Predictions you got way wrong.

Rios vs Abril - I thought Rios would do a job on Abril and stop him sometime after the midway point. I thought everyone was putting too much faith in Abril's win against Acosta (who looked shot to hell in that fight) and I didn't think Abril had the hustle to keep Rios off him. Technically Rios got the decison but we all know it was bull****.

 

Moore-Duran.Thought Davey's youth would overtake Duran's experience.Boy, was I wrong.

 

Geez...I've picked some winners few have come up with like Pac over DLH, Holyfield over Tyson I, Shane over Margarito...but two absolute klunker picks were Marquez over Mayweather (knew my pick was in real trouble when Mayweather decided to break the rules and come in heavy...but didn't really matter anyway) and Winky/Trinidad...when my picks crash and burn, it's big time.

 

I thought Morales was going to paste Barrera in their 3rd fight, he had looked excellent at 130 lbs & despite looking flawless vs a way past prime Ayala in his last fight, Barrera took a massive beating from pacquiao in the previous fight down at 126 lbs.

I think everyone, including Erik, thought that MAB was just a `washed up at elite level` fighter getting in the way of the fight everyone was drooling for... Morales v pacquiao.... turned out Barrera actually did better vs Morales than pacquiao did in Morales next fight.... crazy ****.

 

I picked Sam Peter to beat Vitally Klitschko.

My pick was based on historical prescident.

This is probably the case where I have been proven wrong most decisively.

 

Oh jesus. Where to start

Tyson/Holyfield
Holyfield/Lewis 1
Trinidad/Delahoya
Trinidad/Hopkins
Barrera/Pacquiao
Marquez/Pacquiao 3

And of course.......Bute/Froch :sad2

 

Hell, i thought Barrera was gone by the time he and Morales got together for their first fight. I was a youngin at the time and seeing Barrera look like absolute crap against Maurin, get KTFO by and then struggle with Jones, and then with Morales destroying everyone in his path I thought Erik was gonna win no problem.

Barrera should have won the first one, and vice versa for the rematch. Weird trilogy :huh

 

More than I'd like to admit.

 

I thought Liston would beat Clay- I KNEW he would.

I thought Ali would beat Frazier in their first fight.

 

My worst one was Tua/Lewis.

I saw something in Tua that wasnt there. I thought he could wear down the bigger man in a long grueling fight. I didnt expect him to quit trying to win in the middle of the fight.

 

Your not alone on that one. Alot people though Moore would put Duran`s name on his record. Davey Moore was a terrific talent.

 

I certainly remember that everyone thought Jerry was there to get ko'd or stopped on cuts. Pretty much a silver platter kind of fight and it sure didn't go that way at all. But there was a lot of interest in Mac Foster at the time.

I think some folks didn't jump on the early Foreman bandwagon because of Foster. They thought he was another ko artist that was going to lose once he stepped up and his career would unfold like Foster's.

 

No.


What you saw in Tua was real. It got beaten out of him against Ike. Of course that fight took a whole lot more out of Ike than Tua which is why Lewis woulda ****ed him up.

Tua-Ibeabuchi broke the record for most punches thrown in a heavyweight fight. They threw more in 12 rounds then Ali-Frazier 71 threw in 15. That fight should have been in their prime for the title.

 

Tszyu-Hatton

Even though he was 35 and had hardly fought in 3 years while fighting at 2am in his opponents backyard. Massive embarassment losing to someone as limited as Hatton.

 

Harding-Andries II