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Yep, I embarrassed myself good on this one. Why? Because I did not educate myself on what Calzaghe could really do.

IF I would have gone back and seriously reviewed both mens body of filmed fights, I wouldn't have made such an ass of myself.

I locked on to some very goofy assumptions. (Which I honestly don't do that often.) Talk about lazy. But I really wanted to make Calzaghe out to be a joke.

The joke was on me, and I paid dearly for my bad betting. lol.


I have vowed never to speak badly of Joe again. And I won't.

I'll also probably have very little positive to say about his opponent.

I'll probably have alot. I remember predicting Edwin Rosario over Julio Cesar Chavez by a 7th rd KO. I think I had Gerry Cooney KO'ing Larry Holmes in 4. I picked Tua against Lennox Lewis. Davey Moore against Duran, and even Hagler to stop Leonard.

Worst one for me was when I said Hatton would be to big and strong for Pacman and stop him in round 10.

Hearns over Hagler
Hagler over Leonard
Foreman over Ali
DeLahoya over Pacquiao
Duran over Leonard 2
Arguelo over Pryor
Tate over Weaver

Man I could list 100 of them off the top of my head.

i thought carl froch was a national fighter with
too few assets at top level. thought the opposite
of artur abraham.

Cotto over Pacquiao.

And going back, I didn't expect Bonecrusher to beat Tyson but I was 100% certain I was about to witness a modern day version of Dempsey-Firpo.

BoxBuzz wrote:


Yep, I embarrassed myself good on this one. Why? Because I did not educate myself on what Calzaghe could really do.

IF I would have gone back and seriously reviewed both mens body of filmed fights, I wouldn't have made such an ass of myself.

I locked on to some very goofy assumptions. (Which I honestly don't do that often.) Talk about lazy. But I really wanted to make Calzaghe out to be a joke.

The joke was on me, and I paid dearly for my bad betting. lol.


I have vowed never to speak badly of Joe again. And I won't.

I'll also probably have very little positive to say about his opponent.

me too...

ClivePatrickLyons wrote:Worst one for me was when I said Hatton would be to big and strong for Pacman and stop him in round 10.

and me again...

man wrote:i thought carl froch was a national fighter with
too few assets at top level. thought the opposite
of artur abraham.

once more me...and good night.

Moorer over Tua. Not only that, I expected Moorer to beat Tua up.

Ezzard wrote:

man wrote:i thought carl froch was a national fighter with
too few assets at top level. thought the opposite
of artur abraham.

once more me...and good night.

Add me to that one, I worried for Froch going into that one. I also thought he'd lose wide to Taylor and that'd be the last of Froch at title level.

I've made many bad predictions over the years, although Groves to ko Froch within 2 rounds of the rematch was a particular low point.

BoxBuzz wrote:


Yep, I embarrassed myself good on this one. Why? Because I did not educate myself on what Calzaghe could really do.

IF I would have gone back and seriously reviewed both mens body of filmed fights, I wouldn't have made such an ass of myself.

I locked on to some very goofy assumptions. (Which I honestly don't do that often.) Talk about lazy. But I really wanted to make Calzaghe out to be a joke.

The joke was on me, and I paid dearly for my bad betting. lol.


I have vowed never to speak badly of Joe again. And I won't.

I'll also probably have very little positive to say about his opponent.

I did the same with this fight. I was sick of Joes paper title reign and hoped that limited Lacey could end it.

Pavlik vs Hopkins. How wrong I was.
Marquez vs Mayweather, I thought it would have a least been close!

Well I've got a few notable picks that spectacularly wrong:


1. Beyer would beat Kessler in their 2006 fight.
I had an inflated opinion of Beyer, don't get me wrong I still think that he was a very good fighter, but I thought that (despite the obvious height and reach advantage) Mikael would have been too naive and cumbersome to outpoint the wily old fox that Beyer was.
Upon watching the fight, I realised how great a fighter Kessler was...

- Although I have said it before, but in my defence - there was a poll in the current scene leading up to the fight and the BoxRec majority also thought that Beyer would have beaten him. So I wasn't alone in my misjudgement.


2. Pacquaio would conclusively TKO Juanma Marquez in 2012
It's obvious what happened... But once again, the vast majority fancied a heavy Pacquaio victory over his old rival. And that knockout was cold!


3. Martinez to outpoint Cotto this year
We all looked at Sergio as the number one Middleweight in the world, and it was a big step-up for Miguel, moving up yet another weight and facing a dominant World Champion... But alas, Sergio was shot - Cotto was back to his best.

Sánchez-W. Gómez. Heart over head. I had seen Sánchez fight numerous times, knew his strengths, still went with Bazooka Gómez because he, along with Hagler, Durán, Laciar and Arguello, were my favorite fighters at the time.

giacomino wrote:Sánchez-W. Gómez. Heart over head. I had seen Sánchez fight numerous times, knew his strengths, still went with Bazooka Gómez because he, along with Hagler, Durán, Laciar and Arguello, were my favorite fighters at the time.

There were plenty of experts picking Gomez over Salvador; Wilfredo was on a knockout streak for the ages and Sal hadn't always looked fantastic.

I talked my brother round to the idea that Hatton would get some big body shots into Mayweather and would be too much for him; my brother lost a lot of money on BetFair.

palooka wrote:

giacomino wrote:Sánchez-W. Gómez. Heart over head. I had seen Sánchez fight numerous times, knew his strengths, still went with Bazooka Gómez because he, along with Hagler, Durán, Laciar and Arguello, were my favorite fighters at the time.

There were plenty of experts picking Gomez over Salvador; Wilfredo was on a knockout streak for the ages and Sal hadn't always looked fantastic.

I talked my brother round to the idea that Hatton would get some big body shots into Mayweather and would be too much for him; my brother lost a lot of money on BetFair.

Funny. My brother made $500 on a Mayweather to win bet that night. Also the night I had my first Guinness & I've been on pints of the black stuff ever since.

Does keithmoonhangover post anymore? He was a good poster and funny; he'd have a tale or 2 to tell in this thread.

palooka wrote:Does keithmoonhangover post anymore? He was a good poster and funny; he'd have a tale or 2 to tell in this thread.

Povetkin KOing Wlad and Vitali

I genuinely thought Matt Macklin might be the man to bring the untested GGG crashing down to earth......which in retrospect was somewhat optimistic, bordering on the incompetent. Also recall getting Sam Peter v Vitali K completely the wrong way round.

I had confidently predicted that Razor Ruddock would KO Tyson...in both fights.
I also had Ruddock easily beating Lennox Lewis.
Yep, I was a Ruddock fan :)

cjdragon wrote:I had confidently predicted that Razor Ruddock would KO Tyson...in both fights.
I also had Ruddock easily beating Lennox Lewis.
Yep, I was a Ruddock fan :)

I knew a bunch of people that made the same predictions.I never understood the Ruddock fans being
so confident in their hero.He was fun to watch I just never picked him in the big fights.

tiny_acres wrote:

cjdragon wrote:I had confidently predicted that Razor Ruddock would KO Tyson...in both fights.
I also had Ruddock easily beating Lennox Lewis.
Yep, I was a Ruddock fan :)

I knew a bunch of people that made the same predictions.I never understood the Ruddock fans being
so confident in their hero.He was fun to watch I just never picked him in the big fights.

Yeah it was his one-punch type of power that I found intriguing.
But nope, couldn't win the big fights. Fortunately I never bet any money on him :)

Another one was Troy Dorsey over Jorge Paez. Remember them? :)
I was so ticked when the judges cards were read.