for the Estonian)

Despite being seeded higher I think a lot of people saw Mexico as the underdogs there, just stepping stones for GB.

 

The WSB page, same as usual.

Whoever is doing their data entry might have made a mistake. :conf

How I copied them is the exact order they currently have listed.

 

They are parading the teams out for posing and waving.

 

Anthems.