Humble yourself time : What fights have you predicted, and got badly wrong?

I thought Cotto was maybe going to be too big and strong for Pacquiao.
I thought Pacquiao was going to blow Marquez away in the third bout via stoppage.
I thought Garcia was one paced and Khan would beat him widely.
I thought Bruno was going to beat Tyson (wasn't a fan of the sport...yet).

I thought Prince Naseem Hamed was unbeatable, and no matter how much trouble he got in to in the ring, he would always find a way to knock his opponent out. True story. I was young and not a hardcore fan of the sport though, only a hardcore fan of The Prince.

 

well I got that Kirkland vs Angulo one very wrong.

 

Oh, yeah i thought Abraham would demolish Froch and i even thought he might win the S6

 

Quartey-Vargas - I thought this was going to be the renaissance of Ike and the exposing of Vargas. Oh well....

Groves-Degale - I told everyone to bet the house on Degale. Thank **** I didn't...

Kessler-Ward - Completely underestimated SOG based on the Boone fight

Honeyghan-Starling - My ego was as bruised as Honey's jaw after that battering

Holyfield-Bowe (all of them) - Around the time I concluded that I sucked at predictions

 

Pavlik-Hopkins
Calzaghe-Lacy
Froch-Bute
Burns-Martinez/Katsidis/Mitchell

 

Same here, openly claimed he would too

 

Second that. I thought he would win easy and it was a bs fight for an easy belt :rofl

 

Bute-Froch, Dawson-Hopkins are the ones that come to mind. I overestimated Bute's ring generalship, overestimated Hopkins' vitality, and underestimated Dawson's mental discipline a bit. Also thought Angulo-Kirkland would go the other way.

 

It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I thought Winky did alright. Didn't he win maybe 4 rounds? I know he had the edge on the Compubox stats too, so he was definitely in it but it's just a shame he was in such awful condition.

Just out of interest, what was your scorecard, if you have one?

 

Trinidad over Hopkins at the time I brought into the hype .



Holyfield over Tyson ..I thought Tyson would have steam rolled through him ..Again brought into the hype ..

 

Bute KO8 Froch

Wladimir KO 5 Sanders

Yeah.....I was pretty far off on those picks.

 

Morales vs pac 2
Dlh vs pac
Cotto vs pac
Jmm3 vs pac(jmm won imo)

 

I made Haye my slight favourite against Wladamir :roll:

I thought Strum would beat Geale. I know it was close and I had it a draw but thought Strum would have done enough for the win

I'm relatively new to following boxing more seriously so haven't had enough time to make too many picks, give me a year or two I'll surely have more to add to the list!

 

Hatton vs Pac.

The whole time leading up to the fight I thought Ricky had a great chance (didn't favour him). But thought he would at least make it close. Then all the **** about his terrible training camp, weight problems and rift with Snr came out the night before the fight and I knew he was ****ed. Still never thought he'd get blown out so fast though.

Most recently:

Molitor vs Frampton

Had only watched like a round or two of Frampton and hadn't watched Molitor's previous fight (a bull**** SD he should have lost to a club fighter). Boldly predicted that Molitor was going to be a step to far for Frampton. Predicted that cause he was the home fighter Frampton would win a blatant robbery/bull**** SD/MD. Decided to watch Molitor's most recent fight against _______ (club fihgter guy) the morning of the fight, realized he was shot to **** and new I'd be eating some serious crow by the end of the day. Molitor got destroyed and I got mine too

 

Bute - Froch.

- And that fight really taught me a lesson, about just how good a fighter can look when he hasn't faced top opponents.