Kelly Pavlik not a fan of Showtime Super-Six

[HattonTheHammer]

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]

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.