NSB PICK EM #25 - #27. SATURDAY 3rd APRIL 2021

[PICK EM CREW]

SATURDAY 3rd APRIL 2021


Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UTC+5)


Israil Madrimov vs Emmany Kalombo
10 ROUNDS


and


Murodjon Akhmadaliev vs Ryosuke Iwasa

12 Rounds


and

Dubai, UAE (UTC+4)


Jamel Herring vs Carl Frampton
12 Rounds

BETTING ODDS:

Madrimov: -1100 Kalombo: +570 (x2 on Kalombo)
Akhmadaliev: -850 Iwasa: +475 (x2 on Iwasa)
Herring:: -105 Frampton:: +125

Optional X5 Multiplier only applicable on Kalombo, Iwasa and Frampton

https://www.oddschecker.com/boxing/i...kalombo/winner

https://www.oddschecker.com/boxing/m...e-iwasa/winner

https://www.oddschecker.com/boxing/j...rampton/winner







Ways fighters can win:

DECISION: CLOSE (0-6), CLEAR (7-18), WIDE (19+)
KO: EARLY (1-4), MID (5-8) or LATE (9-12)

Examples of the ways you can state your decision:

PICK EM CREW, Kalombo, Dec, Close x3
PICK EM CREW, IWASA, DEC, CLEAR
PICK EM CREW FRAMPTON KO EARLY X5

If no multiplier is specified in your pick (ie x2, x3) then it will be assumed that no multiplier is being used (x1)
If you wish to pick a Draw result, simply state your Username, both fighter names and DRAW, ie:

PICK EM CREW, HERING FRAMPTON DRAW

NOTES:
-Picking the correct winner earns 20 pts
-Picking the correct method earns 10 pts
-Picking the correct detail is worth 10 pts
-Draws are worth 150 pts. A perfect pick without a multiplier is 40pts.

-CLOSE is 6 or fewer pts difference, 115 - 113 on all three scorecards or closer. CLEAR is 7 - 18 pts difference, between 115 - 113 and 117 - 111 on all three scorecards. WIDE is anything over 18 points or over 117 - 111 average on three scorecards

-If you'd like to change your pick before the fight starts, post in this thread to do so. Ideally tag me so that I don't miss it.

-2X doubles your points and 3X triples your points. Everyone starts with 10 doubles and 6 triples to use throughout the year. If you forget how many you have left, check the leaderboard in the master thread. Every player also has 3 x5 special multipliers which can be only be used on an underdog (+100 or greater) fighter.


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If I could ask one of the mods to kindly sticky this thread and remove anything else Pick Em related except the 2021 masterthread, be greatly appreciated. And thanks once again for your help gentlemen.

-MEGA-, BostonGuy, TBear, jaded, LoadedWraps, bigjavi973

[Citizen Koba]

Just a little note to remind you about the timezones gents, whilst it looks like the Dubai card has been scheduled to fit in with UK viewing times (and is gonna be aired on channel 5 as well as IFLs Youtube) with the Frampton Herring ringwalk at about 10pm BST (maybe 5pm EDT) I'm guessing the Uzbeks give slightly fewer ****s about US and UK scheduling with the DAZN broadcast starting at US - Sat 11:00am EST / UK - Sat 3:00pm and the ringwalks for the pick em fights perhap 4 or 5 hours later... at a guess.

In short, get your picks in - for the Tashkent fights at least - in plenty of time. You have been notified....

I was giving some thought to the McKenna fight too FWIW but for one I didn't know enough about his favoured opponent -Turarov 'Da Khazak Kid' - and for two figured 3 fights was probably enough without needing to go further down the lists. Look forward to seeing if Turarov got any kind of potential though.

[Mammoth]

Who the hell is Emmany Kalombo?

[Tatabanya]

Tatabanya, Madrimov, KO, mid
Tatabanya, Akhmadaliev, KO, mid
Tatabanya, Herring vs Frampton, DRAW

[Tatabanya]

Who the hell is Emmany Kalombo?

One who knocked out fourteen stiffs and gets hit quite a lot.
Now watch me eat another slice of humble pie on Sunday morning...

[Citizen Koba]

Who the hell is Emmany Kalombo?

You probably meant that as a rhetorical question, but since you ask, say hello to 'The General' 14 (14) - 0 - 0


https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/729611







https://www.ringtv.com/586321-new-faces-emmany-kalombo/

(Ring TV)



EMMANY KALOMBO
Age: 28
Hometown: Kinshasa, ********ic Republic of Congo
Weight class: Junior middleweight
Height: 5-foot-9½ (182 cm)
Amateur record: 6-0 (6 knockouts)
Turned pro: 2015
Pro record: 13-0 (13 KOs)
Trainer: Damien Durandt
Manager: Damien Durandt
Promoter: Ayanda Matiti – Xaba Promotions
Instagram: @emmanykalombo

Best night of pro career and why: Kalombo stopped the grizzled veteran Nkulueko Mhlongo in March 2018.

