Quote Originally Posted by Majesty View Post
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