Pavlik v. Williams is Official!

[CFH]

I'm a huge Williams fan, but Pavlik is going to starch him. Williams has a porous defense and while his activity is going to bother Pavlik, it's also going to provide him with a lot of opportunities to get his shots in. Pavlik is also, like Williams, and extremely active fighter and, unlike Williams, his chin his been proven in the middleweight division.

Pavlik by TKO in a FOTY candidate.

[Youngblood]

Yea I be taking my boy, Kelly Pavlik, man of humility, turned whiskey-drinking-nuttsack-fan-punching-tractor driving loon, by late round KO. 9th or 10th.

Going to be a great fight to watch. Williams is a freak of nature with that output.

[Nameless]

Seriously, I think William will win that one; he throws way too many punches, has a freak reach advantage and has still thunder power though not as much as Pavlik. I see him getting the victory by UD or a very late KO. Seriously, this fight is one of the most intriguing that happened lately (in my own opinion) and I can't wait for that one.

[eagle]

Seriously, I think William will win that one; he throws way too many punches, has a freak reach advantage and has still thunder power though not as much as Pavlik. I see him getting the victory by UD or a very late KO. Seriously, this fight is one of the most intriguing that happened lately (in my own opinion) and I can't wait for that one.

Its incredible that a tall middleweight like Pavlik is going to be outreached by 7 inches by a guy who just moved up from welter!!

Any chance this fight breaks any most ounches thrown records?

[Majesty]

Seriously, I think William will win that one; he throws way too many punches, has a freak reach advantage and has still thunder power though not as much as Pavlik. I see him getting the victory by UD or a very late KO. Seriously, this fight is one of the most intriguing that happened lately (in my own opinion) and I can't wait for that one.

Its incredible that a tall middleweight like Pavlik is going to be outreached by 7 inches by a guy who just moved up from welter!!

Any chance this fight breaks any most ounches thrown records?

Pavlik doesn't throw hundreds of punches a round..

I don't know what everyone's love with Pavlik is all of a sudden.

He may catch Williams with that right though

[Nameless]

Seriously, I think William will win that one; he throws way too many punches, has a freak reach advantage and has still thunder power though not as much as Pavlik. I see him getting the victory by UD or a very late KO. Seriously, this fight is one of the most intriguing that happened lately (in my own opinion) and I can't wait for that one.

Its incredible that a tall middleweight like Pavlik is going to be outreached by 7 inches by a guy who just moved up from welter!!

Any chance this fight breaks any most ounches thrown records?

Pavlik doesn't throw hundreds of punches a round..

I don't know what everyone's love with Pavlik is all of a sudden.

He may catch Williams with that right though

That might happen but Williams jaw seems to be pretty fine and I am sure he can sustain enough to resist, especially at the rate where Pavlik throws things.

Eagle: This is incredibly freak, actually, William has the same reach as the Klitschko brothers more or less, that says a lot.

[eagle]

Seriously, I think William will win that one; he throws way too many punches, has a freak reach advantage and has still thunder power though not as much as Pavlik. I see him getting the victory by UD or a very late KO. Seriously, this fight is one of the most intriguing that happened lately (in my own opinion) and I can't wait for that one.

Its incredible that a tall middleweight like Pavlik is going to be outreached by 7 inches by a guy who just moved up from welter!!

Any chance this fight breaks any most ounches thrown records?

Pavlik doesn't throw hundreds of punches a round..

I don't know what everyone's love with Pavlik is all of a sudden.

He may catch Williams with that right though

What do u mean all of a sudden? The guy has been Middleweight champ since September 2007. He got beaten by an alltime great 10 pounds over his best weight, but other than that has beaten all his other opponents when fighting at 160 comprehensively.
He doesnt throw 100s of punches a round but he is very active for a middleweight, and couple that with Williams ridiculous output and u have high punch stats.

[Majesty]

Its incredible that a tall middleweight like Pavlik is going to be outreached by 7 inches by a guy who just moved up from welter!!

Any chance this fight breaks any most ounches thrown records?

Pavlik doesn't throw hundreds of punches a round..

I don't know what everyone's love with Pavlik is all of a sudden.

He may catch Williams with that right though

What do u mean all of a sudden? The guy has been Middleweight champ since September 2007. He got beaten by an alltime great 10 pounds over his best weight, but other than that has beaten all his other opponents when fighting at 160 comprehensively.
He doesnt throw 100s of punches a round but he is very active for a middleweight, and couple that with Williams ridiculous output and u have high punch stats.

Middleweight at the moment is about as weak as the Heavyweights.

Pavlik is a good fighting champion but he isn't what's going to revitalize the middleweight division.

