Current confirmed and discussed top heavyweight fights:

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joshj909
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Current confirmed and discussed top heavyweight fights:

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I put my predictions in bold. Does anyone disagree with these? I find it hard to see any upsets apart from Whyte/Parker but that fight is much closer than the others. Looks like most of them are trying to build a case for a title challenge rather than challenging themselves, though there are also some semi-competitive fights in there.

Joshua v Povetkin
Wilder v Breazeale
Pulev v H.Fury
T.Fury v Pianeta
Miller v Szpilka
Ortiz v Cojanu
Whyte v Parker
Kownacki v Martin
Dimitrenko v Jennings
Takam v Chisora

Also, are there any other fights involving top fighters being discussed? They don't both have to be decent quality as seen by this list...
Enlightened-One
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Re: Current confirmed and discussed top heavyweight fights:

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joshj909 wrote: 18 Jul 2018, 06:58 I put my predictions in bold. Does anyone disagree with these? I find it hard to see any upsets apart from Whyte/Parker but that fight is much closer than the others. Looks like most of them are trying to build a case for a title challenge rather than challenging themselves, though there are also some semi-competitive fights in there.

Joshua v Povetkin
Wilder v Breazeale
Pulev v H.Fury
T.Fury v Pianeta
Miller v Szpilka
Ortiz v Cojanu
Whyte v Parker
Kownacki v Martin
Dimitrenko v Jennings
Takam v Chisora

Also, are there any other fights involving top fighters being discussed? They don't both have to be decent quality as seen by this list...
I agree with most, if not all, of your predictions, but I can't help thinking that Pulev-Fury and Whyte-Parker are 50-50 type bouts, where the hometown fighters could potentially gain an unfair advantage on the scorecards (due to the crowd hysteria unduly influencing the judges).

So Fury can beat Pulev, but will probably drop a decision. And similarly, Parker can beat Whyte, but could also lose by controversial decision.

The outcome of those two fights could go either way and I expect some sort of controversy to occur.

Is the bout that Ortiz is involved in considered a "top heavyweight fight"?
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