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Something to think about and maybe it changes your view on one or both boxers is Pavlik against Sergio weighed unofficially at 178 and for his CW fight against Fragomeni, Zsolt Erdei weighed the same at 178 at the official weigh in but in a CW fight there is no reason to think he was really any heavier in the actually fight since he could have weighed in as high as 200lbs for the official scaling.
I makes you think, how would each fighter have done against each others opponent in each of their last outings. Also a natural question would be who would win between these two if they fought since both guys are physically SMWs really?
When you think about it either makes Zsolt look alot better than he is given credit for being able to win a CW title while being 22lbs under the weight limit and the same size as the former lineal MW champion or it makes Pavlik look very overrated and limited that he is the same size as a guy who won a CW belt and lost to a JMW who started at WW.
The fact that Pavlik came in so heavy and cuts so much weight to make MW makes the whole "catch weight mismatch" excuse against Bernard look weak because Hopkins is not one of these LHWs who walks around in the mid-upper 190s and in reality is only a few lbs heavier than Pavlik naturally.
Would Erdei get the benefit of the doubt as being the "smaller man" if he lost to Hopkins even though he is slightly and the same size as Pavlik? I doubt it
Just some thoughts here, comments, opinions?
I makes you think, how would each fighter have done against each others opponent in each of their last outings. Also a natural question would be who would win between these two if they fought since both guys are physically SMWs really?
When you think about it either makes Zsolt look alot better than he is given credit for being able to win a CW title while being 22lbs under the weight limit and the same size as the former lineal MW champion or it makes Pavlik look very overrated and limited that he is the same size as a guy who won a CW belt and lost to a JMW who started at WW.
The fact that Pavlik came in so heavy and cuts so much weight to make MW makes the whole "catch weight mismatch" excuse against Bernard look weak because Hopkins is not one of these LHWs who walks around in the mid-upper 190s and in reality is only a few lbs heavier than Pavlik naturally.
Would Erdei get the benefit of the doubt as being the "smaller man" if he lost to Hopkins even though he is slightly and the same size as Pavlik? I doubt it
Just some thoughts here, comments, opinions?
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