pavlik vs calzaghe "arum wants calzaghe"

[saturday_kid]

hope this has not been posted elsewhere.

Boxing: Arum wants Calzaghe-Pavlik in October - Setanta Sports

[Tysonbruno]

Hope this fight happens.

[donnydarkoIRL]

It's incredibly difficult to pick a winner here.

Calzaghe cannot go on forever.

[RozzySean]

It's hard to pick a winner, but no matter what the outcome (unless Joe C gets KO'd early - not likely) both people, winner and loser, come out of this looking good. If Pavlik loses and makes it close, a la Mikkel Kessler, his stock won't really drop much because Calzaghe is future hall of famer, a two division Ring champ, and I believe Pavlik would me mentally strong enough to handle the loss and pick come out just as strong. If Calzaghe wins, he cements his legacy by beating a young, undefeated lineal champ. That would look very nice on his resume to go with Kessler and Hopkins. If Joe looses, he goes out on his shield and he'll get credit for taking the riske late in his career. Some might use it to discredit Calzaghe, but those will the be people who don't know anything about boxing.

[C-Lo]

It's hard to pick a winner, but no matter what the outcome (unless Joe C gets KO'd early - not likely) both people, winner and loser, come out of this looking good. If Pavlik loses and makes it close, a la Mikkel Kessler, his stock won't really drop much because Calzaghe is future hall of famer, a two division Ring champ, and I believe Pavlik would me mentally strong enough to handle the loss and pick come out just as strong. If Calzaghe wins, he cements his legacy by beating a young, undefeated lineal champ. That would look very nice on his resume to go with Kessler and Hopkins. If Joe looses, he goes out on his shield and he'll get credit for taking the riske late in his career. Some might use it to discredit Calzaghe, but those will the be people who don't know anything about boxing.

Great post!

[Deanrw]

Don't count your chickens everyone. In the only fight I can remember where Pavlik fought a southpaw (McKart), he only had like a 22% connect ratio and got tagged quite a bit. Now that was quite a while ago, but he has not faced a southy since.

McKart is crafty yes, but Joe is more so. There are a lot of intangibles in this fight. I would not write off Joe yet.

[Kel]

It's incredibly difficult to pick a winner here.

Calzaghe cannot go on forever.

If Joe loses to anyone I hope it's Pavlik, he's great for the sport.

[saturday_kid]

Yeah agreed I think Pavlik is the best opponent win or lose for Calzaghe to bow out on. Hard one to call.

[Bomp]

The more time that passes, the more it favours Pavlik. It's really tough to call and depends how much Calzaghe has left, he's had to do without his power for the last few years and now his speed is gradually leaving him, IMO he needs to work on getting himself in better shape than the Hopkins fight and get the bounce back in his legs by forcing himself to work to make 168. JC can win if he works behind his jab and doesn't carried away, and be ready to use his footwork to get away at times, as a big fan of JC this is not a fight I'm truly confident he'll win.

[00lambeths]

I love this idea of joe c vs kelly p i think it would be an awesome joes foot work and hand speed and kelly pavliks absolute relentles attack i wouldnt like to predict the outcome because as it's been posted it's so close but if i was placing a bet i'd have joe 12 round decision.

i'm still worried about joes vunrebility to the right hand and everyone knows what pavliks right hand can do but saying that i dont know whether pavliks one main attack the straight left right hand will work out with joes movement and ability to adapt and turn a fight on its head. who knows would love to see fight happen.