Quote Originally Posted by Taeth View Post
Sure he is a good fighter, with a solid punch, and an excellent workrate, but why is he the only guy who seems to be able to get any amount of hype, and still receive no criticism by fight fans, I don't get it. He isn't fast, he doesn't have a great chin, he's relatively easy to hit. He does have decent technique, but is it just the blue collar nature of boxing that makes him so appealing to so many of you? Is it because he is the "Great white hope"? I like him now, but I still don't find him particularly exciting because everything he does is ordinary. He has no flash, he doesn't have the timing Hagler did or the personality. I don't know how he earned all this love.

I also think there are guys around his weight category (Chad Dawson, Glen Johnson, Mikkel Kessler, Joe Calzaghe) who will school him, and even Bernard stands a good chance of beating Pavlik on Saturday night.
Taeth, Taeth, Taeth... ::Shakes Head::

Chin... The chin isn't that great you say? Watch the Miranda fight. Watch the fact that he was attempting to showboat when he stuck his chin out and got mashed by Taylor. Taylor is not exactly Paulie M. Please, he's relatively easy to hit? You're fucking joking, right? He parries more punches then the amount of knuckle children you lay out on a daily basis. He doesn't bob and weave, he sees punches and discards them...

Pavlik beats Hopkins(on work rate), Kessler(same reason Joe beat him), Johnson(Johnson will not be able to muscle Pavlik around the ring) and Joe Calzahe cuz they have a similar work rate but Kelly's punches have steam on em... No hate on Joe as his style suits him but all the same...

Chad would be a GREAT fight though!