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OK, so as there is all these awards for what happened in 2006, I thought I'd start a thread with things that might happen, and might not happen in 2007.

IN BOXING:
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1) Sam Peter pounds Toney to a pulp in the new year, but Toney still claims that he was the winner and that he was robbed when it went to the cards.
2) Hatton calls out Floyd Mayweather, then goes on to fight someone not quite on that level.
3) Wladimir Klitschko beats any champion that will step in the ring with him, and then gets knocked out by some feather-fisted hopeful who only got the fight at the very last minute because of a drop out by an injured Shannon Briggs...with a severe asthma attack.
4) Roy Jones succesfully defends his NABO title against another boxer of the caliber of Prince Badi Ajamu.
5) Peter Manfredo Jr knocks out Joe Calzaghe in 2 torrid rounds at the Millenium Stadium, before beating Kessler in Copenhagen to unify the division.
6) Bernard Hopkins retires after outpointing Nikolai Valuev in August, then comes out of retirement. Again.
7) and finally.... Floyd Mayweather beats another of the champions to be put before him, yet still receives criticism from some quarters for not looking to KO the opponent after winning every round.

Diamond Dave's fight predictions (and wish list as some of these fights are not signed or in talks) for 2007

1) Toney completely outclasses and outpoints Sam "Shrek" Peter in a one sided UD, coming in for the first time in the heavyweight division in-shape due to new trainer Billy Blanks' taebo workouts and the fact that Billy manually syphens the fat out of Toney's ass in a strange form of oral ass kissing liposuction.

2) Floyd Mayweather UD over Oscar Delahoya as Golden Boy cannot get him to engage and trade punches. Oscar loses but is never once hurt during the fight. Floyd cries and retires but announces his comeback the next day. Oscar goes to work on his new latin-pop record...until he decides to make one more run against Winky Wright in 2008. Winky sits around and does nothing until then because no one good wants to fight him for the right money.

3) Joe Calzaghe murders Peter Manfredo, who according to him is ready and on the level but Jermaine Taylor is not. Calzaghe still avoids a fight with Kessler.

4) Jermaine Taylor murders Sergio Mora with "Bad Intentions", knocking him out in the second round. Mora stays true to his word on the Contender and retires from boxing.

5) In a surprise upset, Klitschko is knocked out when his suspectful chin is found in a lottery punch by an aging Evander Holyfield in the 8th round as W.K. starts to run out of gas from pounding on the iron skull of "The Real Deal". When Larry Merchant asks Holyfield how it felt to punch out such a beautiful man, Evander replies ever so eloquently, as he did after losing to James Toney a couple years back, "Abba-dooba-dabba".

6) Despite the fact that most want to see him fight Joe Calzaghe, Bernard Hopkins gets his heavyweight title shot and runs away with a 12 round clinic against Oleg Maskaev who clearly doesnt know what to do against an opponent who can box like "The Executioner" can.

7) Nicolai Valuev fights another bum but then is expelled from boxing when it is uncovered that he is really the legendary "Abominable Snowman" from the Himalayas, just completely shaven to appear more human. He is then called out to fight in a "Super Heavyweight/Super Human Division" by Shaquille O'neal, who it turns out, is really Bigfoot and has shaved himself in the same manner. The winner gets to be the new spokesmodel for Gillete's Mach X razor, which features 10 blades and a razor head so big it only can work on people with gigantic faces and craniums like Shaq and Nic.

Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito meet in a titanic welterweight showdown that is reminiscent of Hagler and Hearns' legendary fistic nuclear war. It is a toe-to-toe battle the whole fight and a shoe-in for Fight of the Year, culminating in the questionable stoppage of Margarito in round 12...and a rematch lwhich leads into one of the bloodiest and most hard hitting boxing trilogies to date.

9) Proving every great fighter has at least one great fight left in them, Roy Jones Jr. regains the light heavyweight title against Clinton Woods, outpointing him in what is sure to be the last showy, elusive and brilliant performance of the man most believed to be completely shot as a fighter. Jones retires light heavyweight champion.

10) Ricky Hatton surprises everyone by fighting a quality opponent for him in the form of Zab Judah. In a stylistically interesting fight, Hatton doesnt surprise anyone by moving to outwork Judah from the get-go but is outboxed and fatigued by the time the time the ninth round comes to a close. Judah DOES surprise, instead of gassing out early as he did against Mayweather, he boxes smart and doesnt really turn it on until round ten where his power and left handed awkwardness prove too much for a winded Ricky Hatton, who is knocked out for the first time in his career by a huge left hook that catches him as he comes in too slow to smother Zab's punches. Judah redeems himself for his back to back losses to Baldomir and Mayweather...unfortunately when Ricky comes to congratulate him after the match, Zab hits him squayyyyahhhh in the nuuuuuuuuuuuutts. This causes Hatton's corner to storm the ring, at which point Joel Judah comes in and starts slugging people and the Judah camp gets fined again.