Pavlik - Williams off again!

[Spicoli]

You know what.Williams via TKO....now lets move on.Not sure about Martinez's chances with Williams.Far better boxer but get the feeling he'll need much more to keep Williams off of him at this point.Especially at 154,and officially or unofficially,Williams wont come in at jr middle.

[JazMerkin]

What on earth is going on with Kelly Pavlik?

The guy has been neither here nor there since the Hopkins drubbing. I agree he should fight or have the hand cut off. It's getting a bit boring now. How does anyone keep getting infections in their hand?

Pavlik appears to have lost any sense of direction with his career and is now fighting once a year and only against the likes of Rubio. A bit pointless really.

Well there is an obvious one

[Gandalf]

What on earth is going on with Kelly Pavlik?

The guy has been neither here nor there since the Hopkins drubbing. I agree he should fight or have the hand cut off. It's getting a bit boring now. How does anyone keep getting infections in their hand?

Pavlik appears to have lost any sense of direction with his career and is now fighting once a year and only against the likes of Rubio. A bit pointless really.

Well there is an obvious one

Oh, not the dreaded wanking addiction. He needs to keep his gloves on and get back into rehab!

[Diane]

What makes this suck even more, is that it also screws us of the Clottey vs Quintana fight, since Goossen is running a December 5th card on his own now, and will not be including this fight.

[CFH]

Fuck Pavlik and fuck Jack Loew. That is all.

[No Contest]

Come on, he cant close his hand, how in the hell is he supposed to train? Give Pavlik a break, even though he originally fucked his hand up by replacing a window or some shit he shouldnt have been doing.

[No Contest]

Martinez is a good one, but I think Williams gets to him eventually wears him out with pressure. Martinez does move well though and is southpaw kind of fighter that gves Williams problems. I kind of wanna see this Dzinziruk that wants the fight as well.

[TheMacMagician]

This has just pissed me off for the rest of the day.

Williams would beat sergio martinez quite handily. Certainly not as tough a challenge as fightin pavlik would have been.

[HattonTheHammer]

Tell pavlik to go to hell, williams will just own him all night long anyway

Hope they dont give pavlik and leow the satisfaction of either cancelling the card or putting in a far inferior opponent with PW.

Would much rather see williams-sturm anyway!!

[Kev]

I can see why he would have a problem closing his hand, and boxing, when his hand looks like this.

If they could find a glove to put around that hand I'd pick him for a world title any day. Ok so his punches would be slow but if they landed they could knock down a house.

What causes these staff infections any way? You reckon it goes back to when he put his hand through a glass window last year?

[Nameless]

I can see why he would have a problem closing his hand, and boxing, when his hand looks like this.

If they could find a glove to put around that hand I'd pick him for a world title any day. Ok so his punches would be slow but if they landed they could knock down a house.

What causes these staff infections any way? You reckon it goes back to when he put his hand through a glass window last year?

Apparently, it is the same old glass thing who's more or less responsible for the infection.
Personally i am very frustrated, I really wanted to see this fight and I hope it'll happen eventually indeed.

[Pugilistic]

Jokes aside,

this is what Pavlik's hand looked over a month ago ( i think).

[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.