**** Kirks Championships 2014 ****

enjoy the Selby fight guys
goodnight

 

Props on the update, David! :good

 

:cheers

 

ZHONG Ko4
LASCZYK KO3

 

Xiong Zhao Zhong UD
Kamil Laszczyk UD
Raul Hirales UD
Miguel Beltran Jr TKO
Steve Forbes TKO
Romain Jacob UD
Chris Algieri UD
Edrin Dapudong TKO
Hekkie Budler MD
Juan Carlos Reveco UD
Manuel Avila UD
Daniel Geale TKO
Denis Shafikov - KO

 

Add Selby UD!

 

Zhong UD, Laszczyk UD, Hirales UD, Beltran Jr UD, Maldonado Jr KO

 

Somebody called? :blood

The allegations aren't true, and my medication is properly balanced out at the moment. Don't believe what anyone says, certainly not when they're from Klinchenberg.

 

No comment! :hand

 

Zhong UD

 

Zhong UD12 Novoa
Diaz TKO9 Laszczyk (cuts)
Oquendo TKO7 Hirales
Beltran Jr. SD10 Gonzalez
Forbes UD10 Maldonado Jr.

 

Zhong UD

 

By the way, if anyone is bothered to know, Zhong will be giving up about 5" to Novoa on Wednesday.

Zhong is listed on Boxrec at 5' even but has been reported elsewhere as 4'10.5", which seems more likely.

Novoa meanwhile has no stats published anywhere but a few minutes' research yielded these findings:

Alberto Rossel is a confirmed 5'2". His opponent Jose Alfredo Zuniga, whose challenge for Rossel's interim WBA light flyweight title can be found on YT, looks to have about one inch on Rossel. Certainly not a lot more, but Rossel is obviously shorter. Zuniga in turn is roughly an inch shorter than Jose Argumedo, judging from pictures of them side-by-side at their weigh-in. There is footage of Argumedo vs. Novoa online in which yet again there is a 1" advantage for Argumedo.

You can also close the loop a bit earlier and confirm those eyeballed measurements from looking at the video of Zuniga vs. Novoa, where they are clearly of identical height. (separated by centimeters if anything, no more than fractions of an inch...)

So 5'3" or maybe five-three-and-a-half is best guess and probably correct for Novoa.


This will be the only real factor that functions in Novoa's favor, as Zhong will be defending his crown at home and has faced the much deeper field of competition. Of note, however, is their one common opponent Javier Martin Resendiz. Zhong outpointed him over twelve in his strawweight debut to claim his title, while Novoa stopped him in four. :think

 

Change to Laszczyk UD.

 

Laszczyk ud.