Tale of the Tape: Tom Zbikowki vs. Vernon Gholston
Competitor (seed): Tom Zbikowski (4)
Nickname: Tommy Z (think about it…)
Height: 5′11″
Weight: 215
Reach: Taken by the Ravens in the third round.
Sponsor: Affliction
Ring Music: Notre Dame Victory March
Hometown: Arlington Heights, Illinois. It’s also been called home by a deaf chick, a couple of soccer players, a YouTube guy, and a dickhole (actually the deaf chick called it something more like “ho-am”).
Pedigree: He’s actually a real boxer.
Strength: He’s one of those rare white athletes that doesn’t require qualifiers like “scrappy” or “gritty”.
Weakness: Football
Predilection towards violence:
Fighting Style: Tommy would prefer to work his way inside against the larger boxers in the heavyweight division. He can land looping and lunging power shots from the outside, but if he stays on the end of his opponents punches he’s going to find himself in a lot of trouble. Since he’s a Notre Dame product he already fights like a champion today, or so he likes to think.
Competitor (seed): Vernon Gholston (13)
Nickname: The Ghost
Height: 6′3″
Weight: 264
Reach: The Jets drafted him despite his aversion to football.
Sponsor: APT Pro Lifting Gear
Ring Music: Pump It Up
Hometown: Detroit, Michigan
Pedigree: Gholston has been an avid weightlifter and fitness buff since a young age.
Strength: Strength
Weakness: Buckeyes are notorious bitches.
Predilection towards violence: See hometown.
Fighting Style: Gholston is all about power and speed. He attacks his opponent by going straight forward and flurrying with combinations. He relies heavily on brute force which leads to a lot of quick bouts, but his defense is non-existent.
Tags: boxing!, KSK Decides, Sweet Science 16, The Champ Is Here, Unsilent Majority
July 24th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Vernon would crack that cracka.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I’ll take the deaf chick (marie ?) ftw… MILF boobs don’tcha know.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Gotta go with Whitey… mobility can be everything in these kerfuffles, or so Fight Night 3 tells me.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Christ, Drew. Go on vacation already…
July 24th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
He’s waiting for his pink Vineyard Vines tie to come back from the cleaners.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
‘He’s one of those rare white athletes that doesn’t require qualifiers like “scrappy” or “gritty”.’
Although, Todd McShay thinks he has a motor that just keeps running.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
If Zbikowski had his hands down any lower, that would have been a Rocky movie fight.
Black guy born in Detroit beats white Notre Dame alum raised in the suburbs every time.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Zibby. 1) He’s a Domer. 2) A good, technical boxer can easily dismantle a bigger, stronger brawler. 3) Boxing is one of the few sports where the white man can still excel and I like to see the disadvantaged succeed.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
@UM
Or the Mrs. is in the car ready to go, but he’s frantically looking for his belt with the lacrosse sticks embroidered on it.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
ZIBBY!
/A homer, but also not incorrect.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Ill take the pugilist… GO IRISH
July 24th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
In boxing, I always follow Lt. Frank Drebin’s advice: “Never bet on the white guy.”
July 24th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Zbikowki WINS..THEN WE ALL GO HOME TO EAT KIELBASA & PIEROGIS
July 24th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Tommy Z. It’ll be like in one of those cartoons where Mickey Mouse outsmarts the lumbering giant. Plus, you know, white athletes = scrappiness and all that.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Which one am I more scared of? That’s Gholston.
\both would fuck me up in 5 secs.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
In Detroit, they kill people. At Notre Dame, they pray for people.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Since he doesn’t have to hold onto the ball during a punt return. I give the advantage to Zibby.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Actually, at Notre Dame they also have the biggest boxing program in the country outside of the military academies.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Gholston kicks Zibby’s ass since this is just a street fight not a technical boxing match right?
Boxing = Zibby
Street fight = The Ghost
And Zibby’s not Rocky so stop dreaming people.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
It’s a boxing match, the presumption is that they are both trained boxers as opposed to football players.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
OK, well I begrudgingly take Zibby, but Ghost shoots him in the kneecap during the fight Last Boy Scout style FTW.
DETROIT REPRESENT!!!!
July 24th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Deaf chicks rule!
July 24th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
How many Polacks does it take to win a boxing match?
July 24th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
If Zibby wins will he’ll get a congradulatory punch in the nuts from Andrew Golota.
July 25th, 2008 at 4:33 am
[...] The awesome KSK continue their “science of sixteen” series (which pits NFL players against one another in theoretical boxing matches, neatly arranged into a bracket), with Baltimore rookie and former Golden Gloves boxer Tom Zbikowski from Notre Dame matched up against our own Vernon Gholston! Cast your vote for Vernon and read the tale of the tape here [...]
July 25th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Gholston!!!
Teddy Atlas is a consultant for the Jets … nuff said!
July 25th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I’d take Zibby. I was at that fight at MSG, and he absolutely murdered his opponent. It was pretty cool.
July 26th, 2008 at 3:35 am
I think Tommy Zbikowski is tough and a stud, but he is way smaller than Gholston. The big black guy is fro Detroit and the way smaller Zibby is a suburban white boy. The early rounds might go to zibby because of speed, but Gholston would just destroy Zibby with his huge powerfull punches. In the end the little white Polish boy goes down bloody and beaten by the black giant.
July 26th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Clicking dickhole gets Ted Nugent. Perfect.
July 28th, 2008 at 10:09 am
I live in Alrington Heights, a few blocks away from Tommy actually.
August 5th, 2008 at 2:09 am
when will this round end so we can go to round 2 obviously Tommy won time to move on