Post by Tractorpull on Sept 19, 2019 9:53:05 GMT -6
TESS VALMORE
Once again I present this month’s edition of my much ridiculed predictions. As usual it is littered with cheap shots, unjustified criticism and unflattering comments. I didn’t do very well in last month’s predictions going 35-20 bringing my total to 1907-566 which is still 77% correct
LOVATO/LARSEN After losing the title to Bella Thorne in last month’s PPV, Lovato has record of 7-1 for the year in conventional fights. Larson is 5-1 for year having lost her last fight to Margot Robbie. Lovato has vastly more experience and has fought most of the top bantams. The kicker here is that Larson has a four inch height advantage. Boxing World has Lovato ranked sixth and Larson fiftteenth. I’m going to take a chance on height, but won’t be shocked if I’m wrong. I go with Larson
V.HUDGENS/KREUK Hudgens comes into this bout having lost her last two to Lilly Collins and Michelle Williams. She is 7-4 for the year Kreuk is 1-5 for the year and is definitely on the downside. Her last winning year was 2015, Hudgens will win
BEER/GAGA Beer is a newbie with a 1-1 record. She lost her first when she was mismatched with Lavigne. She won her second fight over Tisdale who is in the same category as Alba, Frege and Grande. Gaga has been around for nine years, but only had fifteen bouts, winning four. She has lost her last ten with her last win being in 2012. A good choice for Beer. She will win
S.GOMEZ/N.SCOTT Scott has a career record of 4-2 with no impressive wins and one of her losses being to Ginny Gardner. Gomez, a veteran is 4-1 for the year. My BFF. Cassandra Lynn, says Bazz made a big mistake when he traded her for Brenda Song. The result of this bout will prove my BFF right. Gomez will have her hand lifted in victory
M.KELLY/DUSHKU Kelly seems to have moved to the downside after the 2016 season. Since then, she 9-9 and 3-2 for the year. This year her losses were to Lovato and Robbie and one of her wins was over Winnick Dushku is a Hall Of Fame member and a twelve time unified champion in the flyweights and later the bantams Now 39, she has fought only twice in each of the last four years and has lost her last four. The two fought once before back in 2012 with Dushku winning. She was in her prime then. Kelly also 39 really needs to win this fight.
This is a tough one, I’m going to take a chance on Kelly, but I’m not betting on it
DOBREV/OLSEN Dobrev has been on a roll winning eleven of her last twelve conventional bouts. Her lone loss was to Lovato in a title fight. Olsen is 3-3 for the year in conventional bouts. Two of her losses were to top ten bantams. This should be a good fight. I think Dobrev will come out on top
ALDRIDGE/SWANEPOEL Aldridge comes in at 3-3 for the year. She lost her first three and won her next three. The only ranked fighter she fought was DiDonato and she lost. Swanepoel is a veteran with a 18-33 record. She’s the kind of fighter who might be called a gate keeper if she had someone to keep the gate for. She has now lost four of her last five. I have to take a chance of Aldridge
LEVESQUE/BECKY G According to the Archives this will be Levesque’s first FCBA fight. She’s had three bouts in the BBU winning them all According to IMDB, Becky G’s real name is Rebecca Gomez. She first fight was at the Doll House earlier this year. She lost. I don’t have a clue so I will go with the one who has won a bout. That’s Levesque
S.MITCHELL/MICHALKA Mitchell has really hit a rough patch. Although she won her last bout, she has lost seven of her last eight. To her credit she fights a top schedule. Michalka hasn’t been very active over the last couple years and while having a 31-16 record has lost four of her last five. Mitchell will followup on her last bout with another win
LAVIGNE/C.MENDES Mendes is coming off a loss to Stewart in a title fight. After that loss she is now 2-4 for the year. She has lost five of her last seven. This will be Lavigne’s 13th bout of the year with her record being 9-3 over decent opposition. I’m not a fan of Lavigne, but she deserves her Boxing World ranking of five in the flyweights. The two have fought once before with Mendes coming out on top. That won’t happen in this fight and knowing Lavigne’s post fight antics, they won’t be pretty
ATWELL/ROSE Atwell fights in both the BBU and The FCBA and also JMDD
In the last three years she is 3-3 in conventional FCBA fights with wins over Winstead and Palicki. Rose is a newbie with a 2-1 record. She’s not ready for Atwell who will win by a KO (doesn’t everyone?)
