Kirk's Championships 2024 Boxing Prediction League!

drenlou · Jul 2, 2024

Vargas UD

BoxingABC1 · Jul 2, 2024

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Because the updates, as per usual become too much to deal with, especially when it's thankless, we're not being paid for any of this and it's done out of sheer passion. Usually whoever is doing the updates can only do it for so long before getting burned out. You got burned out, Pinoy got burned out, I got burned out, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before Chuck gets burned out. Quite frankly I'm amazed that @nellybc is as indefatigable as he is. But this is a lot to have dropped in one's lap, and while Chuck has made his fair share of errors, there's a learning curve when it comes to doing the updates, and that's why we ask people to check, just in case, to see if any mistakes have been made. From that perspective he's been improving. I don't think he was presenting himself as any kind of official, even though at this point, he is, because no one else wants to step up and do the updates, and he has. I think his frustration was rooted in sharing a similar passion for the sport as I do, and a passion tor the league and he hates to see it shedding players.

Although when it comes to the dwindling numbers, there's some extenuating circumstances with a few of the regulars, that can't be helped. Sadly as good as he was at doing the updates, Drama Show was a hated and despised poster in the British Forum, and he was permabanned, because of the sheer number of people reporting him. Long time poster and personal friend to me on here, lepinthehood was sadly also permabanned. I'm not responsible for either of these bans and I'd reverse their bans in a heartbeat, but Mods tend to not step on one another's toes and override one another's bans, it's an unwritten rule on here. Pinoy has been verging on bailing for quite some time, due to real life simply getting in the way, and not having the time to dedicate to the League, or to even posting on the site. I'm hoping he can re-find his passion, but he was a very young man when he started posting on here and circumstances change when you move into adulthood. As far as David B is concerned, he's far too concerned and personally invested with the situation in Ukraine at the moment, as anyone who's frequented the Lounge in recent months knows full well, the Ukraine thread is well over 1000 pages, mostly filled with his posts. He's implied he'll be back in the future.

Chanox, evidently even being paid, this was too much for him. Which goes to show you how much of a pain in the ass this can be, as you're well aware.

Pompous loser? Where did all of this animosity come from? I thought we were cool with one another? Or at the very least, in a far better place than we were pre-Covid. When it comes to putting together the Fight List, Pinoy handed over the reins to me voluntarily, it certainly wasn't a hostile takeover. You stopped doing the updates, I never forced you out and certainly didn't want you to stop doing them. If you had all of these complaints, you could have easily shot me a PM, I've been quite receptive in recent years, I certainly wouldn't have bitten your head off.

As far as being a pompous loser goes.... I've long ago given up hope at ever winning this league, I'm far too erratic, compulsive, emotion based and ADD to play it safe and take zero risks. Sure, I could, but that would bore me out of my skull, and yes... I get a rush out of taking gambles. So I just do this for fun at this point. I rarely start bitching and moaning if I take an L due to a robbery. It is what it is. So I'm certainly not pompous about that anymore. Now... does that mean that I don't genuinely believe in many of the upsets I pick? I certainly do. There's also some picks that are based on my love of some fighters and hatred of others. Anyone who knows my tastes well enough, should know when I'm going that route. Two recent examples, picking Frank Martin and Gallo Estrada, I can't stand Tank or Bam. But... I play with my heart like a fool sometimes, and pay the price, no big deal.

In regards to the number of fights added to the list. It certainly isn't to pad any stupid ass Daredevil record. I've always wanted many obscure matches added, that's something I've been whining about since I joined back in 2014. Long before there was any Daredevil competition. Merely because I think that there's countless competitive hard to call matches that fly under the radar that should be added. Quite frankly, even looking at the July Fight List, I don't think anyone can truly argue against the additions of any of them from a competitive standpoint. I said I'd scale back and as @Fogger just pointed out, I have to a certain extent, although yes... I could and probably should do better. But when scanning over Boxrec, anything I see that clicks as hard to call, I view as Fight List worthy. As far as the competition goes, you're in 3rd place, and the competition is heated among most of the guys at the top of the leaderboard. So I urge you to stick around as well.

Fine, I'll make an attempt to weed out some of the more insignificant matches from here on out, so I won't alienate other members of the League, and chill the gruelling overwhelming pace I wanted to set. Although there's also the part of me, that loves the passion of having a large FIght List can inspire. Because it forces League members to seek out as many matches as possible and watch the deep undercards, making for a far more well rounded fan. I think people forget, I started out doing Educate Yourselves threads for a reason. I love trying to instill the passion I have into others. I've always viewed this as a global sport, that should be far more inclusive and I want people to be aware of obscure fighters and obscure fights. Which is another reason why I've gone out of my way to be receptive to the international players concerns. So I include fights from all over the world, and thanks to YouTube, Streaming Apps and Twitter, it's a hell of a lot easier to keep track. So it came from a genuine place with me.

