What's your prediction record for the big fights of 2007?

Of the following big fights of '07, my record is:

Hopkins over Wright: Correct
Calzaghe over Kessler: Correct
Taylor over Pavlik: INCORRECT
Mayweather over Hatton: Correct
Hatton over Castillo: Correct
Mayweather over De La Hoya: Correct
Cotto over Mosley: Correct
Cotto over Judah: Correct
Juan Diaz over Julio Diaz: Correct
Guzman over Soto: Correct
Pacquaio over Barrera: Correct
Marquez over Barrera: Correct

11-1

Can anyone beat that, and are there any other big fights which I have forgotten about?

 

My prediction record is the mirror opposite of Kauki's.
So, my best guess is that I gotta be like 15-0, or somethng similar.

 

10-0. I have lost a couple of exhibition picks though

 

You picked Hatton over Mayweather didn't you?

 

Hopkins over Wright: Correct
Calzaghe over Kessler: Correct
Taylor over Pavlik: Correct
Mayweather over Hatton: Correct
Hatton over Castillo: Correct
Mayweather over De La Hoya: Incorrect
Cotto over Mosley: Incorrect
Cotto over Judah: Correct
Juan Diaz over Julio Diaz: Correct
Guzman over Soto: Correct
Pacquaio over Barrera: Correct
Marquez over Barrera: Incorrect

9-3

 

Yes, but that was not a sanctioned pick

 

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That way you do get a good record ::

 

Oops, i just copy and pasted Sly's list and changed from correct to incorrect. :doh:

Meant to be Pavlik over Taylor.

 

Everything with you is "tongue in cheek".

 

Only wrong one is probably Calzaghe/Kessler, but since Calzaghe fights like a girl, that doesn´t even count.

 

Hopkins over Wright: didn't make a prediction
Calzaghe over Kessler: INCORRECT
Taylor over Pavlik: CORRECT
Mayweather over Hatton: INCORRECT
Hatton over Castillo: Don't remember
Mayweather over De La Hoya: INCORRECT
Cotto over Mosley: CORRECT
Cotto over Judah: CORRECT
Juan Diaz over Julio Diaz: CORRECT
Guzman over Soto: INCORRECT
Pacquaio over Barrera: CORRECT
Marquez over Barrera: CORRECT


6-4-0-2

 

I just copied/pasted slystaff's post and added correct/incorrect, as well.

 

wow - you did exactly as well as Vegas did. good job!!!

 

Hopkins over Wright: Correct
Calzaghe over Kessler: Incorrect
Taylor over Pavlik: Correct
Mayweather over Hatton: Correct
Hatton over Castillo: Incorrect
Mayweather over De La Hoya: Incorrect
Cotto over Mosley: Correct
Cotto over Judah: Correct
Juan Diaz over Julio Diaz: Incorrect
Guzman over Soto: Incorrect
Pacquaio over Barrera: Correct
Marquez over Barrera: Correct
R. Marquez over Vazquez II Correct (sly ignored this one; i wonder why)
Williams over Margarito: Incorrect (sly ignored this one; i wonder why)
Pavlik over Miranda: Correct
Mosley over Collazo: Correct

10/16

 

This is what I can remember that I picked:

Marquez D 12 Barrera= INCORRECT
Hatton over Castillo= CORRECT
Mayweather over DLH= CORRECT
Mayweather over Hatton= CORRECT
Cotto over Mosley= CORRECT
Pacquiao over Barrera= CORRECT
Taylor over Pavlik= INCORRECT
Collazo over Mosley= INCORRECT
Calzaghe over Kessler= CORRECT
Vargas over Mayorga= INCORRECT
Diaz over Freitas= CORRECT
Cotto over Judah= CORRECT
R. Marquez over Vasquez in rematch= INCORRECT
Margarito over Williams= INCORRECT
Klitschko over Brewster= CORRECT
Clottey over Corrales= CORRECT

10-6

I originally picked Winky to beat Hopkins, but I changed my pick to Hopkins after the weigh-in, seeing how Winky just ate his way up to 170. I won't count that one either way.

 

sly, what were your predictions for Williams/Margarito and Vazquez/Marquez II? Those fights were every bit as big as many of the others you've included. And yet you left em out. I wonder why. And these are two fights it would seem in which the Vegas favored fighter lost - so it's almost without question that you too got these wrong.

 

no, slystaff is to blame.

 

I was reading it wrong. L was listing the result, not his pick.

Edit: nevermind what I said above. He said Taylor over Pavlik.

Now I'm even more confused.

 

I´m sure he picked Williams, since he´s black.

 

I hadn't offered an opinion on either. I had overlooked those fights at the time.

 

I didn't make a prediction but I would have probably have picked Williams, yes, but not because he's black, because of the styles...

 

BULLSHIT!::

Just because you like black fighters doesen't mean you're racist. If FloyD Mayweather was a Serb, I would hug his nuts worse than you do.

 

Like I said before, I don't follow fighters based upon race...it's based upon skills. It so happens that it's usually the black fighters that are the most skillful (Mayweather, Jones, Ali, Hopkins, Robinson, Leonard)...but that's not my fault.

Still I've ALWAYS rooted for Wlad Klitschko as well as Vitali when he was fighting.

I always rooted against Chris Eubank...even when he was fighting Steve Collins and Joe Calzaghe.

I was happier than anyone wihen Wlad destroyed Byrd recently...

 

why?

He was more likeable than Mayweather, and was in more exciting fights.

 

Are you kidding?

He was probably the most annoying motherfucker ever to lace'em up! I couldn't stand him!!

 

Exactky the same picks for me.

 

Let´s be honest you´d swing from Clinton Woods nuts, if he was Serbian. Why does Serbia have no pro boxers? I can´t even think of a Serbian journeyman.

 

Boxrec is your friend. Pick one Gatti. Highest ranked Serbs from Heavyweight to middleweight. :clap: :clap:

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=17002&cat=boxer

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=257554&cat=boxer

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=83285&cat=boxer

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=364295&cat=boxer

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=186227&cat=boxer

 

so the two toughest fights to predict - eveidenced by vegas having gotten it wrong - you failed to make a prediction? sounds likely.