HOLMES/THERON The GOAT launching a new campaign in the cougars. I predicted this bout in my July predictions. My opinion hasn’t changed. Theron will win the first bout in her new division
KLOSS/BARROS I don’t know what has happened to Kloss. She came out of a New Blood tournament and quickly made into the top ten and rising to the number five welter. Late last year, something changed. Since then she has lost five of her last seven and four of her last five and dropped out of the top ten. Boxing World now has her ranked at fifteen and that is generous because she a welter. Barros is a newbie with a 4-2 record for this year. She has won her last four although while her opponents were not impressive, they were OK for a fighter of he experience. This is a must fight for Kloss. She simply has to win or drop out of the top twenty. I think she will. Kloss wins
LAWRENCE/NOLIN Lawrence is ranked at seven in the welters by Boxing World
Only in the welters could a fighter who has lost nine of her last fifteen make it into the top ten. She’s a welter who loses to lightweights and bantams. My total dislike of Nolin is well known. I’m delighted to report that the dirtiest fighter in the history of the FCBA has lost eleven of her last thirteen, beating only Baldwin in the last three years. If Lawrence can lose to a bantam, she can probably lose to Nolin, but I have to go with Lawrence to uphold civilization
PIETERSE/MCCARTHY Pieterse is an average fighter, who has barely a winning record if you discount her fight in JMD. Despite our near brawls at the Asylum, Jenny is one of my favorite people. She is hilarious to the delight of Cassandra Lynn and me. Where Pieterse is 23, Mac will be 47. Yes Mac is old enough to be
Sasha’s mother. Mac is 2-4 for the year and despite her advanced age, she still fights decent opponents. I’m going to throw reason out the door and predict that Jenny will win simply because I want her to
ROHRBACH/REFAELI Rohrbach is a decent lightweight who has risen to 18 in Boxing Worlds lightweight rankings. She cracked to top ten a couple years ago but in the last two years, her record is barely above water. She is 3-2 this year but one of her losses to Kostek, a top welter, Refaeli, having lost management, is in the twilight of her career. She has lost seven of her last eight and the last five. A loss by Rohrbach will be her ticket out of the top twenty. It won’t happen. Rohrbach will win
M.FOX/CHUNG THIS IS A BLATANT MISMATCH Chung must have a death wish. She’s less than an average fighter with a 3-13 record and lost eight of her last nine and she wants to take on Fox at precisely the wrong time. Fox having lost her last two, is not going to be in any mood to go easy on her opponent. This could get bloody before Fox finishes Chung off
REN/JENNER As I have said before Ren is unpredictable. This year she has beaten Sagra in one bout out of two, but lost to Lynch, a bantam. She’s 6-3 for the year. Jenner is in the top five lightweights. Jenner is having a sensational year being 7-1, her only loss being to Winstead who she has also beaten. The two have fought twice before, each winning one. Jenner will take the rubber match. And yes, she still haunts the pages of the Daily Mail almost daily
AGDAL/HOLZKEN THIS IS A MISMATCH Agdal is an average lightweight, who beats lesser lightweight but coughs it up against good opponents as her record over the last two years bears witness. Luckily for Agdal, Holzken is not a not a top lightweight and that is an overstatement. She has had only one FCBA fight which she lost to someone known as Chase Carter and that bout happens to be Carter’s only win. Agdal will pad her record
H.FERGUSON/HILBERT THIS IS MISMATCH Hilbert comes into this bout with a 5-1 record with wins over nobodies. She is a pupil on the New Blood tournaments. I guess she needs to get her feet wet, but she is choosing the wrong opponent to do it. Ferguson is preoccupied with JMDD a great deal of the time, but she is 4-0 in conventional fights this year. A blonde will win this bout and it won’t be Hilbert
LOPILATO/MCADAMS Lopilato has a 21-6 record, but is only ranked at 29 by Boxing World That ranking is justified. If you examine her record of wins, her opponents have been tier two fighters. McAdams, now 41, the four time champion seems to be trending to the downside. She’s 5-4 over the last two years, but lost three of her last five. Lopilato has a chance to boost her ranking by beating a name although the result may tell us more about McAdams than Lopilato I’ll take a chance on McAdams.