I'm sorry that your name was not added to the thread title, but as I mentioned before Mods don't step on one another's shoes. I didn't want to trample on the toes of @kirk by adjusting his thread title. But I'm all for you being added to it, and acknowledged as last year's winner. Congratulations for winning last year, it was a brutal breakneck pace and you pulled off winning in the toughest year in League history, you're a beast Drinquor. Sorry I wasn't more attentive and should have said something myself. But I was so concerned with recruiting new players for 2024, and focused on what's next, I didn't pay proper attention. That and I can be a bit aloof and detached at times, as well as depressed especially around the holidays.

Also, not to make excuses, but I've been burned out for about 3 years now and have been running on fumes as well, not just with boxing, but politics and society in general. I've barely been posting in the General, just check the Lounge, I've spent the vast majority of the last two years, writing movie reviews of all things on that Mulholland Drive movie thread. All of the robberies and just the general direction of the sport recently, has been alienating me more and more, and has wreaked havoc on my levels of passion, which pains me greatly since my passion has long fueled me.

Add to that, my personal life has been a disaster for the last year and a half, and unlike in the past, I'm managing it much better than I used to, I've ceased lashing out and stopped making a scene on the RBR's. Transference has always been one of my weak points, so I am proud of finally getting that more toxic aspect of my personality under control to a degree. Still, the personal issues, including legal issues of someone close to me that I'm helping, and health issues for several close family members, which have been mentally, physically and emotionally exhausting and overwhelming and have been all consuming. So I have been more distracted than usual. Mercifully, things have calmed down in the last few months. Real life has been taking a toll on many of us lately, and I'm certainly not immune.
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You let-down...I was expeting this reply to be far more vociferous...

In terms of the comments from people about players not keeping up with making picks, apologies, i missed every single fixture this weekend. Had a wedding where my missus was Maid of Honour so its been very hectic for me, normal service to resume from me from this week...

Pepsi Dioxide · Jul 2, 2024

Amado Vargas KO

IntentionalButt · Jul 2, 2024

Anybody wandering into the Kirk's League thread over the weekend:

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destruction · Jul 2, 2024

Iwata KO, Fisher KO, Belotti KO, Alan Sanchez UD, Vargas UD, Masvidal UD, Jacobs UD, Campa UD, Acosta UD, Zepeda Sagura KO, Mason KO, Foster III UD, Davis KO, Stevenson UD, Ioka UD

pincai · Jul 2, 2024

@CST80 is O’Foster vs Conceicao not worthy on the List?

FIGHTER2R · Jul 2, 2024

IWATA UD.

CST80 · Jul 2, 2024

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White - Featured Fights

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*** - Title Fight

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7/6 - Johnny Fisher vs. Alen Babic - 10x3
7/6 - Reece Bellotti vs. Levi Giles - 12x3 ***
7/6 - Alan Sanchez vs. Luis Lopez - 8x3

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7/6 - Nate Diaz vs. Jorge Masvidal - 10x3
7/6 - Daniel Jacobs vs. Shane Mosley Jr. - 10x3
7/6 - Alex Martin vs. Pedro Campa - 10x3
7/6 - Ricardo Rafael Sandoval vs. Angel Acosta - 10x3
7/6 - William Zepeda Segura vs. Giovanni Cabrera - 12x3
7/6 - Abdullah Mason vs. Luis Lebron - 8x3
7/6 - William Foster III vs. Eridson Garcia - 10x3
7/6 - Keyshawn Davis vs. Miguel Madueno - 10x3

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7/6 - Shakur Stevenson vs. Artem Harutyunyan - 12x3 ***

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7/10 - Katsuma Akitsugi vs. Jesus Ramirez Rubio - 10x3
7/11 - Nelson Hysa vs. Thorsten Fuchs - 12x3 ***
7/11 - Alban Bermeta vs. Obinna Joseph Mathew - 12x3 ***
7/11 - Mauro Forte vs. Cristobal Lorente - 12x3 ***

