Is Pavlik overrated ???

[southakron314]

For some reason pavlik had no speed at all last night. He was slow slow, hopkins could see every punch coming from a mile away. Pavlik was even speed against taylor, but hopkins was way quicker in this fight.

Hopkins looked like the old Hopkins. Pavlik 10 extra pounds looks alot slower at 170 than 160.

[THE THIRD MAN]

All credit must go to Hopkins who fought a near perfect fight, Pavlik was tight and the extra pounds did not help him, it's back to Middleweight Kelly for at least 2 years, super middle at maximum or face another humiliating defeat.
Pavlik was never in this fight from the beginning and was well schooled by the aging warrior in Bernard Hopkins. Pavlik V Abraham is still an attractive fight IMO.

[brucelee]

I give all the credit to Hopkins. Pavlik was mentally distracted coz he was not expecting that Hopkins could move so fast and so accurate.

[kingfrnk]

no he is not overrated he just took a beating. im sure hel learn from this.

[piye]

No. Pavlik is very good just not too versatile.

[SweetPea]

Pavlik isn't overrated as a middleweight. He was the #1 middleweight in the world before Saturday night, and he still is after Saturday night.

I've always thought he was overrated from a PFP standpoint though. I think some people saw him as a guy with a legit shot at being top 2 or 3 PFP. I never looked at him that way, I always thought he was more of a Top 10 type of guy.