PROFESSIONAL ARMWRESTLING LEAGUE (PAL)

[Igor Mazurenko]

Professional Armwrestling League Tournament in 172lb class will be held on 18 December in Sofia, Bulgaria in newly opened FORD showroom. Eight strongest competitors will fight on right and on left hand in this weight class. This tournament is elimination to ARMFIGHT Professional Fights in year 2005.

ARMFIGHT 2005 will be race for title of World Champion of PAL Organization.

Following competitors will take part in Tournament in Sofia:

Rustam Babayev from Ukraine

Cvetan Gashevski from Bulgaria

Miroslav Ivanov from Bulgaria

Dursun Onder from Turkey

Aleh Matskevitch from Belarussia

Niyazi Kurt from Turkey

Craig Sanders from England

Zbigniew Chmielewski from Poland

Who will win? Who is the strongest? Please visit www.armpower.net/index.php?page=pal and vote for your favourite!!

[CHRISTIAN BINNIE]

Engin what do you think? How about Niyazi, does he have a shot?

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Niyazi is just making a come back after 2 years,he is not ready at all.and also 171-78kg is too low for him.there will be 4 guys for sure that he will beat with his righty,with his left maybe 1 or two.

Dursun feels simply untouchable at this point,he will suprise to many and remember my word.him and Niyazi just left the country today.

without offending anybody i will write my predictions about the tourney.

Rustam will win all of his 14 matches without any problem.

Gashevski 60% Dursun 40%
Gashevski 80% Niyazi 20%
Gashevski 100% to the rest with right arm

Dursun 70% Niyazi 30%
Dursun 80% Maskevich 20%
Dursun 100% to the rest with right arm

Niyazi 60% Maskevich 40%
Niyazi 70%Ivanov30%
Niyazi 100% to the rest with right arm

Maskevich 70% Ivanov30%
Maskevich 80% Sanders20%
Maskevich 100% to Zbigniew with right arm

Ivanov 60%Sanders40%
Ivanov 80%Zbigniew 20% with right arm

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with left it will be Rustam's wins on all 7 matches as i wrote before.Left hand predictions;


Maskevich 90% Dursun 10%
Maskevich 80% Ivanov 20%
Maskevich 100%to the rest

Dursun 70%Ivanov30%
Dursun 80%Zbigniew20%
Dursun 80%Gashevski 20%
Dursun 100%to the rest

Ivanov 80%Zbigniew20%
Ivanov 90%Niyazi10%
Ivanov 90% Gashevski10%
Ivanov 90%Sanders 10%

Gashevski 60%Zbigniew40%
Gashevski 60%Niyazi40%
Gashevski 70%Sanders30%

Zbigniew 50%Niyazi50%
Zbigniew50%Sanders50&
Niyazi 50% Sanders50%

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so i believe that;

Rustam 14 winnings
Gashevski 10 winnings
Dursun 10 winnings
Maskevich 9wins
Ivanov 6 winnings
Niyazi 5 winnings
Sanders 1 winning
Zbigniew 1 winning

just my predictions,i am sure that i didnt make wrong guessing more than 10%.

[Charlie Minell]

I think Ivanov will beat everybody left handed. Not sure about Rustam's left arm, but if he can beat Ivanov with left then I'm even more impressed of him.

[Jonas Sundling]

Rustam will crush Ivanov for sure Charlie ;D

Noone in Europe or US can tuch him atm in that weightclass. The guy is on his peak in his career i belive.

[Charlie Minell]

We will see the 18th. Ivanov is amazing with left, but Rustam might be that too... I haven't seen him pull left, so I really don't know.

[Steve Kirlew]

I'm positive i just saw Aleh Matskevitch getting a gold and silver at the Worlds in South Africa!
Also Craig Sanders is only 70kg so how is this a fair weight class???

[CHRISTIAN BINNIE]

ENgin, I hope Dursun pulls better than he did in Reno. I was surprised at his placement knowing how good he is.

[Olin Lucas]

For God's sake would someone just break Rustam's arm off please? This guy is just rediculous!!!!!!! I would like to see Craig Tullier pull him at either 165lbs or 171lbs At the rate Rustam is going, I don't see how is body can physically stand up to the rigors that he is putting it through.

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Ivanov???
Charlie,please check what place Ivanov took in the last europeans.i really dont think he was in top 6.

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Craig???

please Olin ???you must be drunk or upset ;Dthere are some serious physical facts my friend.do you remember Ozgur?i guess he pulled you and Craig both,he also won 1. place easily in Canada worlds even beating Crazy George without NO competetion.Rustam beat Ozgur so bad that i just cant explain how without making you all feel like you are watching a scary movie.

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Steve,Craig Sanders was invited to this event a few months ago.it was his desicion to lose weight and compete at 70kg in S.Africa.im pretty sure that he gained weight back to at least 75kg.

Charlie,i just checked the results.Miroslav Ivanov took 7.place.i know he lost one of his matches to Kazimir Iskenderov who was only 73kg at that time,Iskenderov took 3. place with his left in 70kg at this in S.Africa.i hope Miroslav Ivanov has trained better for this event.

[enginterzi]

there are three matches that i gave 50% chance to the both armwrestlers.so there will be 56 matches of total.so i clearly gave more chance to the one armwrestler in the 53 matches.i just checked my predictions and hoped that there will be 5-6 wrong predictions.the most i expect is 9 wrong predictions.and if 3-4 happens i will be so happy.

about how many winning they will get is out of my prediction percentage.because one wrong guess will change two armwrestlers winning numbers.i love to challenge myself,but it may make me look bad as an armwrestling expert( sorry for calling myself like that).but if i guess them right i will have more credit about international armwrestling knowledge.i have trust in my predictions but its very hard to guess how they feel right now by knowing them from their past results.one may have injury,or can be ill.they had to attend this event because its an invitational event.and another difficulty about guessing the result of each match is,that they mostly top armwrestlers.so anybody can beat eachother ( excluding Rustam ).ok i listed enough excuse for a possible disappointment:).but i still have a great faith in my predictions!!