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7/12 - Roman Gonzalez vs. Rober Barrera - 10x3
7/12 - Charlie Sheehy vs. Ricardo Quiroz - 8x3
7/12 - Ruben Villa vs. Sulaiman Segawa - 10x3
7/12 - Raymond Muratalla vs. Tevin Farmer - 10x3
7/12 - Zhanibek Alimkhanuly vs. Andrei Mikhailovich - 12x3 ***
7/12 - Christian Carto vs. Carlos Buitrago - 8x3
7/12 - Khalil Coe vs. Manuel Gallegos - 10x3 ***
7/12 - Skye Nicolson vs. Dyana Vargas - 10x2 ***
7/12 - Jalil Major Hackett vs. Peter Dobson - 10x3
7/12 - Henry Lebron vs. Christopher Diaz - 10x3
7/12 - Jaron Ennis vs. David Avanesyan - 12x3 ***

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7/19 - Keiber Gonzalez vs. Humberto Diaz - 10x3
7/19 - Jeremy Alvarez vs. Leonardo Sanchez - 10x3 ***
7/19 - Carlos Canizales vs. Ivan Garcia Balderas - 12x3 ***
7/19 - Alexis Rocha vs. Santiago Dominguez - 12x3

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7/20 - Alan Abel Chaves vs. Xolisani Ndongeni - 10x3
7/20 - Francisco Fonseca vs. Jezreel Corrales - 10x3
7/20 - Owen Cooper vs. Ekow Essuman - 10x3 ***
7/20 - Solomon Dacres vs. David Adeleye - 10x3 ***
7/20 - Chantelle Cameron vs. Elhem Mekhaled - 10x2 ***
7/20 - Ashley Lane vs. Andrew Cain - 12x3 ***
7/20 - Nathan Heaney vs. Brad Pauls II - 12x3 ***
7/20 - Liam Davies vs. Shabaz Masoud - 12x3 ***
7/20 - Julio Cesar Chavez Jr vs. Uriah Hall - 6x3
7/20 - Jake Paul vs. Michael Perry - 8x3
7/20 - Amanda Serrano vs. Stevie Morgan - 10x2
7/20 - Ashton Sylve vs. Lucas Bahdi - 10x3
7/26 - Omar Cande Trinidad vs. Viktor Slavinskyi - 10x3 ***
7/26 - Gor Yeritsyan vs. Aram Amirkhanyan - 10x3 ***
7/27 - Moses Itauma vs. Mariusz Wach - TBD
7/27 - Ryan Garner vs. Archie Sharp - 10x3 ***
7/27 - Dennis McCann vs. Ionut Balut II - 12x3 ***
7/27 - Joe Joyce vs. Dereck Chisora - 12x3
7/27 - Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse vs. Claressa Shields - 10x2 ***
7/27 - Shohjahon Ergashev vs. Julian Smith - 10x3

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Pepsi Dioxide · Jul 2, 2024

Conceicao split decision win

CST80 · Jul 2, 2024

pincai said: ↑

@CST80 is O’Foster vs Conceicao not worthy on the List?
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Of course it is, that was just a minor mistake when I was doing the schedule. I usually have 2 partially minimized windows open with one occupying the top half of my PC screen and the other occupying the bottom half. Then I go to the lesser match on the card, copy and paste that one first, then work my way back up, in the proper order of matches, to the top of the card. But the way Boxrec has that particular card listed, even though clearly with Top Rank, the Shakur match is the headliner. Boxrec has the Foster-Robson match listed at the top. So since it was like 6 in the morning when I did the Fight List, I stopped at the Shakur match, and stopped scrolling back up.

pincai · Jul 2, 2024

Iwata KO8 Fisher KO3 Belloti close UD Sanchez close UD Vargas wide UD Masvidal close UD Sandoval close UD Zepeda wide UD Mason KO5 William Foster close UD Davis KO7 Stevenson wide UD Ioka close UD

destruction · Jul 2, 2024

Conceicao UD

CST80 · Jul 2, 2024

IntentionalButt said: ↑

Anybody wandering into the Kirk's League thread over the weekend:
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Not just anyone... I had the same reaction.

IntentionalButt · Jul 2, 2024

CST80 said: ↑

Not just anyone... I had the same reaction.
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Like, this almost reached IB vs. Boxing Girl levels of drama from the old Rummy's League.

CST80 · Jul 2, 2024

IntentionalButt said: ↑

Like, this almost reached IB vs. Boxing Girl levels of drama from the old Rummy's League.
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You're lucky you largely missed the all out wars of 2015-2018, they were nasty as ****, hence the disappointment voiced by @BoxingABC1. This was the height of civility compared to those toxic knock down drag outs. Personal growth is so boring sometimes.

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