Welcome to another edition of the Head to Head Pick'em League.
Week 9 is upon us! The picks are top heavy, with some pretty obscure fights rounding out the bottom of the picks. Good luck, you're going to need it!
League is open to all, and you may enter at any point during the season.
Pick'em method:
1. Select 5 fights from a list of 7 fights.
2. Select a winner, round fight will end, and method of victory.
3. Rank all 5 fights from most confident, to least confident.
Here are the fights you will be picking from for Week #9 (fights in bold, are "must pick" fights):
Firat Arslan 47-8-3 vs. Kevin lerena 24-1, 12r, Cruiser
Emre Cukur 14-0 vs. Davide Faraci 14-0, 10r, S. Middle
Kid Galahad 26-1 vs. Claudio Marrero 24-3, 12r, S. Feather
Kell Brook 38-2 vs. Mark DeLuca 24-1, 10r, S. Welter
Terri Harper 9-0 vs. Eva Wahlstrom 23-1-2, 10r, Women's S. Feather
Gary Russell Jr. 30-1 vs. Tugstsogt Nyambayar 11-0, 12r, Feather
Guillermo Rigondeaux 19-1 vs. Liborio Solis 30-5-1, 12r, Bantam
Picks are due by Friday 7pm (Central Time)
Last week's Results
Jupiter82 (8) Don’t think, feel (10)
Edgeobey (8) NolaMurph (0)
Chico (15) saad1000 (17) - I continue to be snake bit. I'm probably a top 5 scorer in the league, and I have 1 whole win over 9 weeks to show for it.
MaXiao (6) johnny_o (10)
4500X (8) asimonson (1)
DiegoCosta19 (8) Colt735 (10)
Bye Week: TMF, ironlung237
I'll post the actual scoring breakdown later, along with the updated standings.
Standings
6-1 Edgeobey
5-2 saad1000
4-2 ironlung237
4-3 Jupiter82
3-2-2 Nola Murph
4-4 Colt735
4-4 johnny_o
2-2-2 DiegoCosta19
2-3-2 4500X
3-4 Don't think, feel
2-3-1 Tommy Morrison fan (2-2-1)
1-5 El Chico Carmona
0-4-3 MaXiao
0-1 asimonson
This week’s matchups:
Edgeobey (6-1) vs. DiegoCosta19 (2-2-2)
Edgeobey
1) Brook KO
2) Galahad UD
3) Rigo KO
4) Lerena UD
5) Harper UD
DiegoCosta19
1) Kevin Lerena KO/TKO6
2) Kell Brook KO/TKO3
3) Kid Galahad D
4) Guillermo Rigondeaux KO/TKO3
5) Tugstsogt Nyambayar D
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6) Terri Harper D
saad1000 (5-2) vs. Don’t think, feel (3-4)
saad1000
1. Galahad by decision
2. Rigondeaux decision
3. Brook by decision
4. Lerena KO10
5. Russell by decision6. Cukur by decision
7. Harper by decision
Don't think, feel
a – GRJ UD
b – Brook UD
c – Galahad UD
d – Rigo MD
e – Lerena TKO 4
(f) – Wahlstrom UD
(g) – Cukur UD
NolaMurph (3-2-2) vs. Tommy Morrison fan (2-3-1)
NolaMurph
Kid Galahad – UD 12
Gary Russell Jr. – UD 12
Kell Brook – KO 7
Guillermo Rigondeaux – KO 10
Davide Faraci – UD 10
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Kevin lerena – UD 12
Harper – UD
TMF
1. Nyambayar UD
2. Galahad UD
3. Rigondeaux KO8
4. Brook UD
5. Wahlstrom UD6. Lerena KO10
7. Faraci UD
Jupiter82 (4-3) vs. johnny_o (4-4)
Jupiter82
Lerena KO4
Brook KO9
Russell Jr. Decision
Galahad Decision
Rigondeaux Decision
johnny_o
1. Rigondeaux decision
2. Brook decision
3. Lerena decision
4. Nyambayar decision
5. Marrero decision
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6. Harper decision
7. Faraci in 7
Colt735 (4-4) vs. MaXiao (0-4-3)
Colt735
1) Brook KO5
2) Russell Jr. KO8
3) Harper decision
4) Rigondeaux decision
5) Galahad decision6) Lerena decision
7) Faraci decision
MaXiao
1 Harper decision
2 Galahad decision
3 Brook KO 6
4 Rigondeaux KO 8
5 Tug KO 12Lerena KO 10
Cuker decision
Chico (1-5) vs. 4500X (2-3-2)
Chico
1. Brook-KO8
2. Rigo-Dec
3. Kid Galahad-Dec
4. King Tug-Dec
5. Lerena-Dec
Davide Faraci-Dec
4500X
1) Brook KO4
2) Galahad UD
3) Solis TKO9
4) King Tug SD
5) Lerena KO11
6) Cukur SD
asimonson (0-1) vs. Dave_Smith (0-0)
asimonson
1. Guillermo Rigondeaux UD12
2. Gary Russell Jr. KO10
3. Kid Galahad UD12
4. Kell Brook UD10
5. Davide Faraci UD10
Dave_Smith
1) Russell Jr. KO9
2) Brook KO5
3) Galahad UD
4) Rigondeaux KO6
5) Harper UD
Playoffs update
The plan has always been to have it be a 12 week season, so the playoffs are right around the corner.
For this edition of the playoffs, everyone will make it in, and be seeded according to the regular season standings. This will likely result in a bye week in the opening round for the top 2 or 3 players in the standings.
The playoffs will remain a lose and go home knockout tournament, cause when it's all said and done "There can be only one!"
Next season, I will likely impose a cutoff on the number of players that make the playoffs, with that number to be determined based on the number of participants.