Pavlik - Williams off again!

[stebs]

Staff infections are very painful and hard as hell to heal,you guys joke like it is nothing and he should just fight though it but that's not possible. I just seen a special not long ago about football players getting it and they said they thought it was nothing at first and they would just play through it but it became more painfull and crippling then any hit they ever took on a football field, it ends careers and is so common in locker rooms the NFL put a full out assault against it trying to sanitize everything which is a full time battle.

On another note about fighting with one hand, there was at least one pro fighter with only one hand, I think it was his right that was gone just above the elbow?, they put a glove on it and allowed him to fight and he did ok considering his right was a stub. I don't know his name and just searched for him with no luck but I remember watching him a couple times years ago maybe on espn??

[JazMerkin]

Staff infections are very painful and hard as hell to heal,you guys joke like it is nothing and he should just fight though it but that's not possible. I just seen a special not long ago about football players getting it and they said they thought it was nothing at first and they would just play through it but it became more painfull and crippling then any hit they ever took on a football field, it ends careers and is so common in locker rooms the NFL put a full out assault against it trying to sanitize everything which is a full time battle.

On another note about fighting with one hand, there was at least one pro fighter with only one hand, I think it was his right that was gone just above the elbow?, they put a glove on it and allowed him to fight and he did ok considering his right was a stub. I don't know his name and just searched for him with no luck but I remember watching him a couple times years ago maybe on espn??

The problem is not Pavlik having the infection. The problem is him arranging & then cancelling fights because of it. Sorry, it's 3 strikes & you're out. First, there was bailing on Mora, fine fair enough there weren't many wanting to see that ugly fight anyway, but regardless it's unprofessional. Then the Williams fight in October. Williams was decent enough to rearrange it till December & now this?

Not only has he dicked Williams around, he will have really burnt some bridges with HBO. They actually moved both Andre Berto & Shane Mosley's fights around to accomodate Pavlik, severely pissing both guys & Golden Boy off. Mosley ended up basically going a year between fights so that HBO could accomodate Pavlik. You'd think he'd make sure he could fight before doing that. It's unbelievably unprofessional & I have little sympathy. I'd be very surprised if he's offered the same kind of money next yeat.

I've never seen a fighter literally right on the brink of super-stardom blow it like Pavlik. He had the potential to become the biggest boxing star in the US certainly, possibly around the world.