East vs West 27 Predictions and Betting Odds

The vacant right-arm super heavyweight belt headlines Budapest. Laletin already holds the left-arm super heavyweight title and swept Alizhan Muratov 4-0 at EVW 25. On the right arm he beat Devon Larratt 4-0 at EVW 22, then lost the rematch 1-4 at EVW 23. Jabłoński beat Michael Todd 3-0 at EVW 22 and Georgi Tsvetkov 4-2 at EVW 25, but lost 0-3 to Ivan Matyushenko and David Dadikyan. Laletin has the stronger list of wins over the very top, and a best-of-7 title match rewards the deeper puller. We back Laletin and expect Kamil to take at least one round.

Larratt comes to Budapest off a 4-0 sweep of Ivan Matyushenko at EVW 26, and Matyushenko holds the right-arm heavyweight belt. That match was on the left arm, but it showed Devon's hand and wrist control are still elite. Sagov sits third in the right-arm heavyweight rankings and beat Yordan Tsonev 3-0 in Batumi on August 1. The open question is weight: Devon drops to 115 kg for this match, and a hard cut can cost him endurance in rounds four and five. We back Larratt and expect Sagov to take at least one round.

An interim heavyweight title on the right arm, with a late change: EvW replaced Michael Todd with Oleg Petrenko, and the poster marks Petrenko as new to the category. Chaffee is ranked second at 115 kg. He beat Ibragim Sagov 4-1 at EVW 21 and lost the title match to Ivan Matyushenko 1-4 at EVW 23. Petrenko is second in the right-arm light heavyweight list at 105 kg and holds the left-arm middleweight title at 95 kg. He won the 105 kg right-arm title from Todd Hutchings 4-0 at EVW 22 and lost it to Michael Todd 0-4 at EVW 24. Petrenko is fast and technical, but he gives away about 10 kg to a natural heavyweight. We lean to Chaffee and expect Petrenko to take at least one round.

Eighth against ninth in the right-arm super heavyweight rankings. The two met at EVW 12 and Kurdecha won 3-0. Since then Kurdecha lost 0-3 to Tobias Sporrong at EVW 24, and Tsvetkov lost 2-4 to Kamil Jabłoński at EVW 25 after a 0-4 loss to Michael Todd at EVW 21. Kurdecha holds the head-to-head win, so we take him, but Tsvetkov has taken rounds from better opponents and this one can go the distance.

Telyatnik is the right-arm welterweight champion and moves up 10 kg for this match. At 85 kg he beat Davit Samushia 4-0 for the belt at EVW 23 and has not dropped a round in his recent EvW wins. Hutchings is ranked second at 95 kg, but he lost his last two big matches: 1-4 to champion Bogdan Stoica at EVW 24 and 0-4 to Oleg Petrenko at EVW 22. The weight gap is real, yet Telyatnik's form is better. We take Telyatnik and expect Hutchings to win rounds.

A rematch. Mask beat Kalinichenko 3-1 at EVW 21 and swept Leonidas Arkona 4-0 at EVW 26. Kalinichenko is ranked fifth at heavyweight and drops to 105 kg here. His last EvW outing was a 0-3 loss to Yordan Tsonev at EVW 22. Mask is ranked eighth at light heavyweight, already has the head-to-head win and is the more active of the two. We pick Mask.

Samushia is second in the right-arm welterweight rankings and one of the most experienced pullers on the card, with EvW wins over Vladimir Maiorov, Nurdaulet Aidarkhan and Sasho Andreev. His last outing was a 0-4 title loss to Oleksandr Telyatnik at EVW 23. Amolins is tenth at 85 kg and sixth at 77 kg, so he comes in as the smaller man. He beat Craig Tullier 3-0 at EVW 24. We take Samushia.

Roman is ranked 18th at right-arm super heavyweight and beat Grigorii Liashchuk 2-0 at EVW 25. Botta-Dukát is unranked and pulls in front of a home crowd in Budapest. With a ranking and a recent EvW win on his side, Roman is our pick. Keep the stake small: there is little data on the Hungarian.

Bubenko is fifth in the right-arm middleweight rankings. He beat Paul Linn 3-0 at EVW 25 and lost 0-3 to Rustam Babaiev at EVW 26. Tavberidze is 12th on the right arm and sixth on the left. He beat Ryan Belanger 3-0 at EVW 25. On the right arm at 95 kg Bubenko is the higher-ranked puller, and we take him.

Second against third in the women's 70 kg rankings. Both have lost 0-4 to Fia Reisek: Bergström at EVW 16, Ivánfi at EVW 22. Ivánfi beat Irina Gladkaya 3-2 at EVW 15 and pulls at home in Budapest. We give her the edge, but the ranking gap is one place, so expect a close match.

Holland is ranked in the top ten at right-arm lightweight and beat Justin Bishop 3-1 at EVW 24. Peridis makes his EvW debut. A ranked puller against a debutant is the clearest pick of the prelims.

Both pullers make their EvW debut at super heavyweight, and neither has a ranked result we can compare. We skip this one and will add a pick if 1win opens a line with a clear favourite.