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Home Boxing MARCH BOXING PREDICTIONS PART 2
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MARCH BOXING PREDICTIONS PART 2

 

boxing imageI am hesitant to make any more predictions, as 2013 is the year of the cancellation.  Testing positive is it’s own annoyance lately, but as confusion reigns over what is and is not legal, one cannot actively aim blame at any party.  There is seriously ignorance on the part of the fighters.  The “injuries” that are cancelling fights, however, are often spurious at best.  Most of the times, I believe the promoters are merely reacting to slow ticket sales, and/or fighters are being encouraged to never enter the ring at less than 100%.  Both of these ideals hurt boxing.  For now, however, I can only assume the following fights will come to fruition.  It has the makings of an exciting month.

Bernard Hopkins vs. Tavoris Cloud
Cloud is actually the one coming off a bigger layoff, and an equally disappointing loss.  These two need each other, because their most recent opponents not only embarrassed them, but then embarrassed themselves in their subsequent fight(s).  Dawson won 9-3 over Hopkins, only to be dominated and stopped by Andre Ward.  Cloud was out-boxed and countered silly against Gabriel Campillo, only to have the Spaniard take a year off, and get brutally KO’d by Sergei Kovalev.  Dawson will not need to fight the winner… as Kovalev is the man, now.  However, the winner will leap ahead of the more blatant pretenders at 175lbs, such as Cleverly, Shumenov, Bellew, and Pascal.  For Hopkins, I don’t think he cares.  He simply wants to go out with a win… trouble is, when he wins, he wants to win again.  Maybe two straight losses are all it takes, at this stage.  Cloud is not who we hoped he’d be, but he’s steady, throws a lot of punches, and won’t be deterred by Hopkins’ tactics.  He also has Don King in his corner, almost assuring that a close one will go his way.  Cloud by MD.

Victor Cayo vs. Breidis Prescott
Maybe Prescott can finally put it together enough to get Amir Khan back in the ring.  Nah, just wishful thinking.  As a Khan fan, I’d like to see all 3 of his losses avenged, but Prescott has never put enough together to warrant that matchup.  Same is true of Cayo, who has lost whenever he’s stepped up to championship level: Maidana, Peterson, and even a shot Nate Campbell.  He’s not stepping there this time, however.  Should be exciting, but I like Cayo by close UD.

Chris Arreola vs. Bermane Stiverne
As a Don King fighter, Stiverne does not see much action, nor has he earned his way to this fight.  If he was struggling against Ray Austin, what do you think a legitimate contender would do to him?  It’s hard to tell with an inactive fighter, because they could be learning with the time off, or merely stagnating.  I think this has the rare ability to be a brawl between US heavyweights, and in the place where they appreciate them most, Southern California.  Arreola will have the crowd.  Put Jack Reiss on this, so an early stoppage is less likely, and you have a candidate for heavyweight fight of the year.  The winner, which will be Arreola by mid round KO, has the prize of losing to a Klitschko for bigger money.  This time, probably Wladimir… this time probably in Germany.

Chris Strait
www.convictedartist.com

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