Post by Tractorpull on Jun 10, 2022 12:58:38 GMT -6
TESS VALMORE
Once again, I present this month’s edition of my much maligned predictions. As usual it is littered with unflattering comments, cheap shots and unjustified criticisms. Last month I went 37-15 raising my total to 3332-937 or 78% correct
DAY/S.TURNER. Day has won seven of her last ten. She is 2-1 for the year with her loss being to Kendall Jenner. Her other losses were to LIpa and DiDonato. She has wins over Fradegrada and Tatangelo. Turner is going through a little rough stretch. She is 5-5 in her last ten, beating Kylie Jenner and Gerber.. Day has done better recently, but I am going with Turner
PAUSINI/CHARLOTA. I don’t have to go into Charlota’s record. After all she is fighting Pausini. Pausini has never won a FCBA fight. Any fighter who loses to Pausini should retire. Charlota won’t have a problem. She will take care of Pausini in four.
RATAJKOWSKI/KUBICKA. Ratajkowski has won six of her last ten, She is 3-1 for the year with her loss being Alexis Ren.. Kubicka is also 6-4 in her last ten and is 3-2 for the year. Her two losses were to Kendall Jenner and Lipa. Ratajkowski is a bantam. Kubicka is a lightweight. Ratajkowski as beaten lightweights in the past.
I put Kubicka on the Top Ten Lightweight watch list. I trust she will not embarrass me. Kubicka wins
TIGER FREE/M.B.BROWN. Tiger Free has a career record of 10-1 with her only loss being to Lily Collins. She is 4-0 for the year. With the exception of Collins and Emma Watson, she has been fighting average competition. Brown made her debut this year and was won all four of her fights again over average competition. Tiger Free has a slight height advantage. She will hand Brown her first loss
KATIC/ROBBIE. Katic debuted last year. Why I don’t know. She was 43. Now 44, she has won seven of eight with her only loss being to Joanne Krupa. Her competition has been in her age group. Robbie has lost six of her last ten Her previous stable folded, so she is on a ninety day trial with Sceej. She is twelve years younger than Katic, but is three inches shorter. Katic is a lightweight. Robbie is a bantam. Her last fight against a lightweight was in 2014. I would love to see Robbie win, but I fear Katic’s height and reach will be too much. Katic will win.
DIDONATO/REN. A lightweight bout with title challenge implications. Both are top ten lightweights. DiDonato has won eight of her last ten with her losses being to Winstead in a title bout and Taylor Hill. Ren has won six of her last ten and is 3-2 for the year after losing a JMD fight to Ratajkowski. The two have fought once before with Ren winning. I think DiDonato is going to get revenge in beating Ren
OLSEN/TAYLOR-JOY. Olsen has won seven of her last ten. She held the bantam title this year with three successful defenses before losing the title to Reinhart in the May PPV. Taylor-Joy has won eight of her last ten but is 2-2 for the year which is apparently why Boxing World didn’t put her in the top ten. Taylor-Joy has a two inch height advantage. I am going with Taylor-Joy to win
LAVIGNE/ISEMAN Lavigne has already fought ten fights this year and won six. Her big win was over Cicchino. The rest of her wins were over average fighters. Iseman has only had five fights in three years. She lost her last two to Tiger Free and Lily Collins. I’m not a big fan of Lavigne, but I have to predict that she will win.
J.CHASTAIN/S.MILLER Chastain has won six of her last ten. She is 1-1 this year after losing an intra-stable bout to Winnick. Miller has won seven of her last ten and is 4-2 for the year. Miller is 41. Chastain is four years older and an inch shorter. I would like to see Chastain win, but she won’t.
WINNICK/LILLY. Winnick started off her FCBA career with a bang going 25-8. The last years however, haven’t been as good. During that time, she has a 9-10 record and is 1-1 for this year. Her win this year was over Jennifer Connelly who is now fifty and has had six fights in the fourteen years. Lilly is in the Hall Of Fame.
Now 43, like most fighters that age, she is past her prime and has lost seven of her last ten. She 2-0 for this year beating McAdams and Fisher. This should be a good fight. I have to go with Lilly
ZIEGLER/BEER Ziegler made her debut in January and has gone 4-1 losing to Lavigne and beating Shipka. Beer has lost seven of her last ten and all three of her bouts this year. This year, however, she has lost to top flyweights Cicchino, Cheryl Cole and Collins. Ziegler will win. Why? she’s blonde.
