Kirks Championships : Boxing Prediction League : 2018

***2018 RANKINGS***
The Lineage of the #1 Ranking

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…SCHWARZKOPF MD PARKER SD TAYLOR KO BURNETT KO ALIMMKHANULY DQ BERCHELT UD
SANCHEZ KO JERUSALEM MD PAPIN KO BELLEW KO VAN HEERDEN SD
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…Schwarzkopf UD Parker UD Taylor UD Burnett UD Alimkhanuly UD Berchelt TKO
Papin TKO Crolla TKO Usyk UD Mann UD Glowacki UD Briedis UD Kameda TKO Kavaliauskas UD Saucedo UD Parodi UD Wierzbicki UD Balski UD Krasniqi UD Lejarraga TKO Rios TKO Arias UD Miller TKO Martin UD Yafai UD Akhmadaliev UD Bivol TKO Niyomtrong UD
Van Heerden UD
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…Schwarzkopf UD Close Parker UD Close Taylor UD Wide Burnett UD Close Alimkhanuly UD Wide Berchelt KO 9
Van Heerden UD, Santana KO
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…Schwarzkopf UD close Parker UD close Taylor KO10 Burnett UD close Alimkhanuly UD close Berchelt KO10
Sanchez UD close Heerden UD Solomon UD
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…Schwarzkopf UD, Parker UD, Taylor UD, Burnett UD, Alimkhanuly UD, Berchelt TKO
Sanchez UD, Demecillo UD, Van Heerden UD, Solomon UD
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…SCHWARZKOPF UD. PARKER UD. TAYLOR UD. BURNETT UD. ALIMKHANULY UD. BERCHELT TKO
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…Schwarzkopf Wide UD, Parker TKO9, Taylor TKO10, Burnett Wide UD, Alimkhanuly UD, Berchelt TKO9
Sanchez UD, Szpilka Wide UD, Usyk TKO10, Breidis Wide UD, Kameda UD, Parodi UD, Wierzbicki UD, Lejarraga TKO, Miller TKO, Martin UD, Yafai Wide UD, Akhmadaliev TKO, Bivol UD, Horn UD
Haskins SD, Van Heerden Wide UD, Solomon Close UD
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Lawson UD, Solomon UD
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…Schwarzkopf UD Parker TKO Taylor TKO Burnett UD Alimkhanuly UD Berchelt TKO
Haskins SD
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…Schwarzkopf KO, Parker UD, Taylor KO, Burnett KO, Alimkhanuly KO, Berchelt KO
Sanchez UD, Demecillo KO, Laggoune UD, Heerden KO, Solomon KO
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…Schwarzkopf UD, Parker UD, Taylor UD, Burnett SD, Alimkhanuly UD, Berchelt KO
Van Heerden UD
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Demecillo KO Heerden UD Solomon UD
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…Schwarzkopf UD Parker KO Taylor KO Burnett UD Alexander KO Berchelt UD
Sanchez UD Jerusalem TKO Papin UD Wach UD Croalla TKO Usyk UD Zubov UD Glowacki UD Breidis TKO Demecillo UD Opetaia UD Van Heerden UD Solomon UD
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…Schwazkopf UD Parker UD Taylor KO Burnett KO Alimkhanuly UD Berchelt KO
Van Heerden UD Solomon SD
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…Schwarzkopf UD | Parker UD | Taylor UD | Burnett UD | Alimkhanuly UD | Berchelt TKO
E. Sanchez UD | Haskins UD close | Opetaia TKO9 | van Heerden MD | Santana SD
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…Schwarzkopf KO Parker KO Taylor KO Donaire KO Alimkhanuly KO Roman KO
Sanchez SD Jerusalem UD Papin KO Wach KO Crolla SD Usyk KO Mann UD Vlasov KO Breidis KO Kameda MD Arriaza KO Saucedo KO Parodi KO Wierzbicki UD Balski SD Krasniqi UD Lejarraga KO Rios KO Rosado KO Miller KO Nantapech SD Sanchez KO Martin SD Zhang KO Buglioni KO Yafai KO Akhmadaliev UD Bivol KO Pumicpic UD Niyomtrong UD Horn KO
Haskins UD Opetaia UD Heerden UD Close Santana KO7
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…Burnett UD
Wach KO, Yordan KO, Usyk UD, Glowacki UD, Breidis KO, Kameda KO, Miller KO, Yafai KO, Bivol KO, Horn KO
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11/3 - Timo Schwarzkopf vs. Florin Cardos - 12x3 EBU-EU Super Lightweight Title
11/3 - Zach Parker vs. Darryll Williams - 12x3 BBBofC British Super Middleweight Title
11/3 - Josh Taylor vs. Ryan Martin - 12x3 WBC Silver Super Lightweight Title
11/3 - Ryan Burnett vs. Nonito Donaire - 12x3 WBA Super World & WBC Diamond Bantamweight Titles
11/3 - Janibek Alimkhanuly vs. Vaughn Alexander - 8x3
11/3 - Miguel Berchelt vs. Miguel Roman - 12x3 WBC World Super Featherweight Title
11/8 - Emilio Sanchez vs. Enrique Bernache - 10x3

