The most mediocre world champion of the last ten years...

[ElTerribleMorales]

Yes he is a pretty crappy champion and besides beating Taylor the 1st time he fought him in a non title bout at 166 so as far as reigns go he sucks.

aside from Sturm, who was there for him to fight? i mean come 2010 he has options, there Williams, Martinez, Mora, and well Sturm

Arthur Abraham, Winky Wright, Felix Sturm, Paul Williams and those options have been there for a while now. I hope 2010 he mans up and fights someone in the top 5.

Abraham is now at 168, Winky went idle for over a year and Williams beat the snot out of him, and Williams has just stepped up to 160, can't really knock Pavlik (besides for his BS reason of pulling out of the Williams fight), to his credit aside from Rubio (who was rated in the top 10) and now Espino, Hopkins has fought Taylor and Hopkins since winning the title, the main thing that's killed his career up to now is that is his inactivity, don't forget that before winning the title he also KO'd Zertuche and Miranda in impressive fashion

[jon09]

aside from Sturm, who was there for him to fight? i mean come 2010 he has options, there Williams, Martinez, Mora, and well Sturm

Arthur Abraham, Winky Wright, Felix Sturm, Paul Williams and those options have been there for a while now. I hope 2010 he mans up and fights someone in the top 5.

Abraham is now at 168, Winky went idle for over a year and Williams beat the snot out of him, and Williams has just stepped up to 160, can't really knock Pavlik (besides for his BS reason of pulling out of the Williams fight), to his credit aside from Rubio (who was rated in the top 10) and now Espino, Hopkins has fought Taylor and Hopkins since winning the title, the main thing that's killed his career up to now is that is his inactivity, don't forget that before winning the title he also KO'd Zertuche and Miranda in impressive fashion

AA had been sitting in the middleweight division longer then Pavlik and decided to move up because he was not getting any shot at him. Wright had been calling out Pavlik for sometime before deciding to go up and fight Hopkins and now the Williams fight has been scrapped again. Since he has won the belt he has not fought the whos who of the middleweights and has not taken on a credible fighter since the Taylor rematch. And keep in mind that this thread is titled mediocre world champion which as of now fits Pavlik perfectly.

[gest12645]

Eric Aiken, Sergei Lyakowich come to mind

[CutMeMick]

Since 2000... Man I can give you more then 10.
Does Interim count?
Some of these might be Interim

1st name that comes to mind Sultan Ibragimov...

After that:
Kelvin Davis
Michelle Piccirillo
Beibis Mendoza
Valery Brudov
Malcom Tunacao
Carlos Baldomir
Alejandro Berrio
Manny Siaca
Maselino Masoe
Javier Jauregui
David Diaz

Pick any one of the latest S. African fighters St. Clair, Baloyi, Klassen...

Fuck I can't remember his name right now but he's the only Mongolian ever to win a title. Fuck I can't remember his name and I can picture him and he has a pretty easy/simple name. (Not a common name but simple)
Fuck I can't remember... Anyways him.

[sampeyre]

Sebastian Sylvester

[Tysonbruno]

Joe Calzaghe LOL! No Gavin Rees is easy number 1 on this list for mediocre World champs.

[bzkfn]

Joe Calzaghe LOL! No Gavin Rees is easy number 1 on this list for mediocre World champs.

Souleymane M'Baye is the worst for me. I knew Rees would beat him. I actually picked Rees to win, because you just had to watch M'Baye once to know how shit he was. Awful excuse for a Champion.

[CutMeMick]

Since 2000... Man I can give you more then 10.
Does Interim count?
Some of these might be Interim

1st name that comes to mind Sultan Ibragimov...

After that:
Kelvin Davis
Michelle Piccirillo
Beibis Mendoza
Valery Brudov
Malcom Tunacao
Carlos Baldomir
Alejandro Berrio
Manny Siaca
Maselino Masoe
Javier Jauregui
David Diaz

Pick any one of the latest S. African fighters St. Clair, Baloyi, Klassen...

Fuck I can't remember his name right now but he's the only Mongolian ever to win a title. Fuck I can't remember his name and I can picture him and he has a pretty easy/simple name. (Not a common name but simple)
Fuck I can't remember... Anyways him.

Lakva Sim.
At least I remembered... A day later.