FREGE/SPIRIDAKOS Frege shocked the boxing world by winning her bout in the August PPV and virtually ending the career if Scherzinger. Spiridakos is an average fighter, who has lost five of her last seven although wInning her last two.
Any average fighter should be able to beat Frege. Spiridakos will end Frege winning streak at one.
WILDE/D.JOHNSON Wilde was once a ranked bantam. Those days are over as at the age of 35 she is definitely on the downside. In each of the last three years she has gone 1-3 meaning she has lost nine of her last twelve. She did beat Chastain in her last bout. Johnson is not on the downside since she has never had an upside. She has had one bout this year which she won. Prior to that her last win was in 2016. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that she could win this fight. Possible. not probable. I have to go with Wilde
HALE/L.COLLINS Collins comes into this fight with a 7-2 record after beating newbie in the VIX/Holloway stable war She hasn’t lost more than two in any year since her rookie year of 2013. She’s ranked at three in the flyweights.
Hale got off to a horrible start losing her first nine and then turned her career around and won the title in 2016. Now, she has slipped and has lost eight of her last twelve. I have to go with Collins
BENSON/MCNAMARA Benson has had a losing record ove the last three years. Recently, she has lost three of her last four conventional bouts. Management has had her fighting at JMD, That hasn’t gone well either as she has lost all four of her bouts in the category. PLP seems to be deteriorating. McNamara had one bout in each of 2017 and 2018. She has had two bouts this year which she won. Benson has beaten some good fighters, has vastly more experience, and is actually younger than McNamara. That spells a win for Benson
DiDONATO/GONZALES DiDonato is 8-1 for the year in conventional bouts. She has quickly risen into the top ten, ranking six in Boxing World and five in Tractorpull. Gonzales is now 11-12 after her upset of Strahovski in the last PPV. To be honest, relations between Gonzales management and Tractorpull are not especially warm, but I have nothing against Gonzales. If I pick DiDonato to win it will be assumed that I don’t like Gonzales. I don’t even know her. So forget that song and dance because I think DiDonato will win
PRINSLOO/REGAN Regan is now 3-2 for the year after beating Freeman on a FNL card. Prinsloo is 4-3 after losing to Mandy Moore in August Prinsloo is in the Tractorpull top ten. Regan isn’t. Regan is in Boxing Worlds top and Prinsloo isn’t. After this bout, one will be in both. I think it will be Prinsloo
RHODA/KOSTEK RHODA is 6-1 for the year with her one loss being to Righetti. Kostek is 3-2 for the year with one loss being to Righetti and the other to Rhoda. Rhoda has more experience, but most importantly she has a three inch height advantage which going to be hard for Kostek to overcome. Rhoda will win again
HENSTRIDGE/MEESTER Henstridge has a winning record, but has fallen on hard times losing five of six this year, Meester has done worse, losing eight of her last nine. One of those losses was to Henstridge. Meester will lose to Henstridge again
SCODELARIO/LILLY This is a big bantam bout. The winner should be in line for a title fight Scodelario is 5-2 for the year. Lilly, who turned forty this month, is 7-1 for the year after losing to Kosarin in August. The two have fought twice before with each winning one, Lily’s win being this year. This will be Lilly’s 93rd fight. One more win will guarantee she will enter the Hall Of Fame when she reaches 100 fights. I think Lilly will win
AMBROSIO/YUSTMAN This should be a good fight. Ambrosio has been far more active going 5-3 in the FCBA Those three losses happened to be her last three bouts. Yustman is 2-1 with her loss being to Kendall Jenner in her last fight. I think this is 50/50. I’ve been a Yustman supporter for a long time. I think she will win
WINSTEAD/HOSK This will be Winstead’s 99th fight. She is short of wins to enter the Hall as for years she has fought no one but the best. This year she is 2-4 with her losses being to Righetti, Ambrosio, Jenner and Sagra. Her wins were over Jenner and Palicki. Hosk has only had four fights and has won only one. I don’t know if Winstead is moving to the downside. She has had losing years before, but I have to go with Mary Elizabeth to win
