Selcuk Aydin vs. DeMarcus Corley

This is tomorrow in the unofficial capital of Aydin's homeland, live on EuroSport from 3pm-5pm EST (8pm-10pm UK, 10pm-midnight local Istanbul time)

Slightly difficult one to predict.

Aydin is the betting favorite and rightfully so, but 1/8? :think

http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?t=488883



Aydin is a powerful hitter. So too were Provodnikov and Dulorme - and Corley made it the distance with them over 12 and 10 respectively (and climbed off the canvas literally a dozen times before succumbing to Matthysse)...

Aydin has the home-ring advantage. So too did Tito Bracero in Brooklyn and Dudey McCloskey in Belfast...

Corley is downright unpredictable, in general, throughout his career.

He looked completely passive and disinterested allowing Viktor Postol to jab his way to a boring decision in Postol's backyard nearly a year ago. That was our last impression of Chop Chop, and based on that you might think he was 'done'. He is always inconsistent, however. He in the past has followed those kinds of performances with highly motivated ones and sprung countless resultant upsets on people who thought he could be an easy name to pad their resume.

Aydin has been outfought thrice in his career but only has two official losses, back to back. (and he clearly proved the better man on the night to redeem himself in his 2011 rematch with Jo Jo Dan, to whom he really ought to have lost in 2010) Since then he is on a two-win streak over so-so opposition in shutting out the worn-down Italian former Euro champ Lauri and knocking out too-macho-for-his-own-well-being Mexican brawler Aaron Herrera. Neither of those suggests he should walk through someone like a Corley. Lauri is older than dirt and got blown away in quick and brutal fashion in a single minute by countryman Di Rocco (not a puncher...) the previous year and yet Aydin couldn't stop him. As for Herrera, with the way he fights it was inevitable he would be victimized by Aydin's superior firepower...and it took until the eighth of scheduled ten, Aydin barely getting the job done in time.

Schooling by the veteran trickster?

Explosive knockout by the Persian?

Hometown robbery?

:huh

Really it could be any of those. Worth tuning in.

 

This is for the WBC Mediterranean light welterweight title, which is currently vacant.

Aydin is currently WBC #4.

Corley is currently unranked in the WBC top 40.

This would be a huge leap back into contention for Chop-Chop. We're talking a lunar gravity leap.

 

They've widened.

He is like 1/11 now.

 

:yep The RBR in 24 hours will probably just be us.

 

Those boricuas must have been mere casual fans, else they would've recognized him as the guy who gave Dulorme his toughest fight before Abregu. :deal