I'll return with predictions for tomorrow's action.

Great night for Midlands football.

Wolves ay we, KRO

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A pic of WWWP's oversized bosom *YOWZA!!!*

My pick of AFC to win the Pro Bowl panned out.

I'm adding an addendum to my Super Bowl pick [Patriots]:
-- The game won't go into overtime.
-- The Patriots will win by 3 or more points.
-- Tom Brady will be the MVP.

Here are my MMA picks for February [I might add some Cage Warriors 101 picks later when I get more info]:

► Andrew Perez > Kevin Natividad [February 1, 2019 @ LFA 59]
► Daniel Madrid > Seth Baczynski [February 1, 2019 @ LFA 59]
► David Michaud > Christian Aguilera [February 1, 2019 @ LFA 59]
► Kyler Phillips > Emeka Ifekandu [February 1, 2019 @ LFA 59]
► Steven Newell > Jared Gooden [February 1, 2019 @ LFA 59]


► Anthony Hernandez > Markus Perez [February 2, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 2]
► Charles Oliveira > David Teymur [February 2, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 2]
► Jair Rozenstruik > Junior Albini [February 2, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 2]
► Johnny Walker > Justin Ledet [February 2, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 2]
► Lyman Good > Demian Maia [February 2, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 2]
► Marlon Moraes > Raphael Assuncao [February 2, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 2]
► Max Griffin > Thiago Alves [February 2, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 2]
► Renato Moicano > Jose Aldo [February 2, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 2]
► Sarah Frota > Livinha Souza [February 2, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 2]
► Taila Santos > Mara Romero Borella [February 2, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 2]


► Israel Adesanya > Anderson Silva [February 9, 2019 @ UFC 234]
► Jim Crute > Sam Alvey [February 9, 2019 @ UFC 234]
► Kyung Ho Kang > Teruto Ishihara [February 9, 2019 @ UFC 234]
► Lando Vannata > Marcos Rosa [February 9, 2019 @ UFC 234]
► Nadia Kassem > Montana De La Rosa [February 9, 2019 @ UFC 234]
► Raulian Paiva > Kai Kara-France [February 9, 2019 @ UFC 234]
► Ricky Simon > Rani Yahya [February 9, 2019 @ UFC 234]
► Robert Whittaker > Kelvin Gastelum [February 9, 2019 @ UFC 234]


► Aaron Chalmers > Corey Browning [February 9, 2019 @ Bellator Europe 1]
► Arunas Andriuskevicus > James Mulheron [February 9, 2019 @ Bellator Europe 1]
► Dominique Wooding > Bailey Gilbert [February 9, 2019 @ Bellator Europe 1]
► Karl Etherington > Darren Towler [February 9, 2019 @ Bellator Europe 1]
► Mehrdad Janzemini > Colin Fletcher [February 9, 2019 @ Bellator Europe 1]
► Patricky Freire > Ryan Scope [February 9, 2019 @ Bellator Europe 1]


► Amanda Bell > Amber Leibrock [February 15, 2019 @ Bellator 215]
► Brandon Girtz > Pedro Carvalho [February 15, 2019 @ Bellator 215]
► Logan Storley > Ion Pascu [February 15, 2019 @ Bellator 215]
► Matt Mitrione > Sergei Kharitonov [February 15, 2019 @ Bellator 215]
► Pat McCrohan > Ilya Kotau [February 15, 2019 @ Bellator 215]


► DeAnna Bennett > Miranda Maveric [February 15, 2019 @ Invicta 34]
► Holli Salazar > Courtney King [February 15, 2019 @ Invicta 34]
► Vanessa Porto > Pearl Gonzalez [February 15, 2019 @ Invicta 34]


► Brian Peterson > Patrick Martin [February 15, 2019 @ LFA 60]
► Carl Wittstock > Luis Saldana [February 15, 2019 @ LFA 60]
► Clayton York > Julius Anglickas [February 15, 2019 @ LFA 60]
► Dakota Bush > Jordin Hinman [February 15, 2019 @ LFA 60]
► Trey Ogden > Anthony Baccam [February 15, 2019 @ LFA 60]


