pavlik after hopkins

[JazMerkin]

I think Pavlik has in his favour that he was beaten by a guy almost universally acknowledged as an ATG, and a guy who some people had beating Joe Calzaghe earlier in the year. Also as has been said it was above the weight he normally fights at. So I think he can come back, especially with what Hopkins said to him afterwards, as long as he keeps his self-belief. Its in stark contrast to Cotto, who was beaten into submission by a technically weaker fighter at his preferred weight. Although I don't want to set off the Cotto fanbase with that

I know B-Hop said he just needed to bend his knees & get some decent footwork (and he obviously knows more than me) but to me he just won't be able to do that, because he's spent half his life training as a flat-footed fighter & keeps his legs too far apart for it to work effectively. Also that's a decent article above, Hauser is by far my favourite current boxing writer, even if on this one his facts aren't too straight & at times it seems he's towing the Pavlik line a bit much.