“The fight I think was most impressive was fight number nine,” Kalombo told The Ring. “[Mhlongo] was the South African champion. He’d never been stopped and I stopped him in round five.”

Worst night of pro career and why: Although on paper, Mhlongo is his best win, Kalombo feels there were aspects of that fight he needed to improve.

“The fight was tough. The guy had more experienced and landed the more shots on me,” he explained. “He made me wake up and he gave me a good fight and since that fight, I know how to pick my hands up.”

Next fight: Kalombo closes out the year with a fight against Daniel Lartey at the International Convention Centre, East London, South Africa, next Monday.

“I just want to win the fight beautifully again, stop the guy, the way I always do,” he said. “Make my team and everyone proud.”

Lartey (14-2-1, 12 KOs) turned professional in 2016 and looks a dangerous puncher. The Ghanaian has only been stopped once and has fought at middleweight.

Why he’s a prospect: “The General” is one of the most under-the-radar fighters in boxing today and is potentially a dark horse in the talent-laden junior middleweight division. While still a prospect, at 28, he’s more mature than others.

Kalombo is a very aggressive fighter and his power is very real, stopping all 13 men inside six rounds. Could he be a modern-day John Mugabi?

He moved to South Africa in 2014 under the guidance of cruiserweight contender IIunga Makabu and made his debut the following August. His first three fights were with the late, great Nick Durandt. When he retired, his son Damien took over. The two share a close bond.

Kalombo has sparred with heavyweight Martin Bakole, Makabu, perennial light heavyweight contender Isaac Chilemba, welterweight Thulani Mbenge and stablemate Brandon Thysse.

Kalombo feels his ability is his biggest strength: “I think landing clean shots with nice technique. I have good power.”

Durandt believes Kalombo is a natural and possesses a good boxing I.Q.

“I think he’s a clever boy. He picks things up very quickly. You can teach him something once and he adapts to it immediately,” said the young trainer. “I think that’s his best asset is that he’s a fast learner.

“He has good power; he’s got good speed. He’s got good head movement; he’s good with angles and he’s a good boxer and puncher but I think it’s because of the way he learns so quickly.”

---

Storylines: Kalombo was born and raised in the ********ic Republic of Congo, the second largest country in Africa, after Algeria. He is one of 19 children. Things weren’t easy growing up in the capital.

“It was tough. Kinshasa is not easy, Kinshasa made me tough,” he said. “We did not have much but we were fine.”

As a child, Kalombo played soccer but when he decided he wanted to toughen up, he turned to boxing.

“I wanted people to respect me,” he explained. “Went to school and played soccer, I was a good player. I was a defender; I was the captain.”

Durandt traveled to the DRC to visit Kalombo’s family in Mbuji-Mayi, an hour outside Kinshasa, to meet his family.

“You could see the upbringing was not easy,” said Durandt. “They come from a township outside Kinshasa. It’s a bit of a drive; the roads are very bad to get there. It’s an old home. You could see his mom and dad did their best to raise their kids well and they’re all respectful.”

It’s a tough area where many other boxers including Makabu, Bakole, Kalenga and various mixed martial arts fighters have come from.

Kalombo’s boxing heroes are Canelo Alvarez, Andre Ward and his friend Makabu.

Like many boxers, he has lofty goals and dreams of one day sitting a top the mythical pound-for-pound rankings.

“I think he’s very comfortable at 154. I think he’ll be in that division for a very long time,” said Durandt. “I don’t see an issue with him going to middleweight but I think I’ll let him accomplish what he needs to accomplish first at junior middleweight.

“I want him to win a world title at 154, make one or two defenses, see how it goes, unification. You never know what opens up at that time. The road is slow as long as there’s progress.

“Every fighter wants to win a world title; that’s the ultimate goal. For Emmany it’s even bigger than that. He wants to be in the top-10 pound-for-pound.”

Kalombo has a girlfriend and lives in Johannesburg. He likes to relax and enjoys comedy. His team describes him as a playful character. He also likes watching soccer and supports Juventus because he is a big Cristiano Ronaldo fan.

[Citizen Koba]

Kalombo's best opponent by a margin both per Boxrec and by his own reckoning was Nkululeko Mhlongo



Knocking out Sam Antwi on paper his second best:

[Mammoth]

You probably meant that as a rhetorical question, but since you ask, say hello to 'The General' 14 (14) - 0 - 0


https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/729611



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https://www.******.com/586321-new-faces-emmany-kalombo/

(Ring TV)



EMMANY KALOMBO
Age: 28
Hometown: Kinshasa, ********ic Republic of Congo
Weight class: Junior middleweight
Height: 5-foot-9½ (182 cm)
Amateur record: 6-0 (6 knockouts)
Turned pro: 2015
Pro record: 13-0 (13 KOs)
Trainer: Damien Durandt
Manager: Damien Durandt
Promoter: Ayanda Matiti – Xaba Promotions
Instagram: @emmanykalombo

Best night of pro career and why: Kalombo stopped the grizzled veteran Nkulueko Mhlongo in March 2018.