E.ROBERTS/HALE. Roberts has won six of her last ten and is 2-3 for the year after losing her first three. Hale is on the downside. She has lost eight of her last en. Boxing World has Roberts ranked at seventeen while Hale is slotted ten positions down. Roberts will win
PANETTIERE/MARA. Panettiere is another Hall Of Fame member who is on the downside, but continuing to fight. She has lost seven of her last ten. Being on the downside doesn’t matter when it come to fighting Mara. Mara has never had an upside. Hayden in five.
PORTMAN/CICCHINO. Portman is a member of the Hall Of Fame. Now 41, she has won six of her last ten and is 2-0 for the year. Cicchino has already had eleven bouts this year winning eight. Two of he losses were to Vanessa Hudgens in a title fight and to Lavigne. They are the same size, but Cicchino is 21 years younger. I may not like it, but I have to go with youth. Cicchino wins.
N.SCOTT/CHOPRA. This is an intra-stable bout Scott has gone 5-5 in her last ten. She is 1-2 for the year and that win was a big one over Minka Kelly. Chopra has won nine of her last ten including winning the Princess of the Ice Hotel for whatever that’s worth. Chopra will win.
GONZALEZ/COHEN. Gonzalez is not having a good year thus far. She has lost all three of her bouts. In fact she has lost her last five. She has fought top competition with four of her five losses being to top ten fighters. Cohen is not a top ten fighter. She, however is doing quite well. She has won eight of her last ten fights and is 5-1 for this year. Her one loss this year was to Fradegrada. She simply hasn’t fought the competition that Gonzalez has. I look for Gonzalez to get back on track with a win.
N.FISHER/COWAN Fisher made her debut last December. She has had four fights winning two and is 1-2 for the year. Cowan has been around for a couple years, but has only has eight fights losing five. She is 0-1 for the year and has lost her last five. She has faced better competition than Fisher. I’m going to go with Cowan. I see that Fisher is a “social media personality” whatever that is. Isn’t this pushing the definition of “celebrity”
A.SABATINI/FLAIR. Sabatini has won seven of her last ten and has Palicki and Jennifer Lawrence among her victims. Flair has lost six of her last ten. Recently she has been involved the Diamond Boxing Tournament where she has lost three of five. She has fought all the top ten welters, but has only beaten one. She beat Upton three years ago but has lost the last three against her. If you look at the builds, this is a slam dunk for Flair. Everybody knows I don’t like wrestlers in the FCBA. I am going to go with Sabatini
LEOTTA/CORRIN. Leotta has won eight of her last ten, Her losses were to Lawley and Kostek. She has a win over Ferguson, Corrin has won six of her last ten and is involved in the Diamond Boxing Tournament where she won three of five, losing to McKinney and Lawley. I have to go with Corrin
BRESLIN/MONER. Breslin has won eight of her last ten and is 3-1 for the year. She has beaten Lavigne and Nasti . Her loss this year was to Moretz. Moner has lost six of her last ten and is 0-2 for the year. There’s not much difference in the schedules that have fought. This is a 50/50 fight and since neither is blonde, I’m going to have to flip a coin. Coin comes up Breslin
NASTI/E.HENSTRIDGE. Nasti has won seven of her last ten and is 5-3 for the year. Her competition had ranged from average to good. This will be Henstridge’s first fight of the year. She has lost six of her last ten and five of her last seven. She did beat Bassinger last year. I have to go with Nasti
DiPATRIZI/BELLISARIO. DiPatrizi has done quite well recently winning eight of her last ten. She has wins over Benson, Benoist and Weaving. Her losses were to Olsen and Bellisario’s stablemate Mitchell. Bellisario is an eleven year veteran and held the bantam title five years ago. She is 5-5 in her last ten. Di Patrizi hasn’t fought the competition that Bellisario has but she is twelve years younger. I will go with DiPatrizi
TATANGELO/J.LAWRENCE. Tatangelo has won six of her last ten. This will be her thirteenth fight of the year. She has won eight. She is a little unpredictable beating Lively, but losing to Nemiah Fisher. Jennifer Lawrence after spending years in the top ten has seen her career collapse. She has lost nine of her las ten, her only win being over Sabrina Lynn. She has even lost management. I have to go with Tatangelo although I would like to see Lawrence win.
