I'm not saying that he has to do his work on the inside. But Miranda has a pretty tight shelled defense when he is on the outside. You can land on his guard and if you can manage to keep him at bay then you've done your job.

But if you really want to hurt Miranda then I believe you have to hit him as he's coming in. Miranda really opens up wide moving in and Pavlik has quick enough and accurate enough punches to make Miranda pay for it. If he does get on the inside then Pavlik has to find a way out of ther.

I agree that he can't back EM up but he can't be going backwards himself either. Miranda throws real long punches coming inside and if Miranda backs straight up then he's going to walk right into one.