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By doing this Pavlik will have lost close to all credibility & most importantly, I'd wonder if he has now really burnt his bridges with HBO. They clearly told Williams that they needed a 6 week delay to fight again & now he's fighting a fortnight later

I've been critical of Williams of late, for dragging Martinez up to 160, although I feel this is more to do with Williams no longer being able to make either 147 or 154, but with Pavlik doing this he's royally taken the piss. I'm done with him, he's now on my irrational hate list.
I actually give PW a hell of a lot of credit for taking this fight

There is nobody at 160 other than the dodger pavlik to fight. He could conceivably of used this to bolster his rep on HBO and put himself in with a sylvester or lorenzo who he would of just tore through.

Instead he`s fighting one of the top guys at 154
Except he's fighting him at 160. For a guy who's apparently a Welterweight, that's just bullshit.

Martinez has already said he has no probs with stepping up and feels it`ll suit him

If he fights the same pace he did against cintron he`ll more than make for a good fight. PW himself has only just moved up to 160 so he`ll hardly be the established guy come fight night

I do see PW winning a points decision (no way is he stopping martinez) but this will be far from a dead rubber and i expect sergio to be in it till the very end