► Michael Page > Paul Daley [February 16, 2019 @ Bellator 216]
► Mirko Filipovic > Roy Nelson [February 16, 2019 @ Bellator 216]
► Vitaly Minakov > Cheick Kongo [February 16, 2019 @ Bellator 216]
► Yaroslav Amosov > Erick Silva [February 16, 2019 @ Bellator 216]


► Kyle Daukaus > Michael Wilcox [February 16, 2019 @ CFFC 72]
► Naoki Inoue > Sean Santella [February 16, 2019 @ CFFC 72]
► Sean Brady > Tajuddin Abdul Hakim [February 16, 2019 @ CFFC 72]


► Daichi Takenaka > Mark Abelardo [February 16, 2019 @ ONE Championship 89]
► Jihin Radzuan > Gina Iniong [February 16, 2019 @ ONE Championship 89]
► Shannon Wiratchai > Tae Kyung Kim [February 16, 2019 @ ONE Championship 89]
► Shuya Kamikubo > Dae Hwan Kim [February 16, 2019 @ ONE Championship 89]


► Aljamain Sterling > Jimmie Rivera [February 17, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN 1]
► Andrea Lee > Ashlee Evans-Smith [February 17, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN 1]
► Cain Velasquez > Francis Ngannou [February 17, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN 1]
► Cynthia Calvillo > Cortney Casey [February 17, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN 1]
► Kron Gracie > Alex Caceres [February 17, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN 1]
► Luke Sander > Renan Barao [February 17, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN 1]
► Manny Bermudez > Benito Lopez [February 17, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN 1]
► Myles Jury > Andre Fili [February 17, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN 1]
► Scott Holtzman > Nik Lentz [February 17, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN 1]
► Vicente Luque > Bryan Barberena [February 17, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN 1]


► Kyle Zimick > Hayden Buckner [February 22, 2019 @ LFA 61]
► Moses Murrietta > Brendan Allen [February 22, 2019 @ LFA 61]
► Sean Stebbins > Eric Kemper [February 22, 2019 @ LFA 61]


► Ahmed Mujtaba > Rahul Raju [February 22, 2019 @ ONE Championship 90]
► Amir Khan > Ariel Sexton [February 22, 2019 @ ONE Championship 90]
► Saygid Guseyn Arslanaliev > Ev Ting [February 22, 2019 @ ONE Championship 90]


► Dylan Logan > Andrew Murphy [February 23, 2019 @ Bellator 217]
► George Tokkos > John Redmond [February 23, 2019 @ Bellator 217]
► James Gallagher > Steven Graham [February 23, 2019 @ Bellator 217]
► Jamie Stephenson > Charlie Ward [February 23, 2019 @ Bellator 217]
► Karl Moore > Yannick Bahati [February 23, 2019 @ Bellator 217]
► Kiefer Crosbie > Daniel Olejniczak [February 23, 2019 @ Bellator 217]
► Olga Rubin > Sinead Kavanagh [February 23, 2019 @ Bellator 217]
► Peter Queally > Myles Price [February 23, 2019 @ Bellator 217]
► Richie Smullen > Adam Gustab [February 23, 2019 @ Bellator 217]
► Shaun Taylor > Will Fleury [February 23, 2019 @ Bellator 217]
► Walter Gahadza > Ruben Crawford [February 23, 2019 @ Bellator 217]


► Chris Fishgold > Daniel Teymur [February 23, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 3]
► Darko Stosic > Magomed Ankalaev [February 23, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 3]
► Gillian Robertson > Veronica Macedo [February 23, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 3]
► Liz Carmouche > Lucie Pudilova [February 23, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 3]
► Marco Polo Reyes > Damir Hadzovic [February 23, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 3]
► Michal Oleksiejczuk > Gian Villante [February 23, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 3]
► Michel Prazeres > Ramazan Emeev [February 23, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 3]
► Petr Yan > John Dodson [February 23, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 3]
► Stefan Struve > Marcos Rogerio De Lima [February 23, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 3]
► Thiago Santos > Jan Blachowicz [February 23, 2019 @ UFC on ESPN+ 3]

Chelsea > Bournemouth
Liverpool > Leicester

Confident for these ones. I can see Tottenham lacking cojones tonight vs Watford so I'm not touching that one.

