NSB PICK EM 2023 #58 - #60: SATURDAY 30th SEPTEMBER 2023

[FinitoxDinamita]

*** yea Barrios! Dam this fight should have been on the card.

[SteveM]

*** yea Barrios! Dam this fight should have been on the card.

hindsight is 20/20

[SteveM]

and next week - TTZ (tim ta zoo) vs FD (Fundora's dad)
Duracell Bunny Josh vs Leigh Wooden
and Golovkin Light vs who?

[Tatabanya]

Well, those of us who picked Lubin to win owe a real lot to those judges...

Note: I can't ascertain if Baltimore picked Opetaia in time, so I gave him the 20 points in any case. PICK EM CREW , please let me know if the decision is correct, or if Baltimore was late with his pick.

Results:

Opetaia KO early
Lubin DEC clear
Alvarez DEC wide

Standings on October 1, 2023 (more or less...)

PLAYER PTS x2 left x3 left x5 left FinitoxDinamita 1490 5 4 1 mlac 1450 5 3 0 SteveM 1440 3 1 2 Mammoth 1420 7 3 0 ruedboy 1340 7 3 0 Tatabanya 1320 7 2 0 SceneBoxer 1280 7 2 0 RJJ-94-02=GOAT 1250 5 2 0 BLASTER1 1220 5 1 0 SUBZER0ED 1210 2 2 2 BigZ44 1200 6 3 2 DamnWicked 1200 5 4 2 ShoulderRoll 1200 4 3 2 NCUppercut 1180 4 0 0 Baltimore 1140 7 0 0 Idunnoshet 1130 7 4 1 Chrismart 1120 7 3 0 Koba 1110 6 3 1 MikeyG 1070 8 3 0 siablo14 990 8 3 0 Ganondorf 780 7 4 2 El-Malo- 670 7 1 2 BobLoblaw 550 5 4 1 Superbee 500 5 0 0 bobbybobberton 440 8 3 0 MulaKO 340 8 4 1 bmorph 330 7 4 2 jas 280 8 4 0 ProblemChild_JakePaul 260 8 4 2 YoungManRumble 230 8 3 0 Fanofreason 220 7 4 2 Eco1 200 8 4 2 mathed 190 8 4 2 BlakBread904 150 7 3 2 Satir 130 7 3 0 ..david.. 80 8 4 2 Ronan Smith 80 8 4 2 hhh1200 60 8 4 2 MusoMeanderings 50 8 4 2 -MEGA- 40 8 4 2 Koolkc107 30 8 4 2 The plunger man 30 8 4 2 alexnation 20 8 3 2 Storm63 20 8 4 2

[ShoulderRoll]

hindsight is 20/20

It was a 5-star fight on BoxRec. Should have been included in the Pick ‘Em.

[FinitoxDinamita]

hindsight is 20/20

Pickem’s choice of fights were always an issue for me but I just stopped complaining at some point and let it be cuz that wasnt gonna change the ass whooping that Im gonna dish out.

Ugas-Barrios and Gassiev-Wallin were supposed to be in play.

[SUBZER0ED]

Well, those of us who picked Lubin to win owe a real lot to those judges...


Results:

Opetaia KO early
Lubin DEC clear
Alvarez DEC wide

True, but Ramos didn't do himself any favors by coasting for most of the second half of the fight.

[SteveM]

It was a 5-star fight on BoxRec. Should have been included in the Pick ‘Em.

don't know if the 5* got taken into account this time (it normally does) but the thing was the Pickem crew (Koba and NCUppercut supported by me, Tata and MikeyG ) didn't wanna do more than three fights but to be honest we could have done 5 or even six this weekend (maybe the Elijah Garcia fight) - its not only five stars but also whether for belts - so the Opetaia and Canelo fights were 2 out of three leaving one out of the Lubin, Ugas and Wallin fights - Lubin was chosen as it looked the most appealing.

Some weeks the Wallin fight would be a shoe-in. Sometimes we get Joshua-Helenius or similar because there's not much else on. My gripe would be with the damn promoters - why is Hearn and the Gassiev fight promoter running fights the same weekend as a Canelo fight?

Edit - last year the Marius-Opetaia fight got left out - kind of oversight as everyone slept on Jai - and I for one raised the question why. So this time I said we can't leave him out again.

Another important criterion that gets looked at is the betting odds - all fights should have the underdog as no worse than +600 in the odds

[FinitoxDinamita]

Why no more than 3 fights per week? Too hard? Scared? lol.

Soft

[SteveM]

True, but Ramos didn't do himself any favors by coasting for most of the second half of the fight.

I think he is hesitant to get hit which is fine if you are a boxer mover but not so much if you are a pressure fighter - I could see that in the luke santamaria fight and that time the judges were kind to him - i mean, he won the fight but not as wide as the scores