Iliev vs. Byfield: Kold Wars 4

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

Looking forward to the Al Siesta promoted Pro Boxing Event in Belarus this evening, Tuesday 04th August, titled Kold Wars 4...It is available for anybody who is interested in watching the live footage on Fite TV (where a payment is usually required)...Hoping to see a rejuvenated Asinia Byfield 🇬🇧 make a return to the squared circle, as he battles Ismael Iliev who is ranked 59 in the World at Super Welterweight. So a Win tonight would put him back into the World's top 60 in his division...At 31 Byfield needs to press on with his Boxing Career, but a good, clear Win tonight could well get him a shot at a decent title in his next fight, or 2...Kamil Sokolowski, who is one of the most improved Domestic level Heavyweights and who is based in Britain, is in tough tonight, but he is usually highly durable and I think he has only been stopped on losing efforts twice in his 9 - 17 - 2 career...(Once by D Whyte in 3 Rounds in Dec 2014 and secondly, by N Gorman in 5 in May 2016). However, tonight when facing Kazhakstan's No.1 Heavyweight, Zhan Khossobutskiy, who at 31 is in physical prime and as stopped 12 opponents out of 13, usually early, Sokolowski is in real tough and if he can last the 10 Round distance, he will have put in considerable effort...I have to be honest, I don't see Sokolowski winning this evening, but Dec 2018, I also couldn't see him KOing Nick Webb in the 3rd Round and although Webb was KO'ed by a somewhat limited Dave Allen in a previous fight, a fight he was comfortably winning before he was took out by a massive hook from Allen, Sokolowski can hold is own at Domestic British level, which is a respected standard...Good luck to Asinia and Kamil in their efforts tonight 🤔🥊👊👍

Watched the 9 minutes weigh in via the Boxing Promoter, Al Siesta's Twitter Channel and every boxer looks to be fighting fit...
Albert Khamkhoev Vs Pavel Semjonov looks like it could be a tasty fight...Khosdobutskiy is definitely looking to take out Sokolowski given the face off, but if so, how long will it last??? 
Asinia Byfield looks massive and well conditioned compared to Ismael Iliev, who is no slouch, I would like to see Byfield put on a dominant and controlled Boxing display this evening and get a British Win for Kingsley Egbunike who was robbed by the judges against Shigashev last night...🤔🥊👊👍

Zhan Khossobutskiy just handed Kamil Sokolowski a slow beat down and got him out of there in the 10th and final round...I think Khossobutskiy used the bout as a bit of an exercise to see how he would fair going towards the distance...He also has powerful shots and when he did catch Sokolowski clean, he tended to hurt Sokolowski with the shot, or combination...He needed to get Sokolowski out of there in order to show that he his a prospect to keep an eye on...I would love to watch Khossobutskiy Vs Dave Allen, Nathan Gorman, Joe Joyce and Daniel Dubois / Martin Bakole in that order to really see how good an Heavyweight Boxer he could possibly be...All these other Boxers are 1 - 3 levels in Boxing ability above Sokolowski in terms of talent...A good,  measured and controlled performance from the big Kazahk Heavyweight overall though 🤔🥊👊👍

Albert Khamkoev just completed a UD Victory over Pavel Semjonov and made it look relatively straight forward...He carries no real power and will probably be a distance fighter throughout his career, but his technical Boxing looked decent and he easily controlled his bout with Semjonov and clearly won the 8 Round contest 🤔🥊👊👍

Ali Izmailov was impressive. Damn, I am convinced we will see him soon among the worldbest 15 fighers. Outstandingly talented guy. 

The guy was 10-14 that he just beat and he’s 4-0, let’s not get ahead of ourselves @heinrich

Haha, yeah Nicky, tonights opponent wasn't exactly a World beater. Still, in only his 2nd fight he took on a 2x World Title challenger with over 20 wins and his 3rd fight he took on an 18-1 top 15 ranked WBC contender.  Sooooooohes definitely progressing faster than most boxingprospects. I think after Lomachenko fighting for World titles so early a lot of these Eastern European boxers with successful amateur careers are following his lead and jumping straight into bigfights. Much better than the old school boxing way of whooping 20 cans before you even get tested

@Mikey1903

This.
I think just because of Corona he had to take a weaker opponent this time. 

And what you could see was impressive. 
He is a awesome distance control, a great variety of punches, which he is capable of throwing well.

Other question: 
I think there is some mistake with the results being shown tapology.
Mitaev won against Krapshyla in the 2. round. Not the first. 
I was watching the event on MatchTV and I wasn't drunk. It was the 2nd round.
 

So the results of the tapology tipping game aren't correct.
I predicted that he will by KO in the 2nd round, which he actually did, so I should have a far better result the tapology tipping game.

Yes, sorry about that Heinrich, I entered round 1 instead of 2. I have fixed and entered the correct end time now

Everyone who tied for 1st had two perfect picks but are credited with three...

@Mikey1903
Thanks.
I was wondering the whole day, thinking:'What have I seen yesterday. I am so sure it was the second.'  :-)
But still the evaluation of the tips is wrong and based on the wrong information.

@pureincognito
>Everyone who tied for 1st had two perfect picks but are credited with three...

Yes, the evaluation of the tips is wrong. I think because the results of Mitaev vs Krapshy were originally entered incorrectly. 
Just compare my tips with the one of e.g. J Dub izzle. 

https://www.tapology.com/profiles/j%20dub%20izzle/predictions/71590-khossobutskiy-vs-sokolowski

He has tipped everything the same like me except Mitaev vs Krapshy, when I tipped TKO-2nd-Round-Win Mitaev and he tipped  TKO-1th-Round-Win Mitaev.
But he has more points than me
There is clearly something wrong the evaluation of the tips.

Yeah guys, I can't fix the points. I only edit fighters, fights and results.  

I think because when results were 1st verified that fight was wrong by a round, that is the problem.  Sorry again, my mistake, my fault.  Not sure how or if that can be fixed??

Ah, I see. The points are no big deal to me - I was more concerned that it might be some kind of glitch that would keep happening.

@Mikey1903

Sorry if i caused hullabaloo being inconvenient for you.
I didn't know that it was you who entered the wrong data. I thought:' That can't be. I was watching on MatchTV and scoring the fights and then out of sudden it is being stated that Mitaev would have won in the first round. But approx. one hour ago I have seen the fight and it was certainly the second.'

* Edited at 08.05.2020, 5:36 PM ET *

No, not at all mate.  I'm glad you said something as I want everything I enter to be accurate, its all got bud