The light at the end of the tunnel is here...

But anyway, back to the fucking point..... ::

Best 6 weeks or so of boxing for a good couple of years, IMO. Viva Boxing!:hammert::hammert:

 

The approach that leaves no ambiguity is to format dates as, DDMMYY, for example, 02NOV2010, so that there's no way to confuse the date and month.

Sorting, at least programmatically, shouldn't be a consideration since dates are generally stored as something similar to a julian date, and are sorted accordingly.

 

Sorting data in Excel for example...

 

Month/Day makes way more sense for several reasons that have been suggested.

 

You're American...you'd probably also say that it makes more sense for GRIDIRON to be called Football than for the other sport that actually sees the players using their feet 95% of the time.

Day/Month makes sense because the first is a component of the second which is itself a component of the third when it is used (Year). It's the most intuitive form that a date string can have...

 

In order for the way we all talk to correspond with what's convenient for the purposes of Librarian's filing system? :: Yeah that's makes way more fucking sense!

This is NOT the explanation, it's an arbitrary American Idiosyncrasy.

 

In the us, it is more common to hear 'November 3rd' than it is to hear 'the 3rd of November.'

Because it is so common to be referring to a month that isn't the current month, I prefer it the american way. It's not arbitrary, just different.

 

OK cool, lets not nuke each other about it.

 

Aw man who cares? You guys turned thread into :shit::flip:

 

Where else was it gonna go? ::

'Yas, a good month for boxing! Brilliant.'

'Agreed, excellent, about time'

'Yeah this is indeed good'.

'Really good'.

'Yup, William-Martinez especially will be interesting'

'Then we're all agreed'

'cool'.

 

Good point haha. But you guys made a boring thread and made it mooore boring. I'll post picks later, that should help.

 

A pick sweep for the up coming fights seems a good idea.:shadow:

 

Is the Maidana/Khan fight on December 11, the 11th of December, November 12, or the 12th of November?

 

Lopez by TKO As much as I would love to see Rafa win, I can't see him being able to keep the younger, bigger man from landing consistently on him. Unless Juanma gets wreckless and Marquez capitalizes :crafty:

Johnson UD Unless the weight loss dramatically affects the old man, he should be able to outwork Green. Johnson outwills him.

Matthyse KO Not familiar with him but he seems like a banger though, hopefully he wins and some more new blood is established at 140

Robert Guerrero - Vicente Escobedo I just hope someone gets KTFO, not a fan of either of these fellas

Manny Pacquiao TKO 10 Fuck Margarito, I hope he gets embarassed and humiliated. All this bad press on Manny being distracted feels a bit too contrived.

Paul Williams UD I must say this one is 50/50. The first fight was so close, but now with full training camps and experience with one another I feel Paul has more to benefit, but Ill be rooting for Sergio.

Carl Froch UD Frochs chin is pretty solid, he should be able to outwork Abraham. Really hyped for this one.

Andre Ward UD

Juan Manuel Marquez late on cuts JMM has slowed down but it'll just make the fight a bit closer than it would have been a few years ago, I expect a great fight though.

Andre Berto UD I hate Berto
Celestino Caballero KO 7 should light Shitzau up at some point, he's game but he's just not good.

Amir Khan UD Id give Maidana a better chance if he hooked up with a better trainer but Freddy should have Amir more than ready

Victor Ortiz TKO 11 Close early, but Ortiz takes over late. too much power

Yonnhy Perez UD
Abner Mares KO 8 to set up another rematch

Jean Pascal-Bernard Hopkins Pascal UD, please rid us of B-Hop once and for all. A KO would call for a celebration.
Erik Morales TKO 10 Bring on Marquez:shadow:

 

hno:

 

Not gonna force a pick in them all, but.....

Marquez
Johnson
Pac (in a close, bruising one)
Martinez
Abrahams
Ward
Marquez (SD)
Berto
Maidana
Peterson
Hopkins

 

:giggle:

Tis a tad strange indeed.

 

Also Haye to smash Harrison inside 4 rounds

 

yeah, it makes no sense at all.

 

Ripper you left off Jones vs Soto from the list. Jones looks good so far, just wish that Top Rank would have matched him with a real 147lber.

 

Isn't it Soto-Karass?

 

Yeah, hes a cool guy. It's too bad he has been hand picked for this execution.

 

This coming weekend I like Lopez, and Zab to win by stoppages, and Johnson and Escebedo to win by decision.

Next week I think Manny will light up the cheating sloth and stop him in 10.

I think P-Will will beat Martinez in the rematch by UD, but I hope I'm wrong.

Then on the 27th I like Marquez to stop Kat late, Abraham to stop Froch late, and Berto and Ward will dominate Herndandez and Bika to wide UD wins.

Dec. 11 I hope I'm wrong but I think Khan will UD Maidana. And Ortiz will ice Peterson.

Dec. 18th I think Pascal will out-energy ole man winter to a UD.

 

I suspect that Mike Jones could turn into this generation's Vernon Forrest. A guy none of the big names at 147 will want to face.

 

I've never seen or really heard of Jones. Is he the goods? Guess it's time to hit YouTube.

 

yup soto karass is a legit welterweight. dont know exactly what he was talking about

 

Know what? Im gonna pick Margarito just so I look super-duper smart on the off chance he wins. I think his size and willingness to let his hands go under fire gives him a fair chance (25%+ approx).

Margarito SD 12.

 

This is a near year 2000 like passage of good fights. Get loose! Get Loose!artie:

 

He is much smaller than Jones.