I looked at France but could only come up with Andre Lenglet, Georges Carpentier (he did fight for the title) and Rodriguez. I also looked at Puerto Rico and came up with Fres Oquendo, Joe Roman, Pedro Agosto and Ossie Ocasio and couldn't come up with a 5th. Hard to get that 16th team.
Bingo, I think Austria should be our 16th country. Weinert Risko Root(Austrian born at the time, now in the Czeck republic) Lazek Weiden
Alphabetically we have the following; Argentina Australia Austria Canada Cuba England Germany Ireland Italy Jamaica NewZealand Nigeria Russia South Africa Ukraine Wales. Matching the first with the last and so on, we get the draw below. Argentina v Wales Australia V Ukraine Austria v South Africa Canada v Russia Cuba v Nigeria England V New Zealand Germany v Jamaica. I propose we rate the fighters 1 to 5 and box of, based on resumee, in reverse, for example the first match-ups are Argentina V Wales as follows. This content is protected . Please offer you picks on the above.
Back to the first match up; Picks in green; This content is protected [/COLOR]a[/COLOR] v Williams [COLOR="rgb(0, 100, 0)"[COLOR="Lime"]]Firpo[/COLOR][/COLOR] v Richardson This content is protected v Petersen This content is protected v Erskine Corletti v This content is protected 4-1 to the Argies. Australia v Ukraine. This content is protected v Platov This content is protected v Glazkov This content is protected v Vyrchyr Lang v This content is protected i Bell v This content is protected 3-2 to the Aussies but Goddard and Slavin can be argued? Damned if I know whats going on with the color paste but you get the message.
Any bites from anyone? Austria v South Africa This content is protected v Foord This content is protected v Coetzer This content is protected v Knoetzee Lazek v This content is protected Weiden v This content is protected
I would agree with your Australia-Ukraine picks. On the Argie-Welsh competition I would go with Bonavena, Firpo, Petersen, Erskine, Farr for a 3-2 win for Wales. And for the Austria-SA matchup I would go with Risko, Coetzer, Knoetzee, Sanders, Coetzee for a 4-1 SA win.
I thought long and hard on Weinert-Knoetzee but wins over Sharkey and Firpo, plus a longer career, surely top a Bobick blow-out? Root beat Hart, McCoy and Gardner and lost very little while Coetzer lost every time he stepped up. H2h I'd go with your selections, maybe but on achievement? I also strongly favour Peralta over Petersen on resumee but Jack was a good boxer, H2H it could be close.
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Matt, I agree with your Italy-Ireland, I only disagree with Solis-Bygraves on your Cuba-Jamaica fracas, but on Canada-Russia I'm a bit lost I'm embarrassed to say. Who is Ferguson?
Dont be embarrassed, maybe I'm sad! It's Sandy Ferguson, 1900's heavyweight and probably the best of the white fighters after Jeff but an out an out alcholic.
It is interesting that this bout comes down to Gomez vs Mason. I think that Gomez might rise to the occassion on this one and beat Mason. Should we call for a deciding vote?