*attention* nsb pick em 2021 / 2022 winners, announcements and more

[Citizen Koba]

Never knew this was for cash prizes lol

Who's pocket does that come out of?

Good stuff. Might have to partake this year.

Absoluitely you should. More the merrier. We had prizes since about 2019 I think... yeah, that'd be about right. I took over from BroBob in early 2018 and kinda muddled through the first year, then around Xmas 19 once I'd got into the swing of things I kinda drunkenly PMed BPP and asked about the possibility of the Scene providing a prize - not really expecting anything to come of it - and he came through.

Since we only had one fight this year so far there's not really any significant ground to catch up yet so hopefully we'll get a few more joining in too. I'm aiming to get a new masterthread together and the Pick Em thread for the Smith vs Johnson fight up for either tomorrow evening or Tuesday and then it's just a matter of posting your pick(s) in the threads as they come up every week or two.

Best of luck if you do decide to join in anyways, always nice to have some new players.

K

[MikeyG]

Absoluitely you should. More the merrier. We had prizes since about 2019 I think... yeah, that'd be about right. I took over from BroBob in early 2018 and kinda muddled through the first year, then around Xmas 19 once I'd got into the swing of things I kinda drunkenly PMed BPP and asked about the possibility of the Scene providing a prize - not really expecting anything to come of it - and he came through.

Since we only had one fight this year so far there's not really any significant ground to catch up yet so hopefully we'll get a few more joining in too. I'm aiming to get a new masterthread together and the Pick Em thread for the Smith vs Johnson fight up for either tomorrow evening or Tuesday and then it's just a matter of posting your pick(s) in the threads as they come up every week or two.

Best of luck if you do decide to join in anyways, always nice to have some new players.

K

Smith - Johnson fight got cancelled due to Johnson catching COVID. Now it is Smith against replacement Steve Geffrard which I don't know if it is worthy of pick-em (?)

[Tatabanya]

Smith - Johnson fight got cancelled due to Johnson catching COVID. Now it is Smith against replacement Steve Geffrard which I don't know if it is worthy of pick-em (?)

No, it's not. From the little I saw of him, Geffrard has a quick left hook, but gets hit often even by low-level opponents and is not imposing on a physical level. I see Smith knocking him out within four or so.

[Citizen Koba]

Smith - Johnson fight got cancelled due to Johnson catching COVID. Now it is Smith against replacement Steve Geffrard which I don't know if it is worthy of pick-em (?)

Oh ffs... decided to have a week away from the forum so I hadn't been keeping up. Oh well no real surprise I guess. Imagine we'll get a few fights cancelled this next month or two whilst this Omicron thingy works it's way through... hopefully peak and drop fairly fast though. Damn shame, was really looking forward to these two squaring off too, stylses mesh virtually guarantees a barnburner... like someone said it's like the American version Callum Johnson vs the British version of Joe Smith...

But no then. It was actually gonna be a superb weekend of boxing with Yoka vs Bakole and Johnson vs Smith but with em both cancelled I'm not gonna go searching around for some low level tear up to do just for the sake of it. Guess we're gonna be waiting for Gary Russell to crawl out of the cryo-chamber for his 2022 outing against Magsayo on the 22nd.

Potentially there's Tug vs Pasillas and perhaps more notably Makhumudov vs Wach (even though Mariusz is little more than a speed bump these days) but I'm making an effort to stick with title fights or high profile match-ups this year so probably not.

[NC Uppercut]

What are your plans for the money?

Siablo, are you a foodie?

[Tatabanya]

Oh ffs... decided to have a week away from the forum so I hadn't been keeping up. Oh well no real surprise I guess. Imagine we'll get a few fights cancelled this next month or two whilst this Omicron thingy works it's way through... hopefully peak and drop fairly fast though. Damn shame, was really looking forward to these two squaring off too, stylses mesh virtually guarantees a barnburner... like someone said it's like the American version Callum Johnson vs the British version of Joe Smith...

But no then. It was actually gonna be a superb weekend of boxing with Yoka vs Bakole and Johnson vs Smith but with em both cancelled I'm not gonna go searching around for some low level tear up to do just for the sake of it. Guess we're gonna be waiting for Gary Russell to crawl out of the cryo-chamber for his 2022 outing against Magsayo on the 22nd.

Potentially there's Tug vs Pasillas and perhaps more notably Makhumudov vs Wach (even though Mariusz is little more than a speed bump these days) but I'm making an effort to stick with title fights or high profile match-ups this year so probably not.

And Pedraza vs Ramirez ain't gonna happen as well, on February 5.

What a start, 2022.

[siablo14]

Siablo, are you a foodie?

Yes but mostly watching cooking vids on Youtube.

[Tatabanya]

Liam Smith vs Jessie Vargas is also off, the latter caught Covid.

Will there be a Pick Em League this year?

[Citizen Koba]

Liam Smith vs Jessie Vargas is also off, the latter caught Covid.

Will there be a Pick Em League this year?

Fkn pain in the ass tbh but we dealt with this level of cancellations in 2020. My guess is that COVID cases are gonna surge for the next month or two but barring the emergence of another more lethal strain all the signs from the changing tone in the media is that most countries are about looking for the off ramp now... reckon by March or April we'll be mostly back to normal... in fact likely we'll have a catch-up glut then when postponed fights are rescheduled. Just guessing of course but those are the kinda signs Im seeing.

For now we'll just grab any Boxrec 4* fights that crop up, but I might have to see about including the odd interesting lower level one just to keep some momentum going. Much as I'm enjoying the break I don't want this thing to lose steam altogether.