Predictions for 2022.

[Flickergrab98]

Assuming Canelo takes the belt from Makabu, he’ll obviously vacate the belt. This might prompt a unification fight between Lawrence Okolie and Mairis Briedis for not only the WBA belt, but each other’s belts as well, scheduled to occur sometime late in the year.

Another prediction of mine is that until he gets a title shot against Kambosos, Loma will probably fight Isaac Cruz or Joseph Diaz jr.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Assuming Canelo takes the belt from Makabu, he’ll obviously vacate the belt. This might prompt a unification fight between Lawrence Okolie and Mairis Briedis for not only the WBA belt, but each other’s belts as well, scheduled to occur sometime late in the year.

Another prediction of mine is that until he gets a title shot against Kambosos, Loma will probably fight Isaac Cruz or Joseph Diaz jr.

Okollie and Goulimarin will likely unify in the summer providing both win their upcoming fights.

Okollie is making a voluntary defence at the end of Feb and Goulimarin vs Egorov will likely be on the undercard.

[Rockybigblower]

Usky wins rematch....AJ vs Wilder titled comeback or retirement.

Castano shows Tszyu that's he's not Kostya.

Kambosis beats another of the 4 and continues to mock them on social media.

Canelo fights twice and wins regardless of the opponents.

Fury beats Whyte then sidesteps Usyk for a fight with Joyce...which he loses.

Campbell Hatton wins a regional title.

Nico Ali Walsh gets KTFO this year.

Upset of the year...Ugas outpoints Spence.

[Jsmooth9876]

Crawford knocks Spence out in September 2022
GGG fights Murata and Mungia in 2022
Usyk knocks Joshua flat out cold next fight
Kambosos loses to Loma in March then Loma fights Haney late 2022
Tank never fights a top five guy until 2024

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Upset of the year...Ugas outpoints Spence.

I think this is definitely possible.

[Flickergrab98]

Ivan Baranchyk decides to try his luck at welterweight.
In fact, that just gave me a good matchup idea to happen this year or next year. Branchyk vs Ortiz Jr.

[GhostofDempsey]

Loma vs Kambosos in Australia sometime in the spring in a 50/50 fight

AJ wins rematch with Usyk, leading to a trilogy

Spence defeats Ugas in unification bout

Canelo comes back to 168 to challenge a light heavy at a catch weight, either Smith or Bivol

Fury side steps Whyte and fights either Ortiz or Parker

Jermell Charlo gets rematch and becomes undisputed at 154

Jermall Charlo and Andrade continue to duck one another and fight no-hopers, made with Lara at 160

Tank vs Ryan Garcia in fall of ‘22

Crawford defends against Thurman in the fall, possibly Ortiz sooner

GGG vs Munguia or Eubanks Jr if he beats Murata

JoshTaylor vs Zepeda in summer

Teofimo Lopez debuts at 140 against a no-hoper

[RuleOfTheSpear]

Canelo still p4p #1.
Argentine becomes undisputed at 154.
Thurman beats Crawford in an ugly decision.
Kambosos will beat anyone in 2022.
Someone upsets Gervonta.
GRJ next fight is in 2023 after beating Magsayo.
Akhmadaliev fights Tapales next and beats him.
Inoue leaves the division without fighting Donaire rematch, Rigo, or Casimero.
Choco-Estrada-Rung will continue their merry-go-around and avoid Ioka/Ancajas.

EDIT:
There will be Undisputed Heavyweight Champion

[BustedKnuckles]

I am going to start at the bottom and work up:

The great super flyweights will continue to be the only boxers in the sport with balls and all fight each other again, SSR, Gonzalez, Estrada, Cuadras

Inoue will struggle to find that opponent that really boosts his resume but will win more belts

Valdez will duck the **** out of Stevenson and Stevenson won't get any good fights

Tank will continue to not fight top 5 boxers

Everyone at 135 will duck Haney

Crawford will destroy Taylor and Spence will continue to duck him. If Ortiz wants that smoke he will get murdered too.

Jermell Charlo wins the Castano rematch decisively

Everyone at 160 keeps ducking the 160lb king, Demetrius Andrade

Canelo will stay at 168 and fight Jermall Charlo realizing that the big dogs at 175 are too big a risk

Bivol will dominate Gilbert Ramirez at 175, but the undisputed fight with Beterbiev and Smith wont happen

Usyk will beat AJ in the rematch. Fury will have mental problems, drug problems or price himself out of the undisputed fight which all not happen.

Ha ha.

I was going to jokingly say that all medalists and top contenders from lightweight up would finally decide to start fight eachother. You beat me to it.

Tank, agreed.

No Crawford vs Spence, agreed.

Haney and Andrade don't get meaningful fights, agreed. Duck? Prob not agreed on that. There's no reason not to fight them if you're a fighter who wants to establish dominance without question. But they aren't first on anybody's list either.

Canelo is not fighting Beter or Bivol, and I agree he prob won't ever tough LHW. Never know, tho, but if he does, it won't be them.

Usyk beats AJ, agreed.

No Fury vs Usyk, agreed.

Also:

1. There will be more exhibition matches, which have become dillutive (word?) of real boxing, in my opinion.
2. They keep pushing female boxing, to advance gender equity or whatever, until I skip half of each card.
3. I hope I enjoy the state of boxing more at the end of this year than I do now. There are some good fighters, and hungry young fighters, buy overall it's not going in a good direction with promoters and the prima donna boxers.

[hhh1200]

Spence vs Thurman end of the year, maybe. There's a reason why Thurman is having a tune-up and he doesn't fight more than 1 time per year. Spence ducking continues

Ortiz and Ennis will try to get mando shots at Spence so they will do nothing all year vs. fighting an eliminator against each other. Laughter to hear Crawford duck Ortiz when Robert Garcia is literally on ESNews saying they are passing in that mando.

AJ gets his belts back from the greatest unbeatable heavyweight we have ever seen. Amazing how USA fans react when a fighter has Eastern Euro or Asia by his name on boxrec

Ryan, Tank, Cambos and Haney still won't fight each other. Loma wants the belts now when he sees the opponent doesn't have the same dimensions as Crawford.

LHW is on ice while the fraud figures out a way he can clause a fighter to death to get a belt

Charlo, Benavidez, and Plant still don't fight.

Andrade pieces up the Great Janibek, a guy none of us knew about 8 months ago, but he's one of those Great East Asians.

Jermall beats Brian, no if, and buts this time.

Brook Sparks Khan as a retirement gift.