NSB Pick Em 2022 MASTERTHREAD

[Tatabanya]

Mmm. Mick's like a -2500 favourite man, without a title or a high ranking to go alongside it's probably a pass. I do like Cissokho vs Mbenge and Azeez vs Fielding though. And to my mind Rivera vs Martin should be a good un... all much better fights for the Pick Em I think.

It was only a joke!

[Tatabanya]

Got a coupla hours free today anyways - my youngest is off school full of snot with this strep thingy that going round in the UK and I'm ****ed from training yesterday so Ima get the updating done, put up next weeks thread and try to run up a schedule that'll take us to the end of the month.

Coming up this week is going to be a big one - 4 fights including Inoue vs Butler on the 13th.

Warrington vs Lopez
Bud vs Avenesyan
Teo vs Martin
Inoue vs Butler

You could make the case that maybe we should pass on Teo vs Sandor since it ain't for a world title and Teo ain't ranked at 140 but Sandor is top 10 per TBRB and Teo almost certainly belongs there and I'm kinda granting him borrowed status as a former undisputed lightweight.

After that it all gets a bit iffy until the 31st in Tokyo - the traditonal climax of the boxing year and the Pick Em. Ioka vs Franco of course is a must see.

Now I don't really just want to lose momentum and leave things hanging between the 13th and the 31st so I'm probably going to drop in one or two of the second tier fights, I'm thinking maybe two or more of these:
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#30	Souleymane Cissokho	VS	12	#13	Tulani Mbenge	19 1 0	welter
#21	Dan Azeez	VS	12	#20	Rocky Fielding	30 2 0	light heavy
#16	Michel Rivera	VS	12	#34	Frank Martin	16 0 0	light
#62	Hassan Mwakinyo	VS	10	#43	Peter Dobson	16 0 0	super welter

No titles on the line but all 4 star fights per boxrec, no odds on the fights from Nantes or Zanzibar (the Chairman Mao stadium huh? Guessing Beijing paid for that one.. ) but Azeez vs Fielding ain't massively wide odds and the bookies have Rivera vs Martin not far off even.

Mwakinyo vs Dobson is really an afterthought, it would be cool to have 2 fights on the last card of the year but I gotta admit that one is kind of pushing it given how completely Hassan caved against Beefy last time out. Gotta admit IDKSADobson however - the kid's unbeaten but does anyone know if he's any good? Rare to see an unbeaten US prospect so far from home.

Anyone got any preferences or opinions on which of those to include please mnake your thoughts known gents - as always.

Regards

K

There's also Uzcategui vs Shishkin on Dec 17th, that one could be put in...

[MikeyG]

Fights for all fighters participating in this week's Pick em added to playlist at https://cytu.be/r/boxingscenepickem, so if you have time and don't want to wait until official Pick em thread for videos, you have an alternative to watch the fights there

[PICK EM CREW]

There's also Uzcategui vs Shishkin on Dec 17th, that one could be put in...

Sure, that's at least as good as any of the above for my money. Ain't up on Boxrec yet for some reason.

[PICK EM CREW]

It was only a joke!

Ha... and there was me thinking you had a cunning plan to pack in every fight possible so you could spam on hail Mary draw picks. Apologies.

[Tatabanya]

Ha... and there was me thinking you had a cunning plan to pack in every fight possible so you could spam on hail Mary draw picks. Apologies.

Having missed last weekend's draw x3 by a single point, I'm still too much gutted to even think about it again

[Citizen Koba]

Damn... having an utter fail with the updating today, every time I sit down to get on it something else comes up to get in the way. OK - I'm back on parenting duties and bedtime's coming up in a bit so I'm not even gonna try now, but I will get this weeks Pick Em thread up and running at least, that's the easy bit.

[Mammoth]

Got a coupla hours free today anyways - my youngest is off school full of snot with this strep thingy that going round in the UK and I'm ****ed from training yesterday so Ima get the updating done, put up next weeks thread and try to run up a schedule that'll take us to the end of the month.

Coming up this week is going to be a big one - 4 fights including Inoue vs Butler on the 13th.

Warrington vs Lopez
Bud vs Avenesyan
Teo vs Martin
Inoue vs Butler

You could make the case that maybe we should pass on Teo vs Sandor since it ain't for a world title and Teo ain't ranked at 140 but Sandor is top 10 per TBRB and Teo almost certainly belongs there and I'm kinda granting him borrowed status as a former undisputed lightweight.

After that it all gets a bit iffy until the 31st in Tokyo - the traditonal climax of the boxing year and the Pick Em. Ioka vs Franco of course is a must see.

Now I don't really just want to lose momentum and leave things hanging between the 13th and the 31st so I'm probably going to drop in one or two of the second tier fights, I'm thinking maybe two or more of these:
<br>
<br>

#30	Souleymane Cissokho	VS	12	#13	Tulani Mbenge	19 1 0	welter
#21	Dan Azeez	VS	12	#20	Rocky Fielding	30 2 0	light heavy
#16	Michel Rivera	VS	12	#34	Frank Martin	16 0 0	light
#62	Hassan Mwakinyo	VS	10	#43	Peter Dobson	16 0 0	super welter

No titles on the line but all 4 star fights per boxrec, no odds on the fights from Nantes or Zanzibar (the Chairman Mao stadium huh? Guessing Beijing paid for that one.. ) but Azeez vs Fielding ain't massively wide odds and the bookies have Rivera vs Martin not far off even.

Mwakinyo vs Dobson is really an afterthought, it would be cool to have 2 fights on the last card of the year but I gotta admit that one is kind of pushing it given how completely Hassan caved against Beefy last time out. Gotta admit IDKSADobson however - the kid's unbeaten but does anyone know if he's any good? Rare to see an unbeaten US prospect so far from home.

Anyone got any preferences or opinions on which of those to include please mnake your thoughts known gents - as always.

Regards

K

I'd go with Martin-Rivera personally

[ShoulderRoll]

Martin vs Rivera without a doubt should be included.

Cissokho vs Mbenge would be my second choice.

[Citizen Koba]

Martin vs Rivera without a doubt should be included.

Cissokho vs Mbenge would be my second choice.

Probably the order I'd go in too although there's not much to choose between Feilding vs Azeez and Cissokho vs Mbenge - also Uzcategui vs Shishkin... in all three you got a promising unbeaten prospect against a solid former contender who fell short at the top level... and a major step up for all 3 - although you could argue that a faded Mohammedi was nearly as good a win as Bolivita would be for Shishkin.

Given the levels and the lack of titles on the line I don't think we can justify having more than 2 of em in for the 17th - just a shame they ain't spread out a bit more though I guess I can get that folk aren't going to be putting on Boxing shows on Xmas eve.