Alvarado-Provo: Final predictions

Who's gonna win this war? I've got Provo late. I just think his firepower is gonna be too much for Alvarado to handle for 12 rounds. Provo TKO 9.

 

Provodnikov TKO7 but Alvarado winning would not surprise me. I think Provod will catch him with something big in the middle rounds.

 

I think Provo stops him in 9, myself... Alavarado will probably be ahead when it happens

 

i think its the best fight of the past few months or the rest of the year

 

I'd pick the BYU Cougars by a devastating TKO

 

I think Provo is going to surprisingly get an asswhupping

 

i'll be in attendance for this fight. Denver CO baby! I think Alvarado will need to resist the urge to get into a brawl to appease the hometown fans and use his legs more... in the Rios rematch kind of fashion. If he brawls too much i think he may lose. I am a tad worried about this one. I lean towards Provo late. Hoping for Alvarado to KO him tho.

To be honest tho, I want Alvarado to win, but mostly I jsut want a great KO finish.

 

puig KO2 von miller

 

his name is cuban puig, biggest douche in the major league. and when he strikes out i go chick-chicky boom, chick-chicky boom, chick-chicky boom

 

Surprisingly I'm not that pysched about this fight. Alvarado will have moments early, but provo will wear him down then take him out. The Rios fights took too much from him.

 

Alvarado outboxes Provo over 12 rounds, but will have some moments when he's under the cosh.

 

Those Rios fights though may have taken their toll on Alvarado, leaving dinner served on a plate for Provo to devour.

 

well folks, the alvarado rios fights were two tough battles, but lets not pretend the bradley fight was a picnic for provodnikov. roach was ready to stop it a few times

 

Yeah, thing is Bradley could have made Provo look more dangerous than he actually is by the way he fought that night.

 

provodnikov took more punishment in the bradley fight than alvarado did in the rematch with rios

 

Alvarado isn't a great techincal fighter, but he's technically more sound than Provo. I can see Provo coming unstuck.

 

I don't get the ''Alvarado may be ruined by the Rios fights'' comments. IMO, he took nowhere near the punishemnt for it to happen. Good fight, I can see multiple outcome, the most probable is Alvarado by a fairly close decision even though I'll be rooting hard for Provodnikov.

 

People are full-fledged pansies nowadays. You have a couple tough fights and you're "done for" or "ruined" it's fucking pathetic. Pacquiao is finished now that he's been KO'd. Gimme a fucking break. Alvarado was in a couple tough fights... and Provo was in a tough fight too... fuck me now that i think about it I'm not too chuffed about this matchup either.... it's just a match between two washed up hasbeens that have had their careers demolished by these EPICALLY BRUTAL FIGHTS THEY JUST HAD.

 

Alvarado a pound over at the weigh-in. Yet another reason to go with Provo.

 

:: not at all! This will be an epically brutal fight!!

 

I hear what you're saying. I think people are much too quick to write off boxers after brutal fights. Guys like Cotto for example have moved on when many thought they were done. However the flip side in recent years seems that for every guy that has "recovered" there are two that haven't been the same.

 

Disagreed, I think people confuse a lot of the time being exposed (to an extent) to being ruined. For example, the 3 more popular picks for young fighters being ruine by a terrible beating in recent years are probably Vargas, Reid and Lacy. But on closer inspection, is that really the case ?

I don't think Vargas was ruined by the Tito fight, after all he gave ODLH a very close fight years after. He may have lost a little bit of fearlessness but that's not necessarily a bad thing. People point to the Rivera fight as some kind of proof that he lost his chin. Well, imo, he just never had a good chin, after all, he was floored and wobbly by a single Tito's left hook before being ''ruined''.

Lacy was more of a fraud than anything else. He beat over the hill fighters and bums. Calzaghe fans like to pretend he was some kind of monster but fact is, he never beat anyone good prior to the fight. Don't get me wrong, he lost something after the Joe fight but this was mainly due to the multiple surgeries he had to do on his shoulder than the beating he took.

David Reid of the 3 is probably the best example of a fighter being ruined by a brutal fight. But even in his case, there's a lot of question marks concerning this. Just like Lacy, he was a bum beater and the best fighters he fought prior to Tito were over the hill. More troubling is that he had alway's shown vulnerability in the later rounds. I mean, how much ruined a fighter can be when in his prime he was floored and squeaking by the Kevin Kelley of the world (no not this Kevin Kelley, but the brother of Glen Kelley to whom Roy did the chicken punch ko).

 

I agree with Azazel on those 3 guys

Lacy was just a shitty fighter

Vargas never fought a great puncher until he fought Trinidad (Quartey was no banger at 154 and he hurt Vargas)

Reid was always a vulnerable guy who was walking a tightrope... He was bound to catch a beating sooner or later, as he had fought no one notable in his career and looked VERY shaky on more than one occasion

 

Lacy was always a bum. He just disguised it very well. Had everyone fooled.

Now, regarding tonights affair, Protestnikov need not expect any favours. He does hold a win over Tim Bradley {the only fighter ever to hold wins over Manny Pac and JMM} and that counts for a lot.

 

Another interesting fight, on a lesser scale than Marquez vs Braddles. Kind of split on this one too.

Alvarado is bigger and more skilled, but Nikov is a tough, strong little beast.

For the sake of making a pick I'll go for Nikov KO 9, but I wouldn't be surprised if Alvarado wins a decision, and Provo is not the best finisher.

 

I just can't pick a winner. Either fighter can knock the other out. Alvarado has a slight edge on boxing skills, but Provo proved that even a superior boxer (Bradley) can be in danger with him. It will be pure fireworks. That is for sure...unless Alvarado pulls a Hopkins and decides to box all night.

 

I cant see alvarado boxing until forced , might be to late against Provo but i am taking Alvarado by late TKO , it might be a race of who's face falls apart first

 

Alvarado can box if he has to. I don't think Provo can do anything other than what he does.

I think it can go either way but I typically will pick the fighter with an extra dimension to their game even if it's a limited one.

 

Alvarado looked like shit at the weigh in

 

True, I was actually just leaning more towards Alvarado for reasons Whiskey stated, plus being bigger. But given how fucked and gaunt he looked at the weigh in, Nikov should be able to overpower him.