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11/10 - Aleksei Papin vs. Vasil Ducar - 12x3 IBF International Cruiserweight Title
11/10 - Artur Szpilka vs. Mariusz Wach - 10x3
11/10 - Anthony Crolla vs. Daud Yordan - 12x3
11/10 - Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tony Bellew - 12x3 WBC World, WBA Super World, IBF World, & WBO World Cruiserweight Titles
11/10 - Artur Mann vs. Alexey Zubov - 10x3
11/10 - Krzysztof Glowacki vs. Maksim Vlasov - 12x3
11/10 - Mairis Breidis vs. Noel Gevor - 12x3

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11/16 - Egidijus Kavaliauskas vs. Roberto Arriaza - 10x3
11/16 - Maurice Hooker vs. Alex Saucedo - 12x3 WBO World Super Lightweight Title
11/17 - Jeremy Parodi vs. Luca Rigoldi - 12x3 EBU Super Bantamweight Title
11/17 - Lukasz Wierzbicki vs. Bethuel Ushona - 10x3 Poland International Welterweight Title
11/17 - Adam Balski vs. Nikodem Jezewski - 10x3 Poland Cruiserweight Title
11/17 - Robin Krasniqi vs. Stefan Haertel - 12x3 EBU Super Middleweight Title
11/17 - Kerman Lejarraga vs. Frankie Gavin - 12x3 EBU Welterweight Title
11/17 - Brandon Rios vs. Ramon Alvarez - 10x3
11/17 - Gabriel Rosado vs. Luis Arias - 10x3
11/17 - Jarrell Miller vs. Bogdan Dinu - 12x3

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11/24 - Dennis Ceylan vs. Jesus Sanchez II - 12x3 EBU-EU Featherweight Title
11/24 - Sandor Martin vs. Mauro Maximiliano Godoy - 10x3
11/24 - Zhilei Zhang vs. Alexander Ustinov - 12x3 WBO Oriental Heavyweight Title
11/24 - Frank Buglioni vs. Fanlong Meng - 12x3 IBF Inter-Continental Light Heavyweight Title
11/24 - Khalid Yafai vs. Israel Gonzalez - 12x3 WBA World Super Flyweight Title
11/24 - Murodjon Akhmadaliev vs. Alexander Mejia - 10x3
11/24 - Dmitry Bivol vs. Jean Pascal - 12x3 WBA World Light Heavyweight Title

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Everything is set in stone for tomorrow in Glasgow.

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Schwarzkopf UD, Zach Parker KO, Taylor tko, burnett UD, Berchelt UD, Bernache UD, Wach KO, Yordan KO, ALIMMKHANULY UD

 

What sports do you like besides boxing?

 

Football, Cricket, Snooker

 

I thought that Stalker and Solaris were awesome, but Andrei Rublev blew both of them away. I was especially impressed by the Tatar Raid in the fifth part of the film. Stuff like that, people getting speared to the ground, tortured with fire, horses falling down stairs really sticks with you.

Closely Watched Trains is sort of like Life is Beautiful. It's a light-hearted comedic take on Nazi occupation. The train station agent comes from a long line of lazy men who just want easy jobs and to do as little as possible to get by. Meanwhile, there's sex going on all around him, and he's trying to lose his virginity. In the background at the end, there's some important stuff about the Resistance. The novella is a war-comedy kind of like Catch-22, although I doubt the author had read that when he wrote CWT only four years later. It's antecedent is almost certainly The Good Soldier Svejk which is a Czech classic.

Sword of Doom is my favorite samurai film. It follows the actions of an evil rogue samurai, not an anti-hero, he's a villain. He rapes and murders. He's an assassin. He kills the young and old, women and children. He's sort of a bodhisatva but the path he takes to nirvana is one of dedicating himself to pure evil. Evil is like his creed. And he's a really good swordsman, total badass. There are a couple of films based on the long episodic novel that features this guy, kind of like Lone Wolf and Cub or The Eight Dog Chronicles. And this film has a subplot where the son of a guy he's murdered is dedicating his life like Batman to getting good enough to beat him and tracking him down for revenge. I won't spoil what happens at the end. It is amazing.