JOLIE/THERON. Academy Award winner vs Academy Award winner Previous number one female action star vs current number one female action star. I’m barred from predicting Theron fights.
RAMIREZ/BECKY G. You might call Ramirez a 50/50 fighter. She had a 50/50 record in her first two years and is 3-2 this year. Last year, she had that big upset of MIchelle Williams. She 2-2 against Cicchino and is 2-0 against Lavigne. Becky G has lost seven of her last ten and is 2-4 for the year. Ramirez wins her fourth bout of the year,
POMPLUN/N.MARTINEZ. This is a loser leaves stable fight. Pomplun hasn’t fought much, She has had only five fights in the nearly three years she has been in Latina Knockouts. Her last fight was in March of last year. She has a 1-4 record. Martinez has been in the stable for thirteen years and has had only six fights losing them all. They are both over thirty-five. The best case would be a draw with both of them leaving. I don’t have a clue who is going to win, but at least Pomplun has won a fight so I will say goodbye to Martinez
Y.GARCIA/M,KELLY. Slam Dunk Minka Kelly
YUSTMAN/QUALLEY. Yustman has been one of my favorites for years. She has a career record of 46-33, but I fear she is on the downside at the age of 37 which is not unusual. She hasn’t had a winning year since 2018. She has lost seven of her last ten and is 0-3 for this year. Qualley is just been kicked out of GBS and has a1-3 record, with all her fights being last year. Is there any doubt as to who is going to win this fight? Let me give you a clue. Her last name begins with a Y
LOWNDES/PELAS I have placed Lowndes on the Hall Of Fame watch list although under the best of circumstances that is probably a year away. Recently, she has done only OK winning six of her last ten fighting a good schedule. Pelas has been around for six years and has an 8-8 record as of the time this is written. Jessica is one fight and one win closer to the Hall Of Fame
C.COLE/SHIPKA Cole has had a good eighteen months going 10-3. She is 4-0 for the year although her competition has been on the mediocre side. Shipka has been around for three years and has had ten fights losing six of them. Cole will be thirty-nine six days after this PPV. Shipka is sixteen years younger. Experience will be the big factor in this fight. I think Cole will win.
DONNELLY/CYRUS. Donnelly has a 16-4 career record and has won her last ten. The problem is, she hasn’t beaten anyone of note. All of her opponents have been mediocre to poor. Sorry about that Wiz. I am not a fan of Cyrus although she is basically a home town girl. She from like twelve miles down the road from Tractorpull’s headquarters. She has lost six of her last ten. She has fought a far better schedule than Donnelly. If this was at the Asylum, I would say Donnelly would win but is “ain’t” there. You know the chances of a visitor winning at the Asylum are about the same as mine being voted the most likely to succeed in my senior year at college. Yeah, I didn’t make it and haven’t proved them wrong. Cyrus will win
SWIFT/MERRITT For the Mistress Of The Body Saddle. This is the first fight for that long standing but meaningless title. I don’t need to comment on Swift. Merritt has won eight of eleven and is 3-1 for the year. I don’t see her as being a threat to Swift. Swift wins
B.THORNE/S.GOMEZ. JMD TITLE
REINHART/N.A.LIND. For the Unified Bantamweight title Reinhart is one of my Front Street favorites. Reinhart has won nine of her last ten against decent opposition and is a source of a big disagreement between the Wiz and me when I say Reinhart is one of the two best fighters in Front Street. The Wiz hasn’t acknowledged that, but since I am female, you know I am always right, well with the exception of a prediction or two. Lind is a decent choice for the first defense as the Wiz is one of the managers who likes to spread title fight around. She is 2-1 for the year and beat Naomi Scott in her last fight. Reinhart will retain her title.
