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Old 04-19-2010, 01:09 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift View Post
I don't know... there's an awful lot of competition there. Pavlik wasn't a particularly hard puncher for a middleweight... what's going to happen to him when he faces a guy like Arthur Abraham or Karl Froch, who will just sneer at his pressure fighting and lack of a great right hand? To say nothing of a guy like Andre Ward, who is faster than Sergio Martinez and has more power. I think Hopkins was right that Pavlik's future was at middleweight; it sucks that he doesn't look like he's going to be able to make that weight now but such is boxing.
Did you see BHop on ESPN2 picking Pavlik to win on Friday night? When I saw that I was thinking he hoped Kelly would win because if he lost, it might take some of the luster off his win over him. Looks like BHop exposed Kelly that night.
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