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

Oh ****, almost forgot I got Barros and Soloman by UD.

The fights weren't graded on boxrec yet, so I assume the fights are almost on.

 

Berto UD
Hatton UD
Ward UD
Froch UD

Make suree to include me on the list.

Heading to top spot.

 

Jonathan Victor Barros UD
Brad Solomon SD
Matthew Hatton TKO
Juan Carlos Burgos TKO
Takahiro Ao UD
Juan Manuel Marquez TKO
Andre Berto TKO
Celestino Caballero TKO
Andre Ward UD
Arthur Abraham KO
Robert Helenius TKO


EDIT: I didn't see anything about the Takayama fight...not sure if it's still on

 

Im gonna take a chance and change to Tajbert UD

 

Matthew Hatton UD
Hozumi Hasegawa UD
Takahiro Ao UD

 

Ao just won a UD over Tajbert..

well WAR HASEGAWA!

 

Great job BigBone!

Anyway, WAR JAPAN!

 

And Hasegawa won by UD, 117-110 x 3.

I tried to get around the legal system to catch this online, and was abslutely furious yet nervous refreshing FN and boxrec. Bigtime relief. That Montiel loss hurt very bad, I gotta tell ya.

Welcome back Hozumi!

 

I always thought I'm an entertainer. Now I know. A rich one.

 

Big, BIG Saturday coming! Let's see them!

Marquez TKO
Berto TKO
Caballero TKO
Ward UD
Abraham TKO
Helenius TKO
Joyi UD
John UD

 

Forget that **** - "Magic" Matthew Hatton won by 3rd round KO.

 

Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Michael Katsidis- Juan Manuel Marquez by KO
Andre Berto vs. Freddy Hernandez- Andre Berto by UD
Celestino Caballero vs. Jason Litzau- Celestino Caballero by KO
Andre Ward vs. Sakio Bika- Andre Ward by UD
Carl Froch vs. Arthur Abraham- Arthur Abraham by KO
Robert Helenius vs. Attila Levin- Robert Helenius by KO
Nkosinathi Joyi vs. Katsunari Takayama- Nkosinathi Joyi by UD

Ok, let's start off with the Joyi-Takayama fight (I thought I heard it was canceled, but we'll roll with it anyway) I like Joyi in this fight due to his skills, fighting at home, and Takayama isn't on his level. He is a solid fighter, but every step up fight he has lost. So, if this fight is still on, I see Joyi winning by a wide UD, basically, like what Roman Gonzalez did last year.

Robert Helenius is a hard hitter, Levin has 3 losses all of them by stoppage (including one by the greatest human being in the world Mr. SNV :smoke ). This is not a good mix. Levin is a great pick for Helenius at this stage of his career. Helenius is a young fighter and already fighting in 12 round scheduled fights. I do see Helenius stopping Levin and continuing his way up the Heavyweight food chain.

Now, we get into the juice part of Saturday night. Let's start off with the first fight on HBO. This fight I'm very interested in. Litzau is the bigger man, and he hits hard. Caballero is moving up a weightclass to 130 and is with a good fighter. Caballero is a fighter that throws lots of slapping punches that eventually wear down opponents or win by wide UD. Litzau as mentioned is naturally bigger and hits hard so it should be interesting to watch. While Litzau does hit hard Caballero has beautiful defense, nice footwork, and just basically does everything better than Litzau, except for power, still though uit should be an interesting fight and I do think Caballero will win and will evenutally stop Litzau around 8, 9, 10 somewhere around there.