Saints vs Palace could go either way. Both as bad as each other.

I'll pencil them in homie :beer: Again, PLEASE post the date of the matches along with your predictions! It's not much to ask, and I have said it NUMEROUS times! Also, post if they are a part of a tournamennt or anything. I'm trying to make this thing as LEGIT as possible! I know virtually NOTHING about the picks you are making, so I am pretty much flying blind here :p: I'm putting effort into this thread, so please do the same!

Sorry sorry.

The date is today, the matches are tonight. I always post on the day.

I'll remember for next time.

Akai, Key, Mindfulness, Neapolitan & WWWP, start making some more sports predictions!

If you ALWAYS post on the day of the event, then it's no worries bro. No need to post the date :beer:

Football, bloody hell.

I take it your predictions flopped?

EDIT: Per the website you gave me to keep track of your scores, it looks like you went 0/2. Gonna pencil that in. Let me know if I'm wrong!

I'm throwing in that the Pats will lose the superbowl. Hopefully.

Merit how would you feel about a mini game in the thread

Me vs you plus whoever else wants to play? I’ll hold off explaining unless you wanna play

Damn you made a lot of fight picks

Are you familiar with that many fighters?

Did you ever see the movie “Chuck” about the real Rocky?

Another Q do consider Vladimir klitschko a top ten heavyweight of all time?

Yes they flopped. Such fine margins in football.

Congratulations to England, who just smashed Ireland at the Aviva.

Enjoyed that. England were good.

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I went 3/5 on my LFA 59 picks. UFC on ESPN+ 2 is later tonight.

I'll pencil it in!

I'm down for mini-games. Not sure that I'll participate personally until I hear what it is though.

I follow as many promotions as I can. If I'm not familiar with fighters, I research them [record, style, recent performances, etc.]. I usually make it a rule to not make picks for fights that involve debuting opponents, but I made an exception for the Kron Gracie fight.

Never saw "Chuck."

Vladimir Klitschko is definitely top-10 as far as current heavyweight boxers go. I'd have to think on it, but tentatively, I would say yes.

I was thinking a confidence game

One person picks 5 NBA games and you pick the winners with increasing “confidence” so the game you assign the most confidence is worth 5 pts and the least 1 point

It has to be the same five games for everyone

I think a lot of Americans don’t like to give him his due.

This doesn't really play into the "1 point per pick" theme of the thread. Trying to keep things as simple as possible.

That being said, I'd be more than happy to create a section in the main post and title it something like "OccultHawk's Corner" or "The OccultHawk Challenge" and have those picks and points be separate from the main part. Whatcha think?

I can’t tell by your answer if you wanna play or not.

Get some others on board and I'll play. Either way, I'd be happy to grant you your own section, like I stated above. :beer:

Let’s just play one on one. Is it bothersome to make picks for this game that don’t count toward your score counter? It is, isn’t it? Sigh. I get it though. It’s sort of disruptive but it’s just a mini game. I mean if I start making NBA picks it’s like to easy to just cherry pick games. Not that... oh well ///tears

Okay, I'm game.

And if you can cherry-pick, then do it!

Wed Wizards Vs Bucks
Thurs Raptors Vs Hawks
Fri Nuggets Vs 76ers
Sat (2/9) Spurs Vs Jazz
Sat (2/9) Pelicans Vs Grizzles


It’s actually advantageous to go second. Since I picked the games I’ll pick first sometime tomorrow. Then you’ll have up until tip off of the first game. If you want to pick first go ahead. I’ll probably do it around noon tomorrow.

I went 4/10 on tonight's UFC picks. FML.
I don't follow the NBA very closely, so I'm going to have to go with whatever information I find online. Judge me accordingly LOL. And I want to get your old ass into some MMA!

