Predictions this weekend, What's yours???

I suspect Tarver will be in a stinker, getting another MD.

 

Tarver late TKO (but it's about 50/50 on Tarver lasting 12 rounds because nobody knows how close to being shot he is right now.

Forrest mid-late TKO (Piccirillo has never been stopped but has a fragile chin, a TKO is a 75% chance at least)

Donaire mid late TKO (Maldonado looked horrible in his last fight and hasn't looked good after getting stopped by Vic. I think Donaire will cut him early on and beat him down into a TKO or cut stoppage)

Chavez Jr. late TKO (He doesn't have a lot of power, but I think this opponent was hand-picked by Bob Arum for Chavez to look good against.. he wouldn't make JCC Jr. take a real risk yet)

Arce KO1 (Maybe KO2 and if he's lucky KO3, this is about as guaranteed as it gets for an early KO. Arce has P4P level power and Singsurat will be hard to miss.. the Thai fighter only took the fight to get some money and will get KOed very early.. it's a 95% chance)

Calderon wide UD (I saw Esquer fight before and he basically has zero boxing ability.. he's just a wild slugger with very good stamina and mental toughness. Unless Calderon is really fading badly this should be a shutout. It will look the same way Guzman-Valero will, except Guzman has better power than Calderon and Valero has a weaker chin than Esquer)

Alvarado UD (50/50 late TKO)

Bautista early TKO. (It would be funny as hell if he got hurt again before winning)

Banal early KO (Another Filipino prospect mismatch)

Melindo (Don't know anything about this guy except his lack of power, but another mismatch)

Domingo close UD

Cabarello mid-round TKO (Complete mismatch. I want to see a weighin picture of this matchup. Cabarello is like the Mark Breland of bantamweights and the guy he's fighting is a former flyweight who's barely 5 feet tall)



So we basically agree on everything. I will berate you when you're wrong about Arce though. Your love for Pacquiao makes you overrate Singsurat.

 

He's not showing his age. He was up against one of the best fighters in the world, Mijares and in both of his last matches he had huge style disadvantages. Thai fighters are tougher than Mexican bums? That's a ******ed statement. And in general, shitty Mexican fighters are tougher than Thai ones. Arce KO1.

You watching the Donaire fight? I told you Maldonado would start bleeding early.

 

:hat

 

In the predictions league, I picked Donaire TKO8 (exact round), Arce TKO1 (exact round), and Forrest TKO10 Piccirillo (1 away from exact round). I also got the analysis in each match exactly right. If PacDBest did this, you would not stop hearing about it for months and months and months..

You better have more respect for Mexican bums. They're the toughest bums in the world. And about Donaire-Arce.. I would pick Arce to win by TKO, but I would not be very surprised if Donaire won a 12 round decision. It's not a guarantee like Mijares-Donaire. They can each cause big problems for eachother, so it's gonna be a hard fight for both of them. Arce has devastating power and although he has very limited skills, he has amazing mental strength and sticks to a gameplan well. He also has great stamina and punch output. Donaire is a MUCH better boxer, but his chin has never been seriously tested and his defense isn't great. Donaire will be outboxing Arce and winning the early-mid rounds, but Arce's powershots will also be getting through too often. I simply think Donaire will let too many of Arce's punches through and have the impression that just because he's hitting Arce a lot more, Arce will be more tired than him in the later rounds. Once the later rounds come, Donaire will find himself more tired than he ever expected to be while Arce will still be strong and will be able to connect more and more powershots every round. So, it will be a great, close fight ending in Donaire getting stopped late because of taking too many of Arce's punches. It might end earlier if Donaire's chin isn't very solid. To win, Donaire has to fight safety-first and concentrate on defense more than trying to land a ton of punches on Arce. But if Donaire is surprisingly tough as hell, has a great chin, and will fight a pretty smart fight he will win. I'll go with Arce TKO 10. Mijares still dominates Donaire in any situation.

 

We'll see what happens when Donaire meets Arce. I stick with Arce by mid-late TKO. About your Mijares-Donaire analysis, I started laughing when you said he'll counter every time Mijares throws his jab and I stopped reading when you said he "already mastered fighting a southpaw". atsch


And the Bautista/Banal performances don't seem to be lookin very good. I would check a news site right now to see if Bautista got hurt during the match, but I'm waiting to watch the JCC Jr. match and don't want to see the results.