**** Kirk's Championship Boxing Prediction League 2016 ****

69ing:tong

 

Not that, but..... my sister walked in on me jerking off to Michelle Johnson and Demi Moore in Blame it on Rio.

I still cringe every time I recall it. I tried to explain it away as I was checking for an ant bite.:rofl

 

Top 50 List Of Brutally Overrated "Great" Movies That I Can't Stand.
1. Citizen Kane
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. 2001 A Space Odyssey
4. Fight Club
5. The Dark Knight
6. Slumdog Millionaire
7. The Hurt Locker
8. The Matrix
9. Gladiator
10. Traffic
11. 12 Years A Slave
12. Touch Of Evil
13. The Usual Suspects
14. 12 Monkeys
15. The King's Speech
16. Oldboy
17. The Silence Of The Lambs
18. Argo
19. The Maltese Falcon
20. The Third Man
21. V For Vendetta
22. The Bridge On The River Kwai
23. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
24. Seven
25. Crash
26. Inception
27. Pan's Labyrinth
28. The Avengers
29. The Sixth Sense
30. No Country For Old Men
31. The Revenant
32. The Bourne Identity
33. Apollo 13
34. L.A. Confidential
35. There Will Be Blood
36. Brokeback Mountain
37. French Connection
38. Munich
39. The Sting
40. The Last Emperor
41. Glory
42. Dead Poets Society
43. In The Bedroom
44. Driving Miss Daisy
45. Fargo
46. Lincoln
47. The Crying Game
48. The Fighter
49. Casablanca
50. M.A.S.H.

HM: The Artist, The Social Network, Hugo, Moneyball, Silver Linings Playbook, District 9, Milk, Atonement, The Queen, Michael Clayton, Good Night And Good Luck, Gravity, Dallas Buyers Club, Winter's Bone, The Conversation, Juno, Skyfall, Caddyshack, Airplane, The Blues Brothers, This Is Spinal Tap, Animal House, West Side Story, The Big Lebowski, Chinatown, American Gangster, 3:10 To Yuma, Training Day, Leon The Professional, American History X, Public Enemies and Iron Man.


Feel free to add to the list, or critique mine. I have a big hang up on movies getting more credit that they deserve.

 

Sorry Paddy.....Maybe I had set my expectations way too high, I grew up a fanboy of Conan The Barbarian, Conan The Destroyer, Spartacus and various other cheaply made schlocky Italian made barbarian/gladiator films, and I went in expecting fun, but all I got was a long drawn out overacted ultimately dull film, add to that I hate Joaquin Phoenix and not in a good way. The Sting nearly knocked me out I found it so dull, I was nodding like a heroin addict.

 

Yeah Phoenix really drug the film down for me, I'm a pretty big fan of Crowe's and I really wanted to love it, but it just fell flat for me, also I was never emotionally engaged with his story, they didn't focus on his family enough for me to really feel his need for revenge the way I should.

I was tempted to leave The Sting off the list because I haven't seen it in a while, the rest I've seen more recently or rewatched, sometimes although very rarely when I go back and watch movies 15 or 20 years after I first saw them my opinion slightly changes, and I'm a big fan of Newman and Robert Shaw, I've been meaning to rewatch it, so I don't hate it that much I just found it boring as a 18 year old or so at the time.

I thought the Lives of Others was decent though not totally blown away by it, although as a disclaimer I'm big on old Euro films, so most of the new ones don't measure up in my book so I may be biased.

And go ahead and bring up anything you want to ask me about film on this thread, Kirk the mod allows it and encourages it, the thread is meant to be a looser and more lounge like than the rest of the site, within reason ie: not too dirty, that's why all of the inanities moparfan, drenlou, MVC, UTF and I BS about is kind of tolerated here.

 

Don't Believe The Hype:deal

It seems most of you are buying into the hype and conventional thinking that Thurman is just too skilled and too good for Showtime Shawn Porter, well stop with the groupthink, he's not.

I've seen a lot of people on here saying Porter's chin is questionable, why? What particular reason would they have to believe that? He got dropped by Broner, go back and watch the KD, it was clearly somewhat of a balance shot, Porter was poorly positioned and Broner caught him with a perfect left hook when Porter was standing at an awkward angle, he wasn't hurt very badly, if at all, he probably wouldn't have went down had he been in a slightly different position, he had the wherewithal to try and plant his his feet and stay upright as he was falling to the ground. If he was so badly hurt he wouldn't have come back to muscle Broner around the ring and win the rest of the round.

Aside from the KD, Porter beat Broner far more convincingly than Maidana did had it not been for the two KD's Broner would have been far more competitive against Maidana, one could even argue it may have been worthy of a draw, and Maidana was hurt far worse by Broner than he ever was by Mayweather, Broner whether you like him or not, has heavy hands, and Porter for the most part was unaffected by them.

The same cannot be said for Thurman as far as sturdiness of his chin goes. Let's see.....

Thurman was dropped and supposedly hurt by Quandray Robertson.
Thurman was rocked by Diego Chaves
Thurman was rocked by Jesus Soto Karass
Thurman was rocked by Julio Diaz
Thurman was rocked by Robert Guerrero
Thurman was hurt badly and almost stopped by Luis Collazo

That's one hell of a pattern.:think

He's resorted to literally running from his last 3 featherfisted opponents due to his fear of being chin checked and still Guerrero and Collazo managed to get to him and hurt him.

Not many fighters at Welterweight are as good at closing the distance as Shawn Porter, nor are there any that are as good at swarming and crowding opponents, literally never allowing them a moment to breath, he's one of the strongest Welters in the division, he was able to bully and muscle Kell Brook who by all rights should probably be a Light Middleweight. He's as strong as a ****ing ox.

But Shawn Porter lost to a counter puncher like Kell Brook, right? Yeah he did but he also gave Brook one of the roughest fights of his career and literally manhandled him at times, it was all Brook could do to keep him corralled. And who's to say Brook is a level or two above Thurman? I could argue he is. He's definitely got heavier hands, he's also the sharper counter puncher of the two and one thing for certain is he's taller and far more physically imposing than the deceptively small One Time.

Porter feints well, his jab is solid, has a hell of a left hook, good body puncher, has good head movement and gets hit far less than people think and his pressure is unrelenting.

Downplay his chances at your risk.

I said he'd brutally KO Paulie and early, he did.
I said he'd beat Alexander with ease, he did.
I said he'd dominate Broner from start to finish, he did.
I said he'd be schooled by and lose to Kell Brook, he did.

I'm saying he dominates and stops Thurman somewhere around the 7th.....he will.:deal

This is a guy who was pressured non stop and almost stopped by an old shot to s*** Luis Collazo, think about it.

And how will those left hooks of Porter's effect his wrenched neck, that hasn't fully recovered?:think

 

I'm not saying that I can't have a change of heart after the weigh in either.

But he made 145 well and looked fine before the Broner match, I think he'll be okay.