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

Definately not happening.

On a side note, did anyone know that this is Cleverly's girlfriend:

http://www.rebeccadanielle.co.uk/

?

 

Cleverly is still on.

 

Alberto Rosas vs Cristian Mijares- Cristian Mijares by SD
Nathan Cleverly vs Alejandro Lakatos- Nathan Cleverly by KO
Matthew Macklin vs Ruben Varon- Matthew Macklin by KO
Paul Smith vs James DeGale- James DeGale by UD

Rojas-Mijares will be a tough tough fight. Mijares, as most people know, nice boxer with some nice scalps on his resume Kawashima, Arce, Navarro, and Munoz. And he has lost to Darchinyan and Nehomar Cermano twice. Then we got Juan Alberto Rojas, he is a classic fights anybody, anytime typ fighter and has fought quite a bit of notable names. Omar Nino Romero, Jose Lopez, AJ Banal, Rodrigo Guerrero, Fernando Montiel, and Simphiwe Nongqyai. He is a tough as nail fighter, great chin, great power and he was finally got a World title in his last outing against Nongqyai. So, big respect for him. :good Now, how will he do against Mijares? Well, I really do think he will stop Mijares late in the fight. Mijares is old (or at least in boxing years he's old) and his power won't be able to keep Rojas off him. So, really I do thing Rojas will stop Mijares, but I'll go with the "safe" pick and take Mijares by SD.

Then we got Cleverly taking on Lakatos, and this is a step down to what he has been fighting in his last 3 or 4 fights or so, and especially a major step down when you compare this fight to his last fight against Karo Murat. Anyway, though Cleverly won't have any problems in this fight and win this fight easy by around a bit of a late stoppage.

Same situation with Matthew Macklin. Macklin is taking a major step down in competition. Ruben Varon is def not as good as his record may indicate. Major step down and Macklin won't have any problems and this fight is ending early.

Now, James DeGale is taking another step up in class and this one is a pretty big step. Paul Smith is a good opponent and will be a nice test for James DeGale. I do think DeGale will be too much for Paul Smith and eventually win by a somewhat wide UD. Still though it will be interesting to see how far James DeGale gets pushed in this fight.

 

Whaaaaaaat~~ that sucks! Already had everything prepared for a night only scheduled for boxing.. well I guess there's alot of other good fights on saturday.

And about Mundine.. I know it's not nice and sorry if any of you are diehard Mundine fans, but I found it quite funny that it happened concidering its no more than a week age that he called out Pacquiao and Mayweather. Even if he was KO'd by what looked like a rabbit punch.. he just had it comming..

 

Great write ups as usual, but why no predictions/write-ups for Mares vs Darchinyan, Khan vs Maidana, or (especially) Ortiz vs Peterson? Your predictions are highly valued by myself and others, and i/we would love to hear your predictions on the three aforementioned fights. :good

 

Randall Bailey TKO
Amir Khan UD
Lamont Peterson UD
Abner Mares UD
Yonnhy Perez UD
Cristian Mijares UD
Nathan Cleverly TKO
Matthew Macklin TKO
James DeGale UD

 

Yea, I'm going to do those fights on Thursday. This weekend is so big that I wanted to break up the fights into 3 posts instead of one big long post. Thank you for the kind words as well.

 

Sounds good....and you're welcome!

 

Bailey TKO
Klitschko TKO- if its off klit must of been to scared
Khan TKO
Ortiz UD
Darchinyan TKO
Perez UD
Mijares UD
Cleverly TKO - who ever he's fighting
Macklin TKO
DeGale TKO

 

Gentlemen, you do know we have to reach 5000 posts here or we can't crown this year's Champ!

 

Wlad is terrified!
And Cleverly is the clever choice in this one.

Did my part, has to be enough :bart

 

i never new that