D.R.RUSSELL/EISLEY Russell is a newcomer who has an unimpressive 2-3 record, but she has lost to good fighters. This may be a case of being pushed to fast. Eisley was introduced into the FCBA by the Wiz at the Asylum. That was in January. She lost to Reinhart. Eisley got his fight because Russell needs a win. Russell will get it
K.STEWART/E.WATSON For the flyweight title. Watson is 6-2 for the year, but one of those losses was to Stewart. That’s probably how she got this title shot, but to be honest Stewart has also lost to Watson Stewart who normally fights easy opponents. had a run at beating some pretty good opposition. It should be noted that you should’t invite Stewart and me to the same party. I think Watson will take the rubber match and the title Call that wishful thinking
B.THORNE/KOSARIN For the bantam title Thorne has a 6-3 record in conventional fights for the year and that isn’t bad considering the schedule of top opponents she has fought. One of those losses was to Ren who is a top lightweight Kosarin’s 4-2 record is also pretty good considering one of her losses was to Kendall Jenner and she has the scalps of Lilly and Scodelario dangling from her belt. The two have fought once before with Kosarin winning. I think Kosarin will make Thorne’s first defense her last. That said, I will remind readers what while my record of predicting fights is pretty good, my record of predicting title fights is not Please don’t bet on this
SWIFT/SAGRA I have always thought that Swift was an unlikely champion and here she is making her fourth defense reeling off wins over Perry, Strahovski and Ren. Sagra is 4-2 for the year, but that’s good enough to make her the number one contender in both polls. I can’t shake my opinion of Swift as a champions as irrational as it is. I go with Sagra
RIGHETTI/MOORE Righetti continues to march on. I will keep predicting she will win until she doesn’t
The addition of Levesque brings the debuts this year to 62
Once again I present this month’s edition of my much ridiculed predictions. As usual it is littered with cheap shots, unjustified criticism and unflattering comments. I didn’t do very well in last month’s predictions going 35-20 bringing my total to 1907-566 which is still 77% correct
LOVATO/LARSEN After losing the title to Bella Thorne in last month’s PPV, Lovato has record of 7-1 for the year in conventional fights. Larson is 5-1 for year having lost her last fight to Margot Robbie. Lovato has vastly more experience and has fought most of the top bantams. The kicker here is that Larson has a four inch height advantage. Boxing World has Lovato ranked sixth and Larson fiftteenth. I’m going to take a chance on height, but won’t be shocked if I’m wrong. I go with Larson
V.HUDGENS/KREUK Hudgens comes into this bout having lost her last two to Lilly Collins and Michelle Williams. She is 7-4 for the year Kreuk is 1-5 for the year and is definitely on the downside. Her last winning year was 2015, Hudgens will win
BEER/GAGA Beer is a newbie with a 1-1 record. She lost her first when she was mismatched with Lavigne. She won her second fight over Tisdale who is in the same category as Alba, Frege and Grande. Gaga has been around for nine years, but only had fifteen bouts, winning four. She has lost her last ten with her last win being in 2012. A good choice for Beer. She will win
S.GOMEZ/N.SCOTT Scott has a career record of 4-2 with no impressive wins and one of her losses being to Ginny Gardner. Gomez, a veteran is 4-1 for the year. My BFF. Cassandra Lynn, says Bazz made a big mistake when he traded her for Brenda Song. The result of this bout will prove my BFF right. Gomez will have her hand lifted in victory
M.KELLY/DUSHKU Kelly seems to have moved to the downside after the 2016 season. Since then, she 9-9 and 3-2 for the year. This year her losses were to Lovato and Robbie and one of her wins was over Winnick Dushku is a Hall Of Fame member and a twelve time unified champion in the flyweights and later the bantams Now 39, she has fought only twice in each of the last four years and has lost her last four. The two fought once before back in 2012 with Dushku winning. She was in her prime then. Kelly also 39 really needs to win this fight.
