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I have my fingers crossed that Pedraza may actually get the nod, because I think he'll beat him that decisively, and for the record in the last few times Haymon guys have taken huge step ups like with Fortuna-Douglas and Shafikov-Herring, the judges didn't give any leniency to the young bucks.

Yeah I see that too, he comes across as someone trying to overcompensate for his size, almost like he has a Napoleon complex, I went to school with several kids like that.

 

I think the DeGale-Jack will be shockingly one sided and end in a devastating KO of Jack, Jack will not be ready for DeGale's switch-hitting, angles, speed, rhythm, timing all of which are unorthodox, Jack was able to grind down out close decisions on Groves, Dirrell and the Bute match was more competitive than people want to admit, but what do they all have in common, they tend to be fairly predictable in their mode of attack, and they aren't the greatest at adjusting.

This I think will look similar Jack-Brand, Brand should have gotten the nod in that match, only it'll be much shorter, because DeGale will land and land clean from angles Badou is not expecting, Jack will get caught and caught hard, and like with the Edwards match, there'll be no recovering.

 

******The 2017 Championships Annual Rankings*******

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Lara TKO4 Pedraza UD (wide), DeGale UD (close), Lopez SD, Real SD.

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Lara TKO, Lopez UD, Real SD, Miura KO, Berchelt KO, Zlaticanin KO, Butler KO, Arroyo UD Ancajas KO Selby UD
Pedraza SD DeGale KO3 Frampton KO5

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Lara UD,, Jack SD, Lopez UD, Vitu TKO, Miura TKO, Vargas TKO, Selby UD, Garcia UD, Butler TKO, Arroyo UD, Ancajas UD Gervonta Davis SD Jack Sd Frampton UD close Mikey Garcia TKO11

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Erislandy Lara ko1, Adam Lopez UD, Cedric Vitu UD, Miguel Roman ko9, Francisco Vargas ko3, Lee Selby UD, Dejan Zlaticanin SD, Brandon Cook UD, Teiru Kinoshita UD. Ancajas ko3
Pedraza wide ud Degale wide ud Frampton wide ud

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Lara TKO, Lopez UD, Vitu UD, Miura UD, Vargas KO, Selby UD, Butler KO, Arroyo UD, Ancajas UD
Davis SD DeGale UD close Garcia UD wide Frampton UD close Moonsri UD

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Lara KO, Jack SD, Pedraza UD, Lopez UD, Vitu UD

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Lara tko, Pedraza MD, Degale MD

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Lara KO Davis KO Degale UD

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Lara TKO Davis UD Jack SD

 

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