B.DECKER/BOCCIA. This is apparently for both the Unified Welterweight title and the JMDD title. I don’t do fights involving JMD/D. I will pass. If I had to predict this fight I would say Decker will win, but as I say I don’t predict JMD/D fights
Once again, I present this month’s edition of my much maligned predictions. As usual it is littered with unflattering comments, cheap shots and unjustified criticisms. Last month I went 37-15 raising my total to 3332-937 or 78% correct
DAY/S.TURNER. Day has won seven of her last ten. She is 2-1 for the year with her loss being to Kendall Jenner. Her other losses were to LIpa and DiDonato. She has wins over Fradegrada and Tatangelo. Turner is going through a little rough stretch. She is 5-5 in her last ten, beating Kylie Jenner and Gerber.. Day has done better recently, but I am going with Turner
PAUSINI/CHARLOTA. I don’t have to go into Charlota’s record. After all she is fighting Pausini. Pausini has never won a FCBA fight. Any fighter who loses to Pausini should retire. Charlota won’t have a problem. She will take care of Pausini in four.
RATAJKOWSKI/KUBICKA. Ratajkowski has won six of her last ten, She is 3-1 for the year with her loss being Alexis Ren.. Kubicka is also 6-4 in her last ten and is 3-2 for the year. Her two losses were to Kendall Jenner and Lipa. Ratajkowski is a bantam. Kubicka is a lightweight. Ratajkowski as beaten lightweights in the past.
I put Kubicka on the Top Ten Lightweight watch list. I trust she will not embarrass me. Kubicka wins
TIGER FREE/M.B.BROWN. Tiger Free has a career record of 10-1 with her only loss being to Lily Collins. She is 4-0 for the year. With the exception of Collins and Emma Watson, she has been fighting average competition. Brown made her debut this year and was won all four of her fights again over average competition. Tiger Free has a slight height advantage. She will hand Brown her first loss
KATIC/ROBBIE. Katic debuted last year. Why I don’t know. She was 43. Now 44, she has won seven of eight with her only loss being to Joanne Krupa. Her competition has been in her age group. Robbie has lost six of her last ten Her previous stable folded, so she is on a ninety day trial with Sceej. She is twelve years younger than Katic, but is three inches shorter. Katic is a lightweight. Robbie is a bantam. Her last fight against a lightweight was in 2014. I would love to see Robbie win, but I fear Katic’s height and reach will be too much. Katic will win.
DIDONATO/REN. A lightweight bout with title challenge implications. Both are top ten lightweights. DiDonato has won eight of her last ten with her losses being to Winstead in a title bout and Taylor Hill. Ren has won six of her last ten and is 3-2 for the year after losing a JMD fight to Ratajkowski. The two have fought once before with Ren winning. I think DiDonato is going to get revenge in beating Ren
OLSEN/TAYLOR-JOY. Olsen has won seven of her last ten. She held the bantam title this year with three successful defenses before losing the title to Reinhart in the May PPV. Taylor-Joy has won eight of her last ten but is 2-2 for the year which is apparently why Boxing World didn’t put her in the top ten. Taylor-Joy has a two inch height advantage. I am going with Taylor-Joy to win
LAVIGNE/ISEMAN Lavigne has already fought ten fights this year and won six. Her big win was over Cicchino. The rest of her wins were over average fighters. Iseman has only had five fights in three years. She lost her last two to Tiger Free and Lily Collins. I’m not a big fan of Lavigne, but I have to predict that she will win.
J.CHASTAIN/S.MILLER Chastain has won six of her last ten. She is 1-1 this year after losing an intra-stable bout to Winnick. Miller has won seven of her last ten and is 4-2 for the year. Miller is 41. Chastain is four years older and an inch shorter. I would like to see Chastain win, but she won’t.
WINNICK/LILLY. Winnick started off her FCBA career with a bang going 25-8. The last years however, haven’t been as good. During that time, she has a 9-10 record and is 1-1 for this year. Her win this year was over Jennifer Connelly who is now fifty and has had six fights in the fourteen years. Lilly is in the Hall Of Fame.
Now 43, like most fighters that age, she is past her prime and has lost seven of her last ten. She 2-0 for this year beating McAdams and Fisher. This should be a good fight. I have to go with Lilly
ZIEGLER/BEER Ziegler made her debut in January and has gone 4-1 losing to Lavigne and beating Shipka. Beer has lost seven of her last ten and all three of her bouts this year. This year, however, she has lost to top flyweights Cicchino, Cheryl Cole and Collins. Ziegler will win. Why? she’s blonde.