CONFIDENCE PICKS:

1) Bucks > Wizards [February 6, 2019]
-- Worth 5 points

2) Raptors > Hawks [February 7, 2019]
-- Worth 4 points

3) Jazz > Spurs [February 9, 2019]
-- Worth 3 points

4) 76ers > Nuggets [February 8, 2019]
-- Worth 2 points

5) Pelicans > Grizzlies [February 9, 2019]
-- Worth 1 point

And we can just add these points to our regular totals. No reason to not mix it up from time to time :beer:
Let me know if I did it correctly.

You did it right. That’s going to be hard to beat.

Bucks > Wizards 5
Raptors > Hawks 4
Nuggets > Sixers 3
Spurs > Jazz 2
Grizzlies > Pelicans 1

Good luck

I'll pencil in your picks. So, we get the allotted number of points for each correct guess, right? We don't have to get all 5 correct to win points? And we both win points, or just whoever has the higher score?

Okay guys, now that this thread is getting a bit of traction, let's get some feedback. Suggestions? Critiques? What do you like / dislike? What could be better?

That’s all there is to it.

Okay, I didn't know if it was like a winner-take-all type of scenario.

Whoever has the most points wins

I did your NBA thing, now you have to do some MMA picks. We have a couple of UFCs and Bellators this month. You down? We can do the confidence picks or just pick winners in general.

I like the UFC but it’s hard to stay invested through a PPV model

I used to watch Ultimate Fighter. Is that still on? The last fight I really got into was when Anderson Silva shattered his leg.

I’ll play a return round of confidence with UFC fights though. If they’re televised all the better. ESPN fights on boxing as well. I’m looking for an excuse to get back into boxing. I used to be real into it, history and stuff too but it’s been out of my head for a while.

I’m not very interested in MMA that’s not UFC. Not saying it’s not good. Just UFC is kind of it for me.

The Ultimate Fighter is still on, but it's only available on the UFC Fight Pass. Fight Pass is a subscription-based streaming service like the WWE Network, except that unlike the WWE, the UFC doesn't offer their live PPVs as a part of it. They get added a month later. But you can watch other promotions' live events, as well as old fights from the UFC and other promotions.

There is this new streaming service called DAZN that offers live sports. Right now, UFC PPVs aren't included as a part of it in the U.S., but Bellator and Golden Boy are.
How about some confidence picks for UFC 234 on the 9th? Since you don't follow it, we can just do the 2 big fights and 1 curve ball:

► Anderson Silva vs Israel Adesanya

► Kelvin Gastelum vs Robert Whittaker

► Jim Crute vs Sam Alvey

Also, I dedicated a section in the main post to "The OccultHawk Challenge." For the mini-games, each correct guess will count as a 1/1 in the main tally and the confidence points will determine the leader in the OccultHawk Challenge. Separate but equal :beer: LMAO

My UFC confidence picks:

1) Israel Adesanya > Anderson Silva
--- Worth 3 points

2) Robert Whittaker > Kelvin Gastelum
--- Worth 2 points

3) Jim Crute > Sam Alvey
--- Worth 1 point

UFC just does not want to be accessible to the general public does it?

They are just too greedy! They had a wonderful deal with FOX, which is broadcast TV and reaches both those who have cable/satellite and those who don't. So they reached a much wider audience than they did when they were on SpikeTV [which is now called "The Paramount Network"]. But the UFC wanted too much money and FOX refused, so they moved to ESPN now. The amount of money that the UFC owners make compared to what the fighters make is insane. Plus, they don't provide insurance or health care for their fighters.

On a different note, I am stoked that WWE will be coming back to broadcast television. SmackDown is scheduled to premier on FOX in October.

No health insurance to people beating the **** out of each other? That's criminal.

They view them as independent contractors, so they think they don't have to provide benefits. Yet, the UFC struck a sponsorship deal with Reebok, and the UFC forced all of the fighters to stop wearing gear from their sponsors and said that they can ONLY wear Reebok gear. This caused many of the sponsors to drop their investment in the fighters, and the fighters lost money.

So, they are independent contractors, yet the UFC can tell them what they have to wear? That doesn't jive.

► Anderson Silva 3

► Whittaker 2

► Jim Crute 1

So for our game the Anderson fight is all that matters

In a world with Lucha Underground, watching the UFC is like passing up pussy for a hole in a park bench.

QPR vs Blues is a mad game.