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Quote Originally Posted by The Fightfan View Post
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.