david,
butterbean has proven himself in the PPV numbers. he is also free ink when it comes to mainsteam boxing magazines. after his loss to holmes, this is an interesting move for him.

schuster was in a reserve fight and won but that was in 1997. i think in 98 he was too injured to fight. the annoucement by ishii was a nice touch to satisfy the crowd who didn't get to see a final match.

dudko was a mystery. coker tried to pass him off as an immigrant american. i don't know why he didn't fight in japan. he wasn't invited back to the k-1 usa either. last i heard he went back to russia and brought jeff ford over to beat in front of his home town fans. ford busted andrei's nose in the first round.

the next year, gunter singer was the immigrant american. no one bought it and last year coker stopped the trend.

voodoo,

hard to say. this is just on paper and may very well change. but here goes:

mirko x mcdonald
mirko is going to hit hard from beginning to end. i don't think michael can stay on his feet for the full 5 rounds.
mirko will have this one fight on his mind. last time he was thinking about hoost in the final of the melbourne gp. he even experimented with knees and mcdonald got him not paying attention. this time, mirko is very focused on mcdonald. he requested this fight.

leko x esch
butterbean is the king of the 4 rounders in boxing. or so he says. like sapp, he came out of the toughman circuit. he'll try to rush leko and beat him unconcious early. leko may go down but i think he will hold on and then start working the low kicks.

hunt x goodridge
goodridge looked much better in his fight with musashi. that isn't saying much though. all he had to do was use his left hand [which he did]. he even threw a few kicks. still, hunt is a power puncher and gary is going to get hit by something similar to the lebanner jab that knocked him out. basically, hunt can't be hurt by gary but can dish out big bombs. this fight won't get out of the 1st round.