However I think he has a chance to beat Williams, Williams has a tendancy to go defensive only after he gets tagged by something or gets "stunned" as he puts it, against Pavlik he cannot afford that, he is gonna have to fight smart, I won't hesitate to say if he fights Pavlik the same way he fought Margarito chances are he'll get floored.

[Hoggmeister]

I see Williams starting fast but then wilting under the heavier shots of Pavlik in the later rounds. Kelly by 11th round TKO.

[HattonTheHammer]

Pavlik doesn't throw hundreds of punches a round..

I don't know what everyone's love with Pavlik is all of a sudden.

He may catch Williams with that right though

What do u mean all of a sudden? The guy has been Middleweight champ since September 2007. He got beaten by an alltime great 10 pounds over his best weight, but other than that has beaten all his other opponents when fighting at 160 comprehensively.
He doesnt throw 100s of punches a round but he is very active for a middleweight, and couple that with Williams ridiculous output and u have high punch stats.

Middleweight at the moment is about as weak as the Heavyweights.

Pavlik is a good fighting champion but he isn't what's going to revitalize the middleweight division.

However I think he has a chance to beat Williams, Williams has a tendancy to go defensive only after he gets tagged by something or gets "stunned" as he puts it, against Pavlik he cannot afford that, he is gonna have to fight smart, I won't hesitate to say if he fights Pavlik the same way he fought Margarito chances are he'll get floored.

slightly harsh

Pavlik, Williams, Abraham, Winky and then theres the endless 154/168ers that could drop up and down.

This fight needed to happen for the divisions sake though. Sauerland and pavliks team spent so long keeping kelly and AA away from eachother its good to see a high quality middleweight contest at long last.

Gonna bank on Williams every day of the week on this one. Pavlik will have the power but PWs just gonna dominate with that superior footwork and handspeed all night long

PW to take a very unanimous 118-110 esque points win!!

[JazMerkin]

Middleweight at the moment is about as weak as the Heavyweights.

Pavlik is a good fighting champion but he isn't what's going to revitalize the middleweight division.

However I think he has a chance to beat Williams, Williams has a tendancy to go defensive only after he gets tagged by something or gets "stunned" as he puts it, against Pavlik he cannot afford that, he is gonna have to fight smart, I won't hesitate to say if he fights Pavlik the same way he fought Margarito chances are he'll get floored.

A white, media-friendly, working-class 'hero', from a salt of the earth place like Youngstown isn't going to revitalize the division or at least interest in it?

Whilst an quiet, freakish lookin dude from Georgia will?

One man can't revitalize a division, but there can't realistically be any debate over which of the two man has the greater star potential.

This is the only fight in this division till the likes of Jacobs & Korobov push on. I'm hoping Williams wins, pretty much guaranteeing a rematch. I do like PWill a lot, but I think this 'he's avoided stuff' has been well & truly overplayed. I also think he can't make 147 any more & I'd like to see a welter call him out on it, just to see if he could make the limit. I reckon Williams does just enough to eek out a narrow win in a close fight, setting up a bigger money rematch

[markb018]

Williams will send Pavlik back to rehab with his victory. I see it going like the Margarito fight, but I think Williams has improved since then considerably. He has learned a lot from his loss and has been annihilating his opposition to either KO or wide UD.

I don't think Pavlik will be dropped but I think it will be pretty one sided. Pavlik will get frustrated like he did with BHop and when that happened he just dug himself deeper into a hole and had no back up plan.

[Rantcatrat]

Williams will send Pavlik back to rehab with his victory. I see it going like the Margarito fight, but I think Williams has improved since then considerably. He has learned a lot from his loss and has been annihilating his opposition to either KO or wide UD.

I don't think Pavlik will be dropped but I think it will be pretty one sided. Pavlik will get frustrated like he did with BHop and when that happened he just dug himself deeper into a hole and had no back up plan.

I hear that. I wonder why Pavlik took this fight. He had a tv date with Mora who is a much easier opponent. He then could have unified the division by fighting and beating Sturm even if it was for less money thereby prolonging his seat on top of the middleweight division and when time came, he could have someone like Bute or Williams.

I guess a win over Pwill puts Pavlik back on the map in terms of big name fights, but it just seems like a lot of risk right now.

[Wayne]

Too many variables to predict. Williams has too many pots on the fire... Pavlik hasn't fought anyone significant since Hopkins... Williams has never been sparked but Pavlik has knocked out almost everyone he fought... Pavlik is easy to hit and Williams will throw punches from noon to midnight and I suspect he'll be even more of a problem at MW than he was at WW.

[El Kabong]

Paul Williams by surprising stoppage! He's a southpaw, he doesn't rely on 1 punch power even though he may have something close to 1 punch power. And Williams is very active in the ring...I think Pavlik will have issues with PW's style and aggressive nature.