I voted No. Don't get me wrong I think Pavlik is great, but he would be facing two big disadvantages here that he never faced much of.

Pavlik has never fought a world class southpaw, or a fighter with great lateral movement. He did fight McKart who is southpaw, but he had a huge size advantage over him and Mckart's better days were far behind him.

Now unless they can get him some great sparring, I can see him getting out hustled by Joe because Pavlik will be struggling for position all night. Pavlik will need to slow Joe's 37 year old legs down. He may be able to do it, but I can also see Joe summoning one last good performance out of them.

A great matchup, but I give Joe a slight advantage here. Pavlik may be more well rounded than I think and could figure him out though.