Just a quick poll in order to find who you guys believe to be better.

In the Red Corner.....
Kelly Pavlik
The blue collared hero from Youngstown, Ohio, his perfect career has seen him progress quickly through the ranks although he moved stealthily, receiving little early media attention.
Pavlik has collected several highly respectable scalps, with domineering wins over Zeretuche, Miranda and Taylor.
Knockout victories over these fighters alone portray the fighters penchant for violent victories, but they do not tell the full story. In these fights Pavlik showed a solid chin, poise, powers of recovery, stamina, heart and a bloody single-mindedness that reminds fans of the fighters of yore.
These fights were complimented with his 2nd gear demolition of Gary Lockett earlier this year a fight which in my mind compared only to Miguel Cotto's complete dominance of Alfonso Gomez.
Kelly is a young enthusiastic Champ that has displayed little weakness.
He may appear a little robotic in his pursuit of his prey, but one cannot argue with the results.
Kelly is a machine. His approach is relentless, even when frustrated against Taylor in their second fight he did not lose compusure.
His power is truely special. He ruined Zeretuche, he took what Miranda had and bettered it, he exchanged with the now ex-champ and floored him and he performed an execution of Lockett. Kelly, definitely the man at Middleweight also has the sizre to cater for 168 pounds of destructive power.

In the Blue Corner...
Mikkel Kessler
The great Dane, perhaps the heir to Hamlet's throne as Prince of Denmark, lives in Monaco and crept through the ranks even more silently than "The Ghost." As Mikkel reached the world stage he was a stranger to the boxing public, but it was evident that he was being manouevered for special things with an impressive resume of knockouts.
Manny Siaca was the first opponent of note to court the Viking Warrior and failed dismally.Respected Austrailin Anthony Mundine was adressed in a clean cut decision in Mundine's territory berfore Kessler appraoched the task of winning atitle.Kessler by this time may have been a favourite, but his absolute destrucation of Beyer was not anticipated, he simply ahnialated Beyer before taking the rugged challenge of Librado Andrade.
He dolled out a severe beating to the rock solid Andrdade winnning yet another points victory. His only loss was to follow, to the ball of ebergy that is Joe Calzaghe. His efforts in this fight saw him gain the respect of the world audience with Calzaghe giving him his respect. He certainly earned it giving Calzaghe a competitive, clean and enjoyable fight. He hasn't fought a notable fighter since, recuperating with fights against anonymous European competition, but he surely must be acknowleged as the top man now at 168, seeing as Calzaghe is now a Light Heavy.