This is a tough one, I’m going to take a chance on Kelly, but I’m not betting on it
DOBREV/OLSEN Dobrev has been on a roll winning eleven of her last twelve conventional bouts. Her lone loss was to Lovato in a title fight. Olsen is 3-3 for the year in conventional bouts. Two of her losses were to top ten bantams. This should be a good fight. I think Dobrev will come out on top
ALDRIDGE/SWANEPOEL Aldridge comes in at 3-3 for the year. She lost her first three and won her next three. The only ranked fighter she fought was DiDonato and she lost. Swanepoel is a veteran with a 18-33 record. She’s the kind of fighter who might be called a gate keeper if she had someone to keep the gate for. She has now lost four of her last five. I have to take a chance of Aldridge
LEVESQUE/BECKY G According to the Archives this will be Levesque’s first FCBA fight. She’s had three bouts in the BBU winning them all According to IMDB, Becky G’s real name is Rebecca Gomez. She first fight was at the Doll House earlier this year. She lost. I don’t have a clue so I will go with the one who has won a bout. That’s Levesque
S.MITCHELL/MICHALKA Mitchell has really hit a rough patch. Although she won her last bout, she has lost seven of her last eight. To her credit she fights a top schedule. Michalka hasn’t been very active over the last couple years and while having a 31-16 record has lost four of her last five. Mitchell will followup on her last bout with another win
LAVIGNE/C.MENDES Mendes is coming off a loss to Stewart in a title fight. After that loss she is now 2-4 for the year. She has lost five of her last seven. This will be Lavigne’s 13th bout of the year with her record being 9-3 over decent opposition. I’m not a fan of Lavigne, but she deserves her Boxing World ranking of five in the flyweights. The two have fought once before with Mendes coming out on top. That won’t happen in this fight and knowing Lavigne’s post fight antics, they won’t be pretty
ATWELL/ROSE Atwell fights in both the BBU and The FCBA and also JMDD
In the last three years she is 3-3 in conventional FCBA fights with wins over Winstead and Palicki. Rose is a newbie with a 2-1 record. She’s not ready for Atwell who will win by a KO (doesn’t everyone?)
HOLMES/THERON The GOAT launching a new campaign in the cougars. I predicted this bout in my July predictions. My opinion hasn’t changed. Theron will win the first bout in her new division
KLOSS/BARROS I don’t know what has happened to Kloss. She came out of a New Blood tournament and quickly made into the top ten and rising to the number five welter. Late last year, something changed. Since then she has lost five of her last seven and four of her last five and dropped out of the top ten. Boxing World now has her ranked at fifteen and that is generous because she a welter. Barros is a newbie with a 4-2 record for this year. She has won her last four although while her opponents were not impressive, they were OK for a fighter of he experience. This is a must fight for Kloss. She simply has to win or drop out of the top twenty. I think she will. Kloss wins
LAWRENCE/NOLIN Lawrence is ranked at seven in the welters by Boxing World
Only in the welters could a fighter who has lost nine of her last fifteen make it into the top ten. She’s a welter who loses to lightweights and bantams. My total dislike of Nolin is well known. I’m delighted to report that the dirtiest fighter in the history of the FCBA has lost eleven of her last thirteen, beating only Baldwin in the last three years. If Lawrence can lose to a bantam, she can probably lose to Nolin, but I have to go with Lawrence to uphold civilization
PIETERSE/MCCARTHY Pieterse is an average fighter, who has barely a winning record if you discount her fight in JMD. Despite our near brawls at the Asylum, Jenny is one of my favorite people. She is hilarious to the delight of Cassandra Lynn and me. Where Pieterse is 23, Mac will be 47. Yes Mac is old enough to be
