Hypetrain vs Safe posting.Shybranskyy edition

Imo adding some caveats to a prediction is smart avoiding making a prediction all together is cowardly. There's nothing cowardly in saying 'I don't know'. And the vast majority of correct predictions are correct by chance. Correct for totally different reasons than those on which the prediction were based. I've been right in my predictions but wrong about how the fight actually went down. But at the same time I've been wrong in predictions where I got the pattern of the fight pretty much spot on. Predictions are good for fun but they don't really tell you anything about a person's boxing knowledge. Great trainers like Emanuel Steward were wrong about the outcomes of fights that drunken casuals got right.

One of my favourite boxing pastimes is trying to find prospects who will someday become stars. Obviously you're wrong more often than you're right, since true stars are rare The hype is part of the fun though. I'll never **** on anyone for enjoying boxing. It's the people who spend all their energy hating on certain fighters that are baffling to me

IDK man, I mean I'm a chronic fence sitter and rarely make absolutely definitive picks, at least without adding a few caveats, but that's the nature of the sport, man. Unless it's an absolute mismatch the winner is almost never assured. It's more an acknowledgement of reality than an attempt to look smart. At least, I like to think it is in my case anyway... but then I freely admit I get sh1t wrong all the time.:D Imo adding some caveats to a prediction is smart avoiding making a prediction all together is cowardly.

great post. Most people sit on the fence here, just read any of the thurman v garcia predictions for example 'thurman might win, but dont count garcia out!!!' so they cover their backs and look knowledgable in any scenario. Nothing wrong with jumping on a hype train either, its part of the fun of following boxing to follow someone from an early stage, noone knows for definite how someone is going to handle a step in class. I am not saying jumping on the hypetrain is always bad but doing it prematurely does tend to expose peoples biases. If you think a figher has got the goods it's fine but if you are just hoping he does and just like shabranskyy gets exposed it does make you look foolish.

People like to bash those that quickly get on the hypetrain and when that train gets derailed people never forget you were there. I never saw shybranskyy as anything special even though my nationalist bias tried it's hardest. I don't think people who blindly jump on hypetrains should get much respect but those who never commit to any predictions should get even less respect. At least when you are on that train you put your boxing knowledge to the test. You can get derailed the next time your fighter faces a good challenge.on the other hand we got posters who never make any definitive statements therefore always remaining in that safe space. IDK man, I mean I'm a chronic fence sitter and rarely make absolutely definitive picks, at least without adding a few caveats, but that's the nature of the sport, man. Unless it's an absolute mismatch the winner is almost never assured. It's more an acknowledgement of reality than an attempt to look smart. At least, I like to think it is in my case anyway... but then I freely admit I get sh1t wrong all the time.:D