Tonight there is an interesting card at this venue in Cabazon, California. Jermain Taylor is making a comeback at middleweight and Andre Dirrell is returning to the ring more than a year after his fight with Arthur Abraham. The undercard features rising, undefeated Cubans Ismaikel "Mike Perez (HW) and Luis Garcia (LHW) who are fighting out of Cork, Ireland. A young undefeated welterweight, Alex Perez, is also on the card. I thought it might be fun to rate the opponents and other fighters on the card and here's my attempt to replicate them.
1. Jessie "The Beast" Nicklow - MW(2) - 2006 to present - (opp-Jermain Taylor)
Nicklow_Jessie.tbdx3
2. Darryl Cunningham - SMW(4) - 2002 to present - (opp-Andre Dirrell)
Cunningham_Darryl.tbdx3
3. Ismaikel "Mike" Perez HW(5) - 2008 to present - (opp-Friday Ahunaya)
Modified John Dewey Rating renamed Ismaikel to avoid confusion.
Perez_Ismaikel.tbdx3
4. Alexander "The Great" Johnson - LHW(3) 2007 to present (opp-Luis
Garcia)
Johnson_Alexander.tbdx3
5. Calvin Odom - JMW(2) 2001 to present (opp-Alex Perez)
Correction: Rated by John Dewey, mistakenly included in this thread
Odom_Calvin.tbdx3
In play testing the fighters, I deemed Jermain Taylor and Friday Ahunaya to be post-prime and used their auto-generated ratings. Alexander Johnson seems to really be at pre-prime although I have set him to prime. If his career progresses and he improves as a fighter, I would add an upgraded prime rating for him and change his present rating to pre-prime.
I will be posting photos of each of these fighters in the 2000-2009 thread in the Photo subforum.