Outcomes that you accurately predicted........

I was the only person I knew who thought that Toney Bellew might beat David Haye.

I looked at their respective preparations for the fight and smelled an upset.

 

I don't know why you would say that.

Are you telling me i picked Mormecks, Pianeta , Wach , Jennings , Leapai etc to beat Wlad... I can tell you right now i did not.

 

You picked Povetkin and Pulev off the top of my head.

It was getting to be a bit of a ritual that you would pick Wlad's opponent to beat him, then give him no credit when the opposite happened.

 

im not including any majority Klitchko or Tyson fights as they were easy to pick when heavily favored...leaving out the majority fights where a guy was overly favored....

Off hand some big fights..

Foreman vs cooney
Holyfield vs Douglas
Chavez vs Camacho
Foreman vs Moorer
Hatton vs Tzu
Jones vs Toney
Holyfield vs Bowe 2
Holyfield vs moorer 2
Vargas vs Trinidad
Delahoya vs Hopkins
Lewis vs Tua
Lewis vs Holyfield 2
Morrison vs foreman
Morrison vs Ruddock
Trinidad vs Delahoya
Joshua vs whyte
Breazeale vs Izu
Parker vs Ruiz
Whyte vs Chisora
Joshua vs klitchko
Canelo vs chavez jr.

way too many to track....

 

I thought it was a 55% 45% fight in favour of Haye because of his power ,but his lack of real action meant Bellew had a shot.

 

Picking favorites to win is not what this is about.

 

I picked Toney to dominate Holyfield.
Ward to win the Super 6. (He had like 1:6 odds back then.)
Calzaghe over Lacy.
I think I either picked Raheem to beat Morales or thought it would be very close.

 

You weren't alone.

I'm a pac fan and I predicted he would lose to Oscar, Ricky, and Miguel.

After that, I didn't pick against him again till Floyd.

 

I picked Larry Holmes to beat Ray Mercer. I picked Tapia over Romero. Whitaker over Chavez.

 

I didn't think it was likely that Hearns would knock Barkley out in the first round, and if he came out trying Barkley would hit his body hard. I thought 6-7 at first but my friend made me mad so I changed my prediction to 3.

 

Foreman vs Frazier I. I saw the fight on closed circuit in Austin, TX....and when the ref was giving the final instructions, and George told Joe "I am going to whup you like I'm your Daddy" and Joe blinked, then most people there at the CC knew Joe was going to be in for a long night. (The Houston newspaper had a pre-fight quote from George stating "he had fought tougher guys in Houston's Fifth Ward than Frazier")

 

Chavez vs Camacho
Chavez vs Taylor
Tyson vs Holyfield 1: Holyfield on points
Oscar vs Sweet Pea
Oscar vs Quartey
Oscar vs Vargas
Hopkins vs Trinidad
Pac vs Barrera
Pac vs Hatton
Pac vs Morales 2
Pac vs Marquez 2
Pac vs Oscar: Pac on points
Calzaghe vs Hopkins
Hopkins vs Tarver
Kovalev vs Hopkins
Pavlik vs Taylor 1: Pavlik on points
Kessler vs Froch 1
Wlad vs Haye
Wlad vs Peter 1



Fights I feel I called right and the judges botched:
Oscar vs Trinidad: Oscar on points
Oscar vs Mayweather: Oscar via SD
Pac vs Bradley 1: Pac on points
Kovalev vs Ward: Kovalev on Points


Some notable Misses:
Golota vs Lewis: who saw that coming?
Golota vs Bowe 2: who saw that coming?
Hopkins vs Taylor 1 and 2
Hopkins vs Dawson 1
Ward vs Kessler
Pavlik vs Hopkins
Vargas vs Trinidad
Vargas vs Mosley
Pac vs Morales 1
Pac vs Mayweather
Pac vs Marquez IV
Klitschko vs Fury
Bute vs Froch
Lewis vs Holyfield
Chavez vs Sweet Pea
Oscar vs Hopkins
Byrd vs Golota
Ruiz vs Holyfield 2

 

I picked BHop over Tito, and couldn't understand, even a little bit, how anybody could have any other pick in that fight.

 

I know a guy who bet Bellew in the correct round (11?) but he doesn't really follow boxing and has a reputation for betting on insane long shots (the guy isn't me). The odds were huge but he only bets a couple of quid at a time.

Wake me up when the 'fights you called wrong' thread is made.

 

Tipped that one myself but for pretty tenuous reasons. I saw an ad for the upcoming fight and Hopkins looked absolutely ripped whereas Tito just looked kind of flabby. I just thought the taller, more muscular guy who was a natural at the weight was going to win, plus Hopkins did a great mind job pre-fight as well.

In saying that I didn't think it would be the beat down that it was either.