Sasha’s mother. Mac is 2-4 for the year and despite her advanced age, she still fights decent opponents. I’m going to throw reason out the door and predict that Jenny will win simply because I want her to
ROHRBACH/REFAELI Rohrbach is a decent lightweight who has risen to 18 in Boxing Worlds lightweight rankings. She cracked to top ten a couple years ago but in the last two years, her record is barely above water. She is 3-2 this year but one of her losses to Kostek, a top welter, Refaeli, having lost management, is in the twilight of her career. She has lost seven of her last eight and the last five. A loss by Rohrbach will be her ticket out of the top twenty. It won’t happen. Rohrbach will win
M.FOX/CHUNG THIS IS A BLATANT MISMATCH Chung must have a death wish. She’s less than an average fighter with a 3-13 record and lost eight of her last nine and she wants to take on Fox at precisely the wrong time. Fox having lost her last two, is not going to be in any mood to go easy on her opponent. This could get bloody before Fox finishes Chung off
REN/JENNER As I have said before Ren is unpredictable. This year she has beaten Sagra in one bout out of two, but lost to Lynch, a bantam. She’s 6-3 for the year. Jenner is in the top five lightweights. Jenner is having a sensational year being 7-1, her only loss being to Winstead who she has also beaten. The two have fought twice before, each winning one. Jenner will take the rubber match. And yes, she still haunts the pages of the Daily Mail almost daily
AGDAL/HOLZKEN THIS IS A MISMATCH Agdal is an average lightweight, who beats lesser lightweight but coughs it up against good opponents as her record over the last two years bears witness. Luckily for Agdal, Holzken is not a not a top lightweight and that is an overstatement. She has had only one FCBA fight which she lost to someone known as Chase Carter and that bout happens to be Carter’s only win. Agdal will pad her record
H.FERGUSON/HILBERT THIS IS MISMATCH Hilbert comes into this bout with a 5-1 record with wins over nobodies. She is a pupil on the New Blood tournaments. I guess she needs to get her feet wet, but she is choosing the wrong opponent to do it. Ferguson is preoccupied with JMDD a great deal of the time, but she is 4-0 in conventional fights this year. A blonde will win this bout and it won’t be Hilbert
LOPILATO/MCADAMS Lopilato has a 21-6 record, but is only ranked at 29 by Boxing World That ranking is justified. If you examine her record of wins, her opponents have been tier two fighters. McAdams, now 41, the four time champion seems to be trending to the downside. She’s 5-4 over the last two years, but lost three of her last five. Lopilato has a chance to boost her ranking by beating a name although the result may tell us more about McAdams than Lopilato I’ll take a chance on McAdams.
FREGE/SPIRIDAKOS Frege shocked the boxing world by winning her bout in the August PPV and virtually ending the career if Scherzinger. Spiridakos is an average fighter, who has lost five of her last seven although wInning her last two.
Any average fighter should be able to beat Frege. Spiridakos will end Frege winning streak at one.
WILDE/D.JOHNSON Wilde was once a ranked bantam. Those days are over as at the age of 35 she is definitely on the downside. In each of the last three years she has gone 1-3 meaning she has lost nine of her last twelve. She did beat Chastain in her last bout. Johnson is not on the downside since she has never had an upside. She has had one bout this year which she won. Prior to that her last win was in 2016. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that she could win this fight. Possible. not probable. I have to go with Wilde
HALE/L.COLLINS Collins comes into this fight with a 7-2 record after beating newbie in the VIX/Holloway stable war She hasn’t lost more than two in any year since her rookie year of 2013. She’s ranked at three in the flyweights.
