Paul Williams vs Kelly Pavlik

[amat]

I would also get in the ring with Pavlik for 2.5 million. Just in case Mr. Arum is reading. Hell yeah

Anyways, this is nonsense would never happen and rightfully so. I see no way Williams could win. I think the first person to give Pavlik trouble is going to be the person who moves laterally on him. JT tried a little bit it just didn't come natural to him. Someone like Spinks maybe or one day Giovanni Lorenzo. But right now I simply don't think there is anybody who beats Kelly Pavlik at middleweight. It's a fairly weak division and it's my belief that Pavlik beats all comers. I look at the division and I literally can not find a single person that could possibly give him some trouble and make a bid for the upset.

Closest I came was Lorenzo who does a lot of side to side movement and makes you work inside on him to get the job done but he doesn't use the ring real well and traps himself in corners a lot, Pavlik would have a field day. Spinks is a tough fight for anybody and would definitely take some rounds from Pavlik imo but he gets consistently broken down over the second half of nearly half of every fight and he has a bad chin.

Until he moves to 168 or someone else comes along, my guess is Pavlik stays undefeated for a long time.

No mention of Arthur Abraham. H'm. I think he's the one guy out there who could give Pavlik a real headache at 160.

I was talking about it more in a stylistic sense. You can bridge a talent gap just by having a style that's wrong for someone. Abraham is definitely the second best fighter in the division but I'm not sure he's the nightmare style match up for Pavlik.

Sure he's hard to hit in that guard but he's also a spot fighter. Pavlik has been hit cleanly before by Edison Miranda over and over and was never any worse for wear, I would be very very surprised if he crumbled under Abraham's power. It's possible as anything is but I just don't see it happening.

And for Abraham, it's hard to win rounds against Pavlik. Pavlik fights for 3 minutes a round, Abraham picks and chooses a minute here, half a minute there and in the face of Pavlik's consistent pressure from Pavlik. Pavlik might have a hard time working around the guard of Abraham in the early going imo, but Abraham would need his power to bail him out if this happened and I think Pavlik is up for the test.

[Spicoli]

I have always thought that after The Quintana Rematch...win Or lose...That Williams should move up in weight.Has yet to happen but Should he square off against Pavlik I see him getting trounsed.His quality chin (And its hitability) would get shattered I believe.