E.ROBERTS/HALE. Roberts has won six of her last ten and is 2-3 for the year after losing her first three. Hale is on the downside. She has lost eight of her last en. Boxing World has Roberts ranked at seventeen while Hale is slotted ten positions down. Roberts will win
PANETTIERE/MARA. Panettiere is another Hall Of Fame member who is on the downside, but continuing to fight. She has lost seven of her last ten. Being on the downside doesn’t matter when it come to fighting Mara. Mara has never had an upside. Hayden in five.
PORTMAN/CICCHINO. Portman is a member of the Hall Of Fame. Now 41, she has won six of her last ten and is 2-0 for the year. Cicchino has already had eleven bouts this year winning eight. Two of he losses were to Vanessa Hudgens in a title fight and to Lavigne. They are the same size, but Cicchino is 21 years younger. I may not like it, but I have to go with youth. Cicchino wins.
N.SCOTT/CHOPRA. This is an intra-stable bout Scott has gone 5-5 in her last ten. She is 1-2 for the year and that win was a big one over Minka Kelly. Chopra has won nine of her last ten including winning the Princess of the Ice Hotel for whatever that’s worth. Chopra will win.
GONZALEZ/COHEN. Gonzalez is not having a good year thus far. She has lost all three of her bouts. In fact she has lost her last five. She has fought top competition with four of her five losses being to top ten fighters. Cohen is not a top ten fighter. She, however is doing quite well. She has won eight of her last ten fights and is 5-1 for this year. Her one loss this year was to Fradegrada. She simply hasn’t fought the competition that Gonzalez has. I look for Gonzalez to get back on track with a win.
N.FISHER/COWAN Fisher made her debut last December. She has had four fights winning two and is 1-2 for the year. Cowan has been around for a couple years, but has only has eight fights losing five. She is 0-1 for the year and has lost her last five. She has faced better competition than Fisher. I’m going to go with Cowan. I see that Fisher is a “social media personality” whatever that is. Isn’t this pushing the definition of “celebrity”
A.SABATINI/FLAIR. Sabatini has won seven of her last ten and has Palicki and Jennifer Lawrence among her victims. Flair has lost six of her last ten. Recently she has been involved the Diamond Boxing Tournament where she has lost three of five. She has fought all the top ten welters, but has only beaten one. She beat Upton three years ago but has lost the last three against her. If you look at the builds, this is a slam dunk for Flair. Everybody knows I don’t like wrestlers in the FCBA. I am going to go with Sabatini
LEOTTA/CORRIN. Leotta has won eight of her last ten, Her losses were to Lawley and Kostek. She has a win over Ferguson, Corrin has won six of her last ten and is involved in the Diamond Boxing Tournament where she won three of five, losing to McKinney and Lawley. I have to go with Corrin
BRESLIN/MONER. Breslin has won eight of her last ten and is 3-1 for the year. She has beaten Lavigne and Nasti . Her loss this year was to Moretz. Moner has lost six of her last ten and is 0-2 for the year. There’s not much difference in the schedules that have fought. This is a 50/50 fight and since neither is blonde, I’m going to have to flip a coin. Coin comes up Breslin
NASTI/E.HENSTRIDGE. Nasti has won seven of her last ten and is 5-3 for the year. Her competition had ranged from average to good. This will be Henstridge’s first fight of the year. She has lost six of her last ten and five of her last seven. She did beat Bassinger last year. I have to go with Nasti
DiPATRIZI/BELLISARIO. DiPatrizi has done quite well recently winning eight of her last ten. She has wins over Benson, Benoist and Weaving. Her losses were to Olsen and Bellisario’s stablemate Mitchell. Bellisario is an eleven year veteran and held the bantam title five years ago. She is 5-5 in her last ten. Di Patrizi hasn’t fought the competition that Bellisario has but she is twelve years younger. I will go with DiPatrizi
TATANGELO/J.LAWRENCE. Tatangelo has won six of her last ten. This will be her thirteenth fight of the year. She has won eight. She is a little unpredictable beating Lively, but losing to Nemiah Fisher. Jennifer Lawrence after spending years in the top ten has seen her career collapse. She has lost nine of her las ten, her only win being over Sabrina Lynn. She has even lost management. I have to go with Tatangelo although I would like to see Lawrence win.
