Predictions for 2008.

[THE THIRD MAN]

Now these are some things that i can see happening next year. Probably all wrong.
But here goes.
Joe Calzaghe defeats Kessler in a close, (some say hometown) decision, he then makes a much anticipated and overdue match against Roy Jones, who destroys Tito Trinidad in 5 rounds. Kessler fights a returning from eye injury Anthony Mundine, and Tito retires again.
After a tough battle against Ricky Hatton that he wins, Floyd Mayweather fights Mguel Cotto who has just won a war against Shane Mosely, and proved himself a top dog at 147. Mosely puts his frienship with Oscar DLH on hold and they match up in a third fight then both retire. Hatton moves back down to 140 and fights Junior Witter in the UK in front of a huge crowd.
Kelly Pavlik defeats Jermain Taylor in a close fight where both are knocked down once. Straight away a rematch is announced.
Manny Pac wins a great fight against Marco Antonio Barrera where he has to come off the canvas twice early to dominate the latter rounds and win via tko in the 12th. Barrera retires for a short time, Pac makes a match up with lightweight champ Juan Diaz.

Those are the scenarios i have dreamt up. Anyone disagree or wanna add something?

Good dreaming there Eagle, I think Kessler will beat Calzaghe and a rematch will be made immediately for March/April next year. Mayweather will fight Cotto in April/May, Pavlik will beat Taylor and a rematch is made. Jones jr will KO Tito and go to Australia to fight a recovering Mundine.
Hatton will stay at 147lb and fight Judah at some point. Tszyu will come out of retirement and fight Witter at 140lb and win by KO in the first!!! S**t, it was me who was dreaming!

Can u imagine prime KT against the current crop of 140 pounders? it'd be brutal! Malignaggi, and Witter would be Taylor made for Kostya to KTFO.

Malignaggi and Witter are actually taylor made to frustrate the hell out of Tyszu. Look how slow and ponderous he looked against Zab before Zab got careless.

Not sure if Witter or Malignaggi beat a prime Tyszu (malignaggi not enough power, Witter might be too negative) but they'd sure give him fits. He'd be chasing shadows especially against Witter.

Clueless aren't you mate, watch some Kostya Tszyu fights and you'll realise they'd all be dead meat. Witter and Malignaggi pull away after they throw a shot, thats how Tszyu handled so many technically correct "boxers" with that point scoring style, both pro and amateur. Watch him serve up Vernon Forrest in the am's, he has the perfect style to derail boxers, that is why he was so highly regarded in The Ring and p4p's everywhere for years.

Why do you think everyone ducked him for years, Oscar, Mosley, Whitaker....

Whitaker never ever ducked Tszyu i don't know where you heard that from but its incorrect.

Mosley was at Welterweight in 2000 and Tszyu wasn't that big of a name only thing he had really done at that point was stop an ancient Chavez so unless Mosley moved down it wouldn't of happened but there were so many bigger names and bigger money to be made that Tszyu wasn't really worth it at that time.

And its basically the same for Oscar he moved up to Welterweight in 1997 and there were so many big fights to be made that moving down to face Tszyu was not worth it.


I certainly don't class that as being ducked.

I don't know about that ICE, Whitaker was near the end when Tszyu was going around, i'm sure there was no talk of them fighting but DLH and Mosley took a detour for sure, Tszyu had been a IBF champion since 1995 at 140lb and everyone knew of him. (Maybe not the fans but fighters and promoters certainly did) Both DLH and Mosley were at lighter weights than Tszyu in 1995 and 1996. DLH was at 140lb
all through 96' and Mosley was still fighting at Lightweight up until April 1999. I think both of these guys
thought a fight with Tszyu was far to dangerous a prospect at the time and they were probably right.