Bracket Notes:
----------WELCOME TO ONLINE BOXING HP 2005----------

What better way to spend the holidays than to bash your favorite opponent's head into the canvas!

Sign up folks for Online Boxing's FIRST annual Holiday Pugilism tournament.

If you're good? Santa JUST may drop you off a little prize for your efforts.

----------OOBHP2005 RULES & NOTES----------

1) This tournament is NOT meant to be completed in one day. This COULD take a few days, several days, a week or maybe longer. The purpose is to make sure that all fights happen.

2) Each battle will be a best out of 3. Single fights don't always prove much in a game as freak accidents happen. So whoever comes out the winner of a best out of three regardless of whether it was a lucky KO, a lag jump, or what not deserves to advance in the brackets.

3) It will be up to the fighters to set up fights between each other. By that I am refering to times to fight.

4) YOUR BEST OUT OF THREE FIGHTS *MUST* BE BACK TO BACK!!!!

YOUR BEST OUT OF THREE FIGHTS *MUST* BE BACK TO BACK!!!!

YOUR BEST OUT OF THREE FIGHTS *MUST* BE BACK TO BACK!!!!

That means no tuneups in between fights. I will be checking the records of your fights on the Online Boxing page. The reasoning for this is that some fighters try to avoid finishing up their best out of three by fighting other fighters. I want this tournament to be focused.

If you have ANY fights in between and *IN PROGRESS* best of three set, they will not count and I will request that you guys fight again. The fighter who took it upon himself to fight another fight in between will begin the best out of three "redo" DOWN one fight (0-1).

So if you need tuneup fights, do them BEFORE you begin your next BEST OF 3 set. Don't do tuneups during in progress sets.

We should see

Tyrant W12 Holmes
Holmes W12 Tyrant
Tyrant W12 Holmes

on your records. Not

Tyrant W12 Holmes
Tyrant W12 JoeShmoe
Holmes W12 Tyrant
Tyrant W12 Holmes

You CAN take breaks during a set of three set, but ONLY breaks. You still cannot practice vs other live players.

5) It IS entirely possible that this tournament could take longer than a week or two as I am planning on 16 total fighters and time zones are different. So just be patient and treat this like it is the Playoffs for the end of the year.

6) Your first round opponents will be selected randomly so do not complain about who your first round opponent is. This will NOT be setup on favors. It will be random.

*More rules may come. Some are strict because I want the tournament to feel official like a playoff series, or a US Open.

Begin to get your practice in. Get your styles down. Get serious. This is where you fighters want to "TURN IT UP" a notch outside of a title fight.

hey Mikkel, maybe the winner can be listed as "The Reigning Tournament Champion". It is not a title that can be defended like a strap. Basically, the winner is labeled the Reigning Tourney Champion until there is a new winner in the next tournament. Kind of like in Tennis where the 2005 French Open Champion remains the 2005 French Open Champion until there is a new winner in the 2006 French Open Champion. Only difference is that the title of Reigning Tournament Champion can change in ANY tournament, not just every december.etc.


----------OFFICIAL SEEDING FOR THIS OBHP2005----------

*close, so I based this on H2H (65-48-2 for Here To Fight)
1) Here To Fight
2) Larry Holmes

*close, so I based this on H2H (7-3 for Salvador-Sanchez)
3) Salvador-Sanchez
4) Tyrant

*close, so I based this on H2H (18-0 for Cynic)
5) Cynic
6) Bricklayer

*close, so I based this on H2H (21-15-2 for sugarray)
7) sugarray
8) USA

*close, so I based this on H2H (1-0-1 for The Sniper)
9) The Sniper
10) The Sickness

*close, so I based this on H2H (7-6 for Jabmaster)
11) Jabmaster
12) Kid Gavilan

*close, so I based this on H2H (2-0 for don_king_promotions)
13) don_king_promotions
14) Muhammad Ali

*close, so I based this on H2H (3-1 for Red Viper)
15) Red Viper
16) KICKNASS