Kelly Pavlik not a fan of Showtime Super-Six

**The Fightfan** · 07-16-2009 09:28 AM

Maybe he is a little pissed off saying that he never was asked. Maybe he really did want to participate and Showtime didn't even think of putting Kelly in the tournament. I couldn't see why anyone would disagree with this tournament. The last big thing that happend like this was back in the seventies in the heavyweight division. From what I am told it was incredible.

**cpcompany** · 07-16-2009 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by The Fightfan

Maybe he is a little pissed off saying that he never was asked. Maybe he really did want to participate and Showtime didn't even think of putting Kelly in the tournament. I couldn't see why anyone would disagree with this tournament. The last big thing that happend like this was back in the seventies in the heavyweight division. From what I am told it was incredible.

Its possible that due to Pavlik's recent problems that Showtime thought he was too much of a risk/liability.

**LEGION** · 07-16-2009 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by cpcompany

Originally Posted by The Fightfan

Maybe he is a little pissed off saying that he never was asked. Maybe he really did want to participate and Showtime didn't even think of putting Kelly in the tournament. I couldn't see why anyone would disagree with this tournament. The last big thing that happend like this was back in the seventies in the heavyweight division. From what I am told it was incredible.

Its possible that due to Pavlik's recent problems that Showtime thought he was too much of a risk/liability.

Can someone tell me how it would have worked if by chance Showtyme had wanted Pavlik to participate? He's with HBO so how does that work out with conflicting companies? Would he have been able to participate? Aren't a couple of guys in the tournament HBO guys like Ward and Direll

And is this stuff coming from Pavlik more HBO induced verbiage and less Pavlik talking? I'm not implying that HBO necessarily told him to say this stuff so much as Pavlik just saying what his mothership would like him to say and trying to take shots at Showtyme.

**HattonTheHammer** · 07-16-2009 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by cpcompany

Originally Posted by The Fightfan

Maybe he is a little pissed off saying that he never was asked. Maybe he really did want to participate and Showtime didn't even think of putting Kelly in the tournament. I couldn't see why anyone would disagree with this tournament. The last big thing that happend like this was back in the seventies in the heavyweight division. From what I am told it was incredible.

Its possible that due to Pavlik's recent problems that Showtime thought he was too much of a risk/liability.

dunno bout that

kelly would of been the biggest draw in the tournament.

I dont dislike the idea of a league based tournament and no doubt the concept will pull in a few extra viewers.

But why over a 2year period? potential great fights like pavlik-kessler, abraham-sturm, froch-bute etc are no well and truly dead in the water and i fear we are now going to get a pavlik, bute, williams triangle of matches as we did with oscar-mosley-vargas-winky

**JazMerkin** · 07-16-2009 03:27 PM

Pavlik wants no part of the tournament because since the Taylor fight, he seems to have been keen on not stretching himself. That might be Arum & Dunkin's doing, but the fact is he's been keen to avoid Abraham, & I think they only went for Hopkins because they saw him as finished & an easy name to get on his record. If he had won that his drawing power would have been great, but he didn't & the best money option he has now is Sturm for $2m on HBO. I personally I think the length is good, gives the guys enough time to recover between fights even if its a gruelling one & I don't see anyone bar Taylor maybe dropping out. Don't see any bigger fights, & by the time the winner is anointed I reckon Daniel Jacobs will be the MW champ of the world.