This week's Picks??? Make picks, Predictions analysis.

Lujan vs Castillo = Lujan by UD
Judah vs Clottey = Clottey by UD
Dachinyan vs Kirilov = Kirilov by UD
Anthony Peterson vs Jauregui = Peterson by UD

 

I never thought much of Darchinyan and have been picking Kirilov since the fight was announced. Nice try peasant.

 

Lujan vs Castillo - Castillo SD
Judah vs Clottey - Judah UD
Dachinyan vs Kirilov - Kirilov KO 6
Anthony Peterson vs Jauregui - Peterson KO 3
Demers vs Zuniga - no pick

 

Klitschko vs. Ibragimov, I bet all 65,000 I had on 'under 12 rounds'. I haven't really tried to recoup since.

 

Castillo UD
Judah UD
Kirilov SD
Peterson ko6

 

at least you didnt lose all yours on zelenoff atsch

 

I put my little regenerative 50 on Charlie.

 

Lujan vs Castillo
This fight already happened, but I can swear that I was very confident in Lujan winning and had more money on him than anyone else this week, for all the obvious reasons.. JLC shot, much smaller man, Lujan always being a consistently motivated, high output fighter. Watching the fight though, I was nervous after the 2nd round where Lujan got hurt. JLC could have put him out IMO if he just concentrated on landing something huge when Lujan got too wreckless on the inside, but he didn't even seem like he wanted to win that badly. Glad to see him lose this one and finally retire.. who would want Castillo fighting for a title again, getting more brain damage?

Judah vs Clottey
I think Judah will win, but it's a 60/40 match IMO. Judah only has trouble with pressure fighters and superior boxers; Clottey is neither of those. Judah is the superior boxer, has faster hands, better timing/accuracy, much quicker movement, and has the styles advantage in this one too. Both of them don't have good stamina, so that's not a deciding factor in this one like it is in many Judah matchups. I see Judah outboxing Clottey for the majority of the fight from the outside, confusing him with sneaky counters and combination punching, and perhaps even dropping or hurting him at one point in the fight after Clottey throws a combination on the inside and goes back outside with his hands down. Clottey is used to outspeeding his opponents and I think he'll have problems with Judah in this fight because for the first time in his career he's up against a faster, more skilled fighter. The rounds that Clottey will win are the rounds where he outworks Judah by a significant margin, but I don't think there will be more than 3 or 4 of those types of rounds. I'm really interested in seeing what happens in the second half of this fight when they both start getting a bit tired and more sloppy. Both of them have a history of getting dirty and fouling when things aren't going their way, so it might turn into a wild fight in some parts.

Dachinyan vs Kirilov
I just downloaded some of their recent fights and I'll watch them soon so I could make a final pick on this fight, which is a very exciting mix of styles. If it goes the distance, Kirilov will most likely win IMO because of his better workrate and overall boxing skills, but I could see Darchinyan KO'ing him (I could also see Kirilov KO'ing Darchinyan though). Both of them didn't look good recently, but I think Vic looked bad because the Donaire KO loss impacted his confidence in a big way and he still hasn't recovered from it, while Kirilov didn't look as good as usual against Santos because he wasn't very motivated for the fight.

Anthony Peterson vs Jauregui
Jauregui is a very tough, fairly high output fighter with a good chin, but little defense. I picked him to upset Huerta last time and was thinking that he might give Peterson a very tough fight at first, but I'm not so sure after thinking about it some more. It should definitely be the hardest fight of Peterson's career, but I don't think Jauregui will walk through Anthony's punches the way he did against Huerta, he'll fight a slower paced fight. If he does, it will be a very interesting fight, because I see Peterson coming out and throwing a lot of punches from the start of the fight, looking to impress (because he didn't impress so much in his last fight and was disappointed about it). If Peterson blows himself out trying to KO Jauregui in the first half of the fight, he might get caught up in brawling later on with a guy who's more comfortable with it and has some power himself. I believe Anthony might prove to have some chin issues pretty soon as he steps up too, he doesn't seem to relax very well a lot of times against pressure fighters and his defense suffers against them way too often. Jauregui also started showing signs of aging in recent fights. He's an underdog but a pretty live one and this fight should answer some more questions about Peterson.

Demers vs Dionisio Miranda (changed from Zuniga to Miranda, I would have picked Zuniga though)
Miranda has a real chance here of pulling off the upset. He has power and is a pretty tough guy. Demers is obviously more skilled, but he's a light hitter and his chin is shaky, so Miranda will not be afraid to take chances against him and if he catches him with something big, Demers will probably be badly hurt. Still, I heavily favor Demers here to win a wide decision.

 

I lost something like 10,000 on that mother ****er, but seeing the video of him quitting more than made up for that. Did you see his newest video? He got a huge, ugly tattoo of his stripper girlfriend's (who cheated on him) name on his arm. :rofl