Hale got off to a horrible start losing her first nine and then turned her career around and won the title in 2016. Now, she has slipped and has lost eight of her last twelve. I have to go with Collins
BENSON/MCNAMARA Benson has had a losing record ove the last three years. Recently, she has lost three of her last four conventional bouts. Management has had her fighting at JMD, That hasn’t gone well either as she has lost all four of her bouts in the category. PLP seems to be deteriorating. McNamara had one bout in each of 2017 and 2018. She has had two bouts this year which she won. Benson has beaten some good fighters, has vastly more experience, and is actually younger than McNamara. That spells a win for Benson
DiDONATO/GONZALES DiDonato is 8-1 for the year in conventional bouts. She has quickly risen into the top ten, ranking six in Boxing World and five in Tractorpull. Gonzales is now 11-12 after her upset of Strahovski in the last PPV. To be honest, relations between Gonzales management and Tractorpull are not especially warm, but I have nothing against Gonzales. If I pick DiDonato to win it will be assumed that I don’t like Gonzales. I don’t even know her. So forget that song and dance because I think DiDonato will win
PRINSLOO/REGAN Regan is now 3-2 for the year after beating Freeman on a FNL card. Prinsloo is 4-3 after losing to Mandy Moore in August Prinsloo is in the Tractorpull top ten. Regan isn’t. Regan is in Boxing Worlds top and Prinsloo isn’t. After this bout, one will be in both. I think it will be Prinsloo
RHODA/KOSTEK RHODA is 6-1 for the year with her one loss being to Righetti. Kostek is 3-2 for the year with one loss being to Righetti and the other to Rhoda. Rhoda has more experience, but most importantly she has a three inch height advantage which going to be hard for Kostek to overcome. Rhoda will win again
HENSTRIDGE/MEESTER Henstridge has a winning record, but has fallen on hard times losing five of six this year, Meester has done worse, losing eight of her last nine. One of those losses was to Henstridge. Meester will lose to Henstridge again
SCODELARIO/LILLY This is a big bantam bout. The winner should be in line for a title fight Scodelario is 5-2 for the year. Lilly, who turned forty this month, is 7-1 for the year after losing to Kosarin in August. The two have fought twice before with each winning one, Lily’s win being this year. This will be Lilly’s 93rd fight. One more win will guarantee she will enter the Hall Of Fame when she reaches 100 fights. I think Lilly will win
AMBROSIO/YUSTMAN This should be a good fight. Ambrosio has been far more active going 5-3 in the FCBA Those three losses happened to be her last three bouts. Yustman is 2-1 with her loss being to Kendall Jenner in her last fight. I think this is 50/50. I’ve been a Yustman supporter for a long time. I think she will win
WINSTEAD/HOSK This will be Winstead’s 99th fight. She is short of wins to enter the Hall as for years she has fought no one but the best. This year she is 2-4 with her losses being to Righetti, Ambrosio, Jenner and Sagra. Her wins were over Jenner and Palicki. Hosk has only had four fights and has won only one. I don’t know if Winstead is moving to the downside. She has had losing years before, but I have to go with Mary Elizabeth to win
D.R.RUSSELL/EISLEY Russell is a newcomer who has an unimpressive 2-3 record, but she has lost to good fighters. This may be a case of being pushed to fast. Eisley was introduced into the FCBA by the Wiz at the Asylum. That was in January. She lost to Reinhart. Eisley got his fight because Russell needs a win. Russell will get it
K.STEWART/E.WATSON For the flyweight title. Watson is 6-2 for the year, but one of those losses was to Stewart. That’s probably how she got this title shot, but to be honest Stewart has also lost to Watson Stewart who normally fights easy opponents. had a run at beating some pretty good opposition. It should be noted that you should’t invite Stewart and me to the same party. I think Watson will take the rubber match and the title Call that wishful thinking
B.THORNE/KOSARIN For the bantam title Thorne has a 6-3 record in conventional fights for the year and that isn’t bad considering the schedule of top opponents she has fought. One of those losses was to Ren who is a top lightweight Kosarin’s 4-2 record is also pretty good considering one of her losses was to Kendall Jenner and she has the scalps of Lilly and Scodelario dangling from her belt. The two have fought once before with Kosarin winning. I think Kosarin will make Thorne’s first defense her last. That said, I will remind readers what while my record of predicting fights is pretty good, my record of predicting title fights is not Please don’t bet on this
SWIFT/SAGRA I have always thought that Swift was an unlikely champion and here she is making her fourth defense reeling off wins over Perry, Strahovski and Ren. Sagra is 4-2 for the year, but that’s good enough to make her the number one contender in both polls. I can’t shake my opinion of Swift as a champions as irrational as it is. I go with Sagra
RIGHETTI/MOORE Righetti continues to march on. I will keep predicting she will win until she doesn’t
The addition of Levesque brings the debuts this year to 62