
Pavlik Discusses Pacquiao-Bradley, Mayweather-Cotto
At the height of his career, former middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik was one of the hottest names in the sport of boxing.

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At the height of his career, former middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik was one of the hottest names in the sport of boxing.

It’s hard to imagine what was going through the mind of Juan Manuel Marquez on the night of November 12th, 2011.

While lineal middleweight champion Sergio Martinez continued his winnings ways this past Saturday night, stopping a game-but-outgunned Matthew Macklin after ten rounds of action inside of The Theatre at Madison Square Garden, his performance left a little to be desired. Getting off to a slow start and even having a knockdown called against him in the seventh round, Martinez saw the contest very close on the scorecards just before his late-round heroics where he dropped a bloodied Macklin twice in the tenth.

In a matter of a few weeks, Cuba’s Richard Abril went from a relative unknown commodity to landing the biggest fight of his career. On April 14th, Abril, a 17-2-1 (8 KO’s) lightweight hopeful, will fill in for his countryman Yuriorkis Gamboa when he challenges former lightweight champion Brandon Rios inside of the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on HBO pay per view.

One of the great things about being a fighter on a hot streak is the added anticipation of what your next ring endeavor will present.

Things can change within the drop of a pin in the boxing world. Earlier this month the anticipation towards the sport’s next big show, a mouthwatering clash between former champions Brandon Rios and Yuriorkis Gamboa, was the talk of the town. All the hype died down, however, when Gamboa skipped out on a pair of press conferences in Miami and Los Angeles on Monday, March 5th and Tuesday, March 6th, respectively, raising questions as to whether or not he even wanted the fight.

This coming Saturday, Philadelphia’s Danny Garcia will look to fulfill one of his dreams when he challenges WBC junior welterweight champion and Mexican legend Erik ‘El Terrible’ Morales in a very winnable fight at the Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas.

The world-recognized best middleweight, Sergio 'Maravilla' Martinez, was in the spotlight again last night as he carved up a late-round stoppage over brave-but-outgunned Matthew Macklin inside of The Theatre at Madison Square Garden. Overcoming a slow start that saw him dropped in the sixth round, Martinez would turn up the heat late in the fight as he registered a pair of knockdowns in the eleventh round that had the Birmingham, England fighter’s corner electing to throw in the towel in between rounds.

Having recently won the WBA junior featherweight championship of the world, Guillermo Rigondeaux seems eager to get back into the ring.

The boxing world is still buzzing over the heroics of Sonora, Mexico’s Orlando Salido this past weekend.