The Battle of Algiers is quite frankly one of the best war movies I've ever seen. It's about the French war on terror in their Muslim colony of Algiers in the late 50s. They have suicide bombers, mass shootings, assassinations, terrorist cells, torture, all that stuff we got from ours in the 2000s.

 

KAMEDA SD

 

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MMA, Kickboxing, Muay Thai. Occasionally post season American Football, Baseball, Basketball.

 

wah? lol

 

Top 15 Films of 1964
1. Zorba The Greek -love it, and that song/dance at the end I think about all the time

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I once took public domain ww2 footage and made a music video with this song.
2. The Night Of The Iguana -meh
3. Diary Of A Chambermaid -didn't see
4. Dr. Strangelove -good
5. Goldfinger -good
6. The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg -didn't see
7. Shot In The Dark -not a Clousea fan
8. Onibaba -need to see
9. A Fistful Of Dollars -should be higher
10. Mary Poppins -I still watch this some times as an adult. Chim chim a-roo.
11. A Band Of Outsiders - I avoid Godard. Worse than Antonioni or Lynch.
12. Red Desert -I actually really liked this. The cinematography was lovely. The color, the set design.
13. Fail Safe -decent, a nice contrast to Dr. Strangelove, based on the same book.
14. Topkapi -didn't see
15. Father Goose -didn't see
HM: Kwaiden, Zulu, Masque Of The Red Death -great films

Top 15 Films of 1963
1. The Birds -don't care for it
2. 8 1/2 -my favorite film
3. Hud -pretty good
4. Contempt -overrated, although I liked the extra features with Fritz Lang
5. The Great Escape -fun fun movie
6. The Silence -didn't see
7. The Pink Panther -the soundtrack is great
8. Winter Light -don't care for Bergman's depressing atheism
9. The Leopard -superb
10. Billy Liar -funny
11. Black Sabbath -haven't seen
12. Cleopatra -haven't seen
13. From Russia With Love - classic Connery
14. It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World -didn't really like it, in spite of being packed with jokes and stars
15. The Haunting -liked it
HM: Jason & The Argonauts -Ray Harryhausen!

Top 10 Films of 1962
1. Jules And Jim -didn't care for
2. Lolita - the book is one of my favorites, but the movie was just okay
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - saw it drunk, was alright, should view it again
4. My Life To Live - don't do Godard
5. Lawrence Of Arabia -love it
6. Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? -need to see
7. Cape Fear -good film
8. Carnival Of Souls -decent
9. Walk On The Wild Side -haven't seen
10. The Exterminating Angel -loved the half hour or so I've seen
11. To Kill A Mockingbird -pretty good
12. Dr. No -pretty good
13. L'Eclisse -don't do Antonioni
14. The Longest Day -love it, especially that part with the French fighting house to house street to street
15. Advise & Consent -adding to my list to see
HM: The Manchurian Candidate, Mutiny And The Bounty The Miracle Worker, The Trail, Sanjuro, That Touch Of Mink, Hatari, Boccaccio '70. -so many good movies, you know the fold the napkin scene in The Miracle Worker is one of my favorite action sequences, it's choreographed like a great Hong Kong fight

Top 15 Films of 1961
1. The Misfits -John Huston directs, Arthur Miller writes, Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe act. I need to see this.
2. Breakfast At Tiffany's -ugh, the book was so much better
3. The Children's Hour -heh, sounds funny
4. Last Year At Marienbad -didn't see
5. Viridiana -need to see
6. Through A Glass Darkly -liked it
7. Yojimbo -love it, classic Kurosawa samurai goodness
8. Splendor In The Grass -didn't see
9. The Innocents -saw the remake
10. Summer & Smoke - Splendor in the Grass sounds more like a Tennessee Williams title
11. The Curse Of The Werewolf -didn't see
12. One, Two, Three -so so funny
13. Judgment At Nuremberg - I expected more, but hey look Shatner!
14. The Roman Spring Of Mrs. Stone -didn't see
15. Leon Morin, Priest -didn't see
HM: King Of Kings, The Hustler, 101 Dalmatians, The Guns Of The Navarone -good films
Clearly I love Audrey Hepburn. -she's pretty but can't act. I prefer Katherine Hepburn.

