A lot of posters are making a lot of claims regarding Kelly Pavlik. He's an alcoholic, ducking, skipping appointments etc.. Everyone has a right to his opinion and I completely respect that. IMO Pavlik should not have taken the fight with his hand in the condition it was in. Not because he wasn't advised it would heal in time but because in the event he didn't heal in time, he'd be in a position to face the ire of the entire boxing world. Some reasons I believe he took the fight are 1.) His Doctor advised the staph infection would be healed in time to train. 2.) Pavlik wanted to secure his HBO date and 3.) He wanted to silence his critics. The notion that Pavlik is running around town drunk and skipping Doctor's appointments due to disinterest is false IMO. If anyone has links proving he has skipped a Doctor's appointment since rescheduling the fight, please post it here. I do however understand any fans tired of waiting.
The picture linked below was taken on 09/28/2009, that's about 3 weeks ago(a fairly brief amount of time.) I definitely do not think Team Pavlik is without fault, it's a shame to watch his promising career put on hold for what should be a relatively brief injury. Out of Curiosity: What should Pavlik have done considering his situation(critics, inactivity, TV-date, money etc.) and the information he had at the time? Please discuss.
http://www.boxingscene.com/media/showphoto.php/photo/23765
ohhh.. didn't know what staph infection was.. look's like athlete's hand instead of foot
No, it's not like athlete's foot. That's caused by a fungus. Staph is a bacterial infection. Much worse than even the worst ever case of athlete's foot.
When you deal with professionals, you don´t leave your common sense at the door. No doctor can ever tell you with SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE how long it will take for an infection to resolve. He can give you the accepted course of antibiotics, and how long it should - key word s h o u l d - take to resolve. Too many variables to make a bold statement regarding a contract worth millions, specially when you are working with bacterial infection that could very well be resistant to antibiotics.
The doctor´s diploma can´t do sh*t about living organisms that mutate, for example.
People that deal with professionals - leaving common sense at home - is what makes people like Bernie Maddoff succeed in this world.
Pav-licks did.
What does common sense have to do with it. As I stated earlier, the man is caught between a doctor's professional opinion and the desire to fight + politics/business. It's more black & white then: use your common sense. You take the information at hand, consider the situation then make a decision. He had the opponent he wanted, the date, and likely what he considered to be an excellent opportunity to come back. If you wait on something like that, it may not be there in 6 months. Team Pavlik gambled and lost. The result is ultimately unprofessional, however it's far from being as simple as he doesn't have common sense or he doesn't care about his career. So frequently, NSB requires complex situations summed up by a single sentence, the reality is it's not that SIMPLE.
How the **** do some ppl get staph infections anyways?
Being extremely dirty? I mean I jog every single day probably around 7-8 miles if not more and I come home and the first thing I do is not take a shower but just rinse my face off because I lift weights later then I hit the showers.
I mean I constantly swet, probably more then anyone on the entire planet but I don't get the staph infection...
the body has natural defenses against microbes, but sometimes they can pass through via an open wound in the skin like a cut.
How the **** do some ppl get staph infections anyways?
Being extremely dirty? I mean I jog every single day probably around 7-8 miles if not more and I come home and the first thing I do is not take a shower but just rinse my face off because I lift weights later then I hit the showers.
I mean I constantly swet, probably more then anyone on the entire planet but I don't get the staph infection...
It has nothing to do with sweating. It's a bacterial infection, nothing more than that. People usually get it from a Hospital....ironic, I know, but true. Staphylococcus (there are several types) infections can be hard to get rid of simply because they are usually resistant to penicillin, and alternative antibiotics have to be used, like oxacillin and other antibiotics engineered for resistant strains of bacterium.
In people with even slightly compromised immune systems, it can be lethal. I saw a guy who had a 2 toes blown off by a training accident back in '88. He went to Bethesda and everybody joked about how lucky he was (could've been much, much worse). A few weeks later they were taking his leg off at the knee because of a staph infection he got at the hospital wasn't treated in time and his leg turned gangrenous. That means it started rotting off.
If he was not cured, he should not re-schedule.
It´s unprofessional. We are not talking about healing, we are talking about an uncontrolled infection.
He´s not scared, but he´s VERY UNPROFESSIONAL.
Pavlik and his team do not seem to have MD knowledge. They pay someone a lot of money to do that for them. This high priced doctor tells Team Pavlik they will be ready to fight, what do you think they do?
Do you think Kelly Pavlik can look at his hand and says.. "I'd give that infection a couple weeks tops. What do you think Jack?" Jack Leow then says "2 weeks and you're good, btw tripple that jab baby, and touch his nuts!" ???
No, he was told by a professional what to think and that's how he decided what to do.