Paul Williams vs Kelly Pavlik

[C-Lo]

Did anyone else hear that Williams was willing to fight Pavlik, BUT ONLY if his purse would be 2.5 million?!

In my opinion, Williams is no way near supposed to earn that much! AND why the hell should Pavlik take the bottom end of the stick?! Now I would hope this happens and Williams could get blasted into oblivion!

Any one else have thoughts on this?

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

Ever seen a mohawked head liquify under brutal precision punching?

[LEGION]

Ever seen a mohawked head liquify under brutal precision punching?

Yeah, it looked something like this:


Williams must know 1/2 of that purse he wants would go towards restructuring his face and buying a blood bank. The last thing Kelly needs right now is to fight a guy coming up 2 weight classes. Lockett I'll give him; Mora is kind of stretching it in terms of building his legacy, and fighting Williams is just ruining everyting he's done to this point IMO. Let Williams test the waters 1st and see in a couple of years.

[Mar]

...the whole idea is just plain silly. I give him props for the dumb idea though. Williams is once again going after the fighters that everyone else avoids. Probably better is williams offers to arm-wrestle him instead. Probably have a better chance.

[Wayne]

Hopefully Williams can hurry up and get a bout in against Cotto before he has to move up to 154. After that, I have to agree once he gets to 160 he should fight a couple bums before taking on Pavlik.

[No Contest]

WTF? He's just talking shit, he would probably get in there against Wlad if the price was right....

[SweetPea]

WTF? He's just talking shit, he would probably get in there against Wlad if the price was right....

No kidding. This is one of the oldest things in boxing.... calling out an opponent and naming a price that you know you're never going to get.

I remember when Roy Jones said he'd fight Lennox Lewis..... if they paid him $100 million.

[amat]

I would also get in the ring with Pavlik for 2.5 million. Just in case Mr. Arum is reading. Hell yeah

Anyways, this is nonsense would never happen and rightfully so. I see no way Williams could win. I think the first person to give Pavlik trouble is going to be the person who moves laterally on him. JT tried a little bit it just didn't come natural to him. Someone like Spinks maybe or one day Giovanni Lorenzo. But right now I simply don't think there is anybody who beats Kelly Pavlik at middleweight. It's a fairly weak division and it's my belief that Pavlik beats all comers. I look at the division and I literally can not find a single person that could possibly give him some trouble and make a bid for the upset.

Closest I came was Lorenzo who does a lot of side to side movement and makes you work inside on him to get the job done but he doesn't use the ring real well and traps himself in corners a lot, Pavlik would have a field day. Spinks is a tough fight for anybody and would definitely take some rounds from Pavlik imo but he gets consistently broken down over the second half of nearly half of every fight and he has a bad chin.

Until he moves to 168 or someone else comes along, my guess is Pavlik stays undefeated for a long time.

[littlebif]

WTF? He's just talking shit, he would probably get in there against Wlad if the price was right....

Who would'nt get in the ring with Vlad at the moment he only uses his left hand. I would and iam only 10 stone i could run for 12 rounds so i figure i av a good chance at losing on points not bad against the world champion eh

[Wayne]

Williams doesn't deserve that much but he realizes his meat and potatoes are at 147 right now. You'd need to pay him that much to consider bumping up 2 weight classes where no one knows if he'd be a threat and he'd look a lot more like an ordinary fighter (with long arms). He could give Pavlik problems if he could keep up the workrate he beat Margarito with, but Kelly is THE chin tester and that low left arm of Williams, same as Jermain Taylor's reeks of disaster. I say it would look largely like the first Taylor match-up except instead of Williams putting it on his heel he gets smacked down in the center of the ring.