Top 15 Films of 1960
1. Psycho -doesn't scare me
2. La Dolce Vita -amazing classic
3. The Virgin Spring -great
4. L'Avventura - boring
5. The Fugitive Kind -Lumet, Williams, Brando, why haven't I seen this?
6. The Apartment -liked it, but it shouldn't have won best picture that year
7. The Young One -didn't see
8. The Time Machine -didn't like
9. Spartacus - I am Spartacus.
10. The Grass Is Greener -didn't see
11. Elmer Gantry -didn't see
12. Inherit The Wind - some of the best dialog in film
13. Breathless - did not care for it
14. Peeping Tom -not my cup of tea
15. Rocco & His Brothers - on my list to see
HM: The Magnificent Seven, -overrated, especially weak considering how good Seven Samurai is.
The Bad Sleep Well - didn't care for it

 

Debating starting my balls to the wall approach by picking Cardos. The fight being in Germany is putting me off though

 

Top 10 Films of 1959
1. Suddenly, Last Summer -thought I'd seen this, but no, going on my list to see
2. North By Northwest -didn't thrill me
3. Some Like It Hot -I love it.
4. The 400 Blows -love it
5. Ben Hur -didn't do much for me
6. Black Orpheus -didn't like
7. On The Beach -love it, isn't there a haunting version of Waltzing Matilda played?
8. The Mummy -didn't see
9. Rio Bravo - great western
10. Operation Petticoat -sounds funny

Top 15 Films of 1958
1. The Lovers - she sounds like a *****
2. The Big Country -didn't see
3. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof -some of the best film dialog ever
4. Houseboat
5. Indiscreet
6. Nazarin
7. Vertigo -overrated
8. Hidden Fortress -liked it
9. The Last Hurrah -great political film, more relevant than ever
10. The Magician
11. Touch Of Evil -don't like it
12. The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad -like it
13. Some Came Running -liked it a lot, written by the same fellow who wrote The Thin Red Line and From Here to Eternity
14. The Long Hot Summer -love it
15. Ashes And Diamonds -liked it
This will be very unpopular. -Why? I picked mostly the same films.

Top 10 Films of 1957
1. The Seventh Seal -super film
2. Nights Of Cabiria -wonderful
3. White Nights -haven't seen
4. Wild Strawberries -wonderful film, top 20 territory
5. An Affair To Remember -didn't see, but I did dislike Sleepless in Seattle
6. Sayonara - Brando in Japan. Ever see Teahouse of the August Moon. Makes Micky Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's look positively woke by comparison.
7. Night Of The Demon
8. Throne Of Blood -great film
9. The Curse Of Frankenstein
10. The Bridge On The River Kwai -great film

Top 15 Films of 1956
1. Giant -haven't seen
2. Forbidden Planet -overrated
3. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers -alright
4. Tea & Sympathy -haven't seen
5. The Searchers -second or third best western ever
6. Friendly Persuasion -haven't seen
7. Death In The Garden
8. Moby Dick
9. The Man Who Knew Too Much
10. Around The World In 80 Days -hated it, worst best picture?
11. The Killing -like it
12. The Ten Commandments -like it
13. Written On The Wind -haven't seen
14. The Creature Walks Among Us
15. And God Created Woman

 

Yeah, in high school and college I used to watch a couple a day. Somehow I found time to read a book a week too. Sadly, in my thirties I've really fallen off in both respects. I've only seen 34 movies this year and read about 15 books. I think I'm reading too many comicbooks and spending too much time online. You lose your focus as you get older and get pulled in so many different directions. Watching boxing, looking at art, listening to podcasts, and sometimes playing video games takes it's toll.

It depends how much you are into something. I probably don't watch many more than a hundred fights a year, but a lot of the guys here find time to watch about three hundred. It's all about prioritization. Prioritization and obsession. When you really like something boxing/movies the tendency is to push it as far as you can. You become a completionist. You want to see all 80 fights of your favorite fighter or all 70 films of your favorite director/writer/actor. I feed both habits the same. I make lists and work my way through them. I watched the fight of the years the same way I watched the Best picture winners or imdbs top 250.

Then once I'd finished the fight of the years, I started making a list of alternates. I watched Arguello vs Escalera 2 yesterday. There are some fans who just want to watch everthing new and in theaters, and then there are the historicists who like watching old 1930s fights and films. That's what the Classic section of this site is for. It's no different from any other hobby. It's pretty common to find people obsessed with football, baseball, basketball, or soccer. They watch pro and college divisions and manage to fill up their whole week. Then there are the news junkies who have to watch hours of news everyday, and read endless articles, because they are so afraid they'll miss something.

I talked to my sister the other day. She has a husband and a new baby so she doesn't have time for any of this nonsense.