Then we got, Andre Berto-Freddy Hernandez and I get the feeling people are vastly underrating Hernandez in this fight, you know, just brushing him off as "another nobody" or "a tomato can" you know the works that people around the net say. Hernandez is no pushover and Berto will have to work hard to win, and if he really wants to impress to get a shot at Pacquiao or Mayweather he will stand in there and try and get excitment and a buzz going about him which has been lacking for the past few years now. Now, obviously, Berto is the one with all the skills, he's got the better speed, better footwork, etc, but Hernandez has power and if Berto does want to take risks he will be taking a chance and risking getting KO'd himself. Also, Berto has terrible stamina and I think that will play a factor since I seriously doubt Berto is knocking out Hernandez. Berto doesn't have one punch power, and Hernandez has a good chin and he is tall. So, I would be surprised to see Berto knocking out Hernandez cold, may'be a corner stoppage or ref comes in, that may'be, but a straight up KO I doubt it. So, anyway, I think stamina will come in to play while Berto is using his speed and hitting Hernandez around round 8, 9 Hernandez will use he size and power to evenutally give Berto problems, but I don't think Hernandez will get to him and I see Berto winning on the scorecards by a fairly wide margin of 117-111.

Then, let's go to Showtime's "main event" Andre Ward-Sakio Bika. This is a solid fight, but this fight should open up the telecast. I'm a bit bummed that Showtime is showing this fight last because Froch-Abraham will be a much better and a much more competitive fight and a more excting fight. Anyway, Ward-Bika will be a good fight, Ward is going to win by a pretty wide UD, but still it should be somewhat entertaining (to some, at least) Bika is a tough cookie that gave Calzaghe and Bute somewhat tough fights. So, he should give Ward a somewhat tough fight and Ward will probably win by around 117-111, 118-110, (and of course the hometown scorecard that has already been submitted 120-105 in favor of Ward )

Ok, which one should I go with first Froch-Abraham or Marquez-Katsidis hmmm :think alright let's go with Froch-Abraham. When this fight was first announced I went Abraham by KO. Then as the week progressed I started thinking hmm, may'be Froch by UD, but nah I'm sticking with my original pick (because not sticking with my original pick last week screwed me :twisted: ) I've got Abraham by KO around round 5. Froch keeps his hands low, chin is solid-to-good, defense is well....doesn't have one one. While Abraham has a nice tight defense and has dynamite in his hands and when he throws he usually has pretty decent accuracy too which I think is one of the more underrated attributes, along with his speed. AA has very deceptive speed he is much faster than he looks. Also, the two fighters that have given AA problems is Dirrell (obviously since he lost that fight) and the first Miranda fight. Miranda was able to use his speed to not get hit by AA too many times and he looped a shot and broke his jaw, and that is the one x-factor in this fight. Can Froch get a looping shot in early and make AA think about Froch's power? We'll find out and my prediction is a 5th round stoppage by AA.

Also, just a sidenote about the AA-Froch fight. Kind of funny a few months back, basically, when the fight was first announced I had a dream that Abraham knocked out Froch in the 2nd round. Froch was laid out on the left side of the ring, so on a personal not I'll be intersted to find out if that happens.

Ok, so the last fight of this great month of November and super Saturday. Juan Manuel Marquez-Michael Katsidis. This is a guaranteed war from first round to the last round or whenever somebody gets knocked out. Juan Manuel Marquez is a powerful, beautiful counter punching machine. Michael Katsidis is a powerful, straight forward machine. I love these agression vs counter type fights. Ok, so we got JMM who we all know is still one of the best P4P boxers right now. Katsidis is an exciting fighter with an all out, warrior type mentality. How will these turn out? Well, I've been going back and forth on how this fight will turn out, and I think I will go with JMM by somewhat late stoppage. I jus think that JMM's precision wins him the fight. JMM's accuracy will cut up and eventually stop Katsidis I believe. I'm banking that JMM still has enough in him for 1 more war....I may change it though, because I can see Katsidis' big heart winning him the fight and JMM's old age and shopwarn body getting beaten in this fight. Ugh, it's a really really tough fight. Ima think about it somemore i may change my pick, but we'll see. I do know that this will be a super Saturday of boxing! :good

 

Marquez tko. Berto ud. Caballero tko. Ward ud. Abraham tko. Helenius tko. Joyi tko. John ud.