“The fight I think was most impressive was fight number nine,” Kalombo told The Ring. “[Mhlongo] was the South African champion. He’d never been stopped and I stopped him in round five.”

Worst night of pro career and why: Although on paper, Mhlongo is his best win, Kalombo feels there were aspects of that fight he needed to improve.

“The fight was tough. The guy had more experienced and landed the more shots on me,” he explained. “He made me wake up and he gave me a good fight and since that fight, I know how to pick my hands up.”

Next fight: Kalombo closes out the year with a fight against Daniel Lartey at the International Convention Centre, East London, South Africa, next Monday.

“I just want to win the fight beautifully again, stop the guy, the way I always do,” he said. “Make my team and everyone proud.”

Lartey (14-2-1, 12 KOs) turned professional in 2016 and looks a dangerous puncher. The Ghanaian has only been stopped once and has fought at middleweight.

Why he’s a prospect: “The General” is one of the most under-the-radar fighters in boxing today and is potentially a dark horse in the talent-laden junior middleweight division. While still a prospect, at 28, he’s more mature than others.

Kalombo is a very aggressive fighter and his power is very real, stopping all 13 men inside six rounds. Could he be a modern-day John Mugabi?

He moved to South Africa in 2014 under the guidance of cruiserweight contender IIunga Makabu and made his debut the following August. His first three fights were with the late, great Nick Durandt. When he retired, his son Damien took over. The two share a close bond.

Kalombo has sparred with heavyweight Martin Bakole, Makabu, perennial light heavyweight contender Isaac Chilemba, welterweight Thulani Mbenge and stablemate Brandon Thysse.

Kalombo feels his ability is his biggest strength: “I think landing clean shots with nice technique. I have good power.”

Durandt believes Kalombo is a natural and possesses a good boxing I.Q.

“I think he’s a clever boy. He picks things up very quickly. You can teach him something once and he adapts to it immediately,” said the young trainer. “I think that’s his best asset is that he’s a fast learner.

“He has good power; he’s got good speed. He’s got good head movement; he’s good with angles and he’s a good boxer and puncher but I think it’s because of the way he learns so quickly.”

---

Storylines: Kalombo was born and raised in the ********ic Republic of Congo, the second largest country in Africa, after Algeria. He is one of 19 children. Things weren’t easy growing up in the capital.

“It was tough. Kinshasa is not easy, Kinshasa made me tough,” he said. “We did not have much but we were fine.”

As a child, Kalombo played soccer but when he decided he wanted to toughen up, he turned to boxing.

“I wanted people to respect me,” he explained. “Went to school and played soccer, I was a good player. I was a defender; I was the captain.”

Durandt traveled to the DRC to visit Kalombo’s family in Mbuji-Mayi, an hour outside Kinshasa, to meet his family.

“You could see the upbringing was not easy,” said Durandt. “They come from a township outside Kinshasa. It’s a bit of a drive; the roads are very bad to get there. It’s an old home. You could see his mom and dad did their best to raise their kids well and they’re all respectful.”

It’s a tough area where many other boxers including Makabu, Bakole, Kalenga and various mixed martial arts fighters have come from.

Kalombo’s boxing heroes are Canelo Alvarez, Andre Ward and his friend Makabu.

Like many boxers, he has lofty goals and dreams of one day sitting a top the mythical pound-for-pound rankings.

“I think he’s very comfortable at 154. I think he’ll be in that division for a very long time,” said Durandt. “I don’t see an issue with him going to middleweight but I think I’ll let him accomplish what he needs to accomplish first at junior middleweight.

“I want him to win a world title at 154, make one or two defenses, see how it goes, unification. You never know what opens up at that time. The road is slow as long as there’s progress.

“Every fighter wants to win a world title; that’s the ultimate goal. For Emmany it’s even bigger than that. He wants to be in the top-10 pound-for-pound.”

Kalombo has a girlfriend and lives in Johannesburg. He likes to relax and enjoys comedy. His team describes him as a playful character. He also likes watching soccer and supports Juventus because he is a big Cristiano Ronaldo fan.

Thanks, Koba. I think Madrimov should beat this guy. I'm hoping he's learned from his last fight.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

RJJ,

Madrimov KO Mid

Akhmadaliev KO Mid

Herring Dec Close.

[Chrismart]

Madrimov. KO, Late
Akhmadaliev, KO, Late
Frampton, Decision, Close