Oliver....Sorry if I hurt your feeling. But I think that you may have misunderstood me also....You still fail to really read my message....As David said, Jerome is the best pick for Mark up first...(You said it's the worst...) You tell me who else in the top eight who would walk in to trade with Mark which makes experience, height and reach advantage don't count no more....Is it Hoost? No! is it Ignoshov? No! Is it Pettas? No! Is it Peter No! Leko? maybe...etc...Will Jerome??? Well, that's why Mark picked him.... I tell you some else you don't know Oliver. In the early days in K-1 were given a choice on who we would like to fight by Stacy Kim (secretary for K-1 than) Remember he knocked out Hoost who beat Ray in his first ever fight at the K-1.....Guess which choice we gave Stacy? Of course you would never have pick it....Yes, it was Le Banner....We know he walks in (and he still does)....remember them days, he had never been knocked out by a punch by anywone...He even stopped Barnardo with low kicks....And them days, everyone stayed away from Barnardo. Even Mr. Ishii knows this and only put Aerts agaist him most of the time. Mike is very strong and intimidating....Please excuse me, I'm not being arrogant of pickng Mark to beat Jerome out of just the Kiwi thing....my pick is base on a coaches experience facts.....You keep saying you don't think Mark is this, or that....You focus on telling us about Mark's weak points...How about look at some of Jerome's weak points and a possibily on how Mark may beat him, instead, you trying to connvince us (or yourself) that Mark is not good enough. You keep saying that Jerome had never been beaten and look very strong in the last 2 years...does his fight with Barnardo count? And something else you've failed to to noticed....Mark had never been KOed, boxing and kick boxing....I was working at Mark's corner when he took some heavy kicks from Nathan Briggs (in my opinion is the hardest heavyweight kicker in Australia) without a blink. Anyway, Jerome will need to hit Mark flushed on the.....anywhere but the head to hurt him...LOL!