Pavlik is good and i respect his game but Hopkins will make him look real bad and might even beat him, Hopkins made Calzaghe miss very often and he has much faster hands and footwork than Pavlik, Pavliks jab won't be a factor as Hopkins always takes a best fighters weapons away from them, in his fight with Wright, wright didn't have a jab, it wasn't even a factor.

Another thing is Pavliks power WILL NOT be as good at 170 as it was at 160, One fight that Pavlik hadabove the middleweight limit it went the distance. Pavlik is a accumulation puncher, he doesn't have one punch power and he will have to land frequently on Hopkins to hurt or stop him and that just won't happen, Hopkins won't let it happen.

Personally i see the judges giving the fight to Pavlik if it is close and it will be close because he is the rising undefeated star, why would the judges give the fight to a past it 43 year old veteran.