JOLIE/THERON. Academy Award winner vs Academy Award winner Previous number one female action star vs current number one female action star. I’m barred from predicting Theron fights.
RAMIREZ/BECKY G. You might call Ramirez a 50/50 fighter. She had a 50/50 record in her first two years and is 3-2 this year. Last year, she had that big upset of MIchelle Williams. She 2-2 against Cicchino and is 2-0 against Lavigne. Becky G has lost seven of her last ten and is 2-4 for the year. Ramirez wins her fourth bout of the year,
POMPLUN/N.MARTINEZ. This is a loser leaves stable fight. Pomplun hasn’t fought much, She has had only five fights in the nearly three years she has been in Latina Knockouts. Her last fight was in March of last year. She has a 1-4 record. Martinez has been in the stable for thirteen years and has had only six fights losing them all. They are both over thirty-five. The best case would be a draw with both of them leaving. I don’t have a clue who is going to win, but at least Pomplun has won a fight so I will say goodbye to Martinez
Y.GARCIA/M,KELLY. Slam Dunk Minka Kelly
YUSTMAN/QUALLEY. Yustman has been one of my favorites for years. She has a career record of 46-33, but I fear she is on the downside at the age of 37 which is not unusual. She hasn’t had a winning year since 2018. She has lost seven of her last ten and is 0-3 for this year. Qualley is just been kicked out of GBS and has a1-3 record, with all her fights being last year. Is there any doubt as to who is going to win this fight? Let me give you a clue. Her last name begins with a Y
LOWNDES/PELAS I have placed Lowndes on the Hall Of Fame watch list although under the best of circumstances that is probably a year away. Recently, she has done only OK winning six of her last ten fighting a good schedule. Pelas has been around for six years and has an 8-8 record as of the time this is written. Jessica is one fight and one win closer to the Hall Of Fame
C.COLE/SHIPKA Cole has had a good eighteen months going 10-3. She is 4-0 for the year although her competition has been on the mediocre side. Shipka has been around for three years and has had ten fights losing six of them. Cole will be thirty-nine six days after this PPV. Shipka is sixteen years younger. Experience will be the big factor in this fight. I think Cole will win.
DONNELLY/CYRUS. Donnelly has a 16-4 career record and has won her last ten. The problem is, she hasn’t beaten anyone of note. All of her opponents have been mediocre to poor. Sorry about that Wiz. I am not a fan of Cyrus although she is basically a home town girl. She from like twelve miles down the road from Tractorpull’s headquarters. She has lost six of her last ten. She has fought a far better schedule than Donnelly. If this was at the Asylum, I would say Donnelly would win but is “ain’t” there. You know the chances of a visitor winning at the Asylum are about the same as mine being voted the most likely to succeed in my senior year at college. Yeah, I didn’t make it and haven’t proved them wrong. Cyrus will win
SWIFT/MERRITT For the Mistress Of The Body Saddle. This is the first fight for that long standing but meaningless title. I don’t need to comment on Swift. Merritt has won eight of eleven and is 3-1 for the year. I don’t see her as being a threat to Swift. Swift wins
B.THORNE/S.GOMEZ. JMD TITLE
REINHART/N.A.LIND. For the Unified Bantamweight title Reinhart is one of my Front Street favorites. Reinhart has won nine of her last ten against decent opposition and is a source of a big disagreement between the Wiz and me when I say Reinhart is one of the two best fighters in Front Street. The Wiz hasn’t acknowledged that, but since I am female, you know I am always right, well with the exception of a prediction or two. Lind is a decent choice for the first defense as the Wiz is one of the managers who likes to spread title fight around. She is 2-1 for the year and beat Naomi Scott in her last fight. Reinhart will retain her title.
B.DECKER/BOCCIA. This is apparently for both the Unified Welterweight title and the JMDD title. I don’t do fights involving JMD/D. I will pass. If I had to predict this fight I would say Decker will win, but as I say I don’t predict JMD/D fights