As of this weekend, leaderman — and recent TQBR contributor! — Paul Kelly kept his TQBR Prediction Game 4.0 lead in large measure because of a sadistic referee, Ian John-Lewis, and a corner that had no interest in protecting Shannon Briggs from a brutal pummeling by Vitali Klitschko that lasted far too long and left Briggs in the intensive care unit with broken bones in his face. But on the bright side, the torn bicep probably wasn’t Klitschko’s fault.
Anyway, Paul Kelly was the only one who saw that fight going the distance, and for that he got a perfect 600 points. He also predicted a knockout by Lucian Bute over Jesse Brinkley, good for 550 points. The perfect ones for that fight — the ones who called a 9th round knockout for Bute — were Basque Country, Neon Leon’s Two Front Teeth aka Andrew Harrison and The Road Warrior aka Hit Dog. Good ones, lads.
Unfortunately for Mr. Teeth, he also was one of only two people to call an upset over the weekend, predicting — with the caveat that it was “ridiculous” — a Briggs win. The other was stickfigure, calling a Brinkley win, because it’d be “boring” to predict otherwise. Both men had been sitting fairly pretty in the standings, and the gamble cost them. Hey, at least they knew it was kooky what they were doing. Most everybody else went with knockouts for both Bute and Klitschko, but five people had Bute by unanimous decision.
TQBR Prediction Game 4.0 will return to a neighborhood near you for a big finish for doubleheaders airing on Showtime and HBO Nov. 6.
Until then, please find below your standings. As always, if you see a tabulation error, notify me and we can adjudicate:
STANDINGS
Paul Kelly: 4150
Miggs 88: 4000
the legend: 3500
Team Tommy Westphal’s Mind (willfrank): 3350
Pale Fire (Apemantus): 3250
cardscott5: 3250
stickfigure: 2850
Team Ivan Drago (edub): 2850
Unifythebelts: 2800
Arthur Billette: 2800
The Road Warrior (Hit Dog): 2800
Team Count of Monte Fisto (cguenard): 2750
The Ghost With The Hammer In His Hand (Tim Starks): 2700
Not Sure (Jay Ari Yin): 2650
Trainwreck (nazarioz): 2650
Basque Country: 2650
Team Iron Psych (PJ): 2600
DukeShadeBlue: 2550
Sure Shot Sabotage (Dobbler): 2600
JB: 2300
Neon Leon’s Two Front Teeth (Andrew Harrison): 2300
Team Death Shift (ALEXMAC): 2150
The Flying Kermits (cNcEDDIE): 2100
Bigmaxy: 2100
Pretty Toney: 2100
Team Million Dollar Dream (Scott Kraus): 2050
ShortFuse (RoWyN): 2050
David Schraub: 2050
Quensburry Wench: 1750
Da Weasel: (FunkyBadger): 1700
IrvinRyan: 1600
Johnkzoo: 1550
baron: 1500
morelandj: 1050
memzie: 1050
beccapooka: 1050
Violent Demise: 650
Duan: 650
JasonTO: 600
Beard of Zeus (Eugene Dammrod): 550
Sam Fong 500
Ingo’s Bingo (BenOlson): 0
Topanga (ScottB): 0
FightFreak: 0
team individuality: 0
Don Pe pe: 0
gavaniacono: 0
