For 6 months, Kelly Pavlik was great.

The brutal stoppage of Edison Miranda followed by the equally as brutal stoppage of Jermain Taylor to win the lineal Middleweight title. That really was something. What has happened to this man and will he ever return? I recall talk of him being an alcoholic and involved in crime? He's still only 34 years old. Pavlik had a weird career after winning the mw crown. He had that odd, catchweight rematch with Taylor and then fought Lockett and then jumped up at another catch weight to fight Hopkins. After the fight Pavlik complained that he had suffered from pneumonia (I think it was) which led to his training camp being disrupted. When Pavlik finally came back to mw, seemed to be off the alcohol and drugs for a while, he was starting to look his old self. Then along came the true great mw of his gen, Martinez and Pavlik was essentially taken apart.

Pavlik was really good at Middleweight. Shame we never got that Pavlik-Paul Williams fight. That was really anticipated and sadly fell through twice. Back in the 2009-2010 that was one of the biggest fights in boxing.

kelly pavlik is never coming back he's finished. his demons got the best of him.too bad we never got that pavlik vs paul williams fight that was supposed to happen that would have been awesome. That would've been a brutal fight. Real exciting too. I think it was officially made at one point and was set to happen, but Pavlik got a staph infection I think and had to cancel. After that, it was over.

I don't want to see him come back. No reason for him to. If he wants to make a comeback, make a comeback as a trainer. He's pretty well known in his hometown. I bet he could run a pretty successful boxing gym.

Pavlik was great for boxing, I miss his fights. Too bad he couldnt shake his daemons. This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^.

Pavlik was the top dog at MW when he took down Taylor. Had impressive power. Hopkins convincingly beat him in their non title fight. Wasn't even close. Certainly hurt his career, although he was still considered the champ. Sergio Martinez is the one who took his thrown. bloodied him up bad. In the end, the dude's an alcoholic. He has at least one DUI on his record, maybe more. His career's done and has been done since he lost to Martinez. He had his 15 seconds of fame in boxing. He'll be best known for taking down Taylor. His best win.

kelly pavlik is never coming back he's finished. his demons got the best of him.too bad we never got that pavlik vs paul williams fight that was supposed to happen that would have been awesome.

Pavlik was a helluva fighter.. I wish he could have hung around longer. He was in some great fights.

he was a guy much like ricky hatton whos problems with booze and depression increased after suffering their first professional defeats...naz was another fighter whos bad habits became worse after losing for the first time

I miss his fights very much so, he has pure talent. He never had a knockout loss in his career.

Old man Bernard took his soul ... it was the booz, not B-Hop...

Andre ward ducked pavlik & went & had shoulder surgery instead of fight'em

Kelly had very good skills along with a huge size advantage at MW. Hopkins who started his career at LHW and then returned to LHW, neutralized Pavlik's size advantage and completely aced Pavlik in technique and ring IQ. As rough a defeat as that was to Hopkins, alcoholism took Pavlik down. There were stories of his drinking binges coming out well before he fought Hopkins. But he was winning and on top of the world, so instead of being labled an alcoholic, he was just seen as a party guy. His coach - Jack Lowe used to talk about how they'd go out drinking at the bars and get in fights with guys. It just caught up to him, whether the loss to Nard sped up the process or not. He was winning the Martinez fight after 7 rounds when he completely gassed out. He spent two weeks of his training camp for Sergio at the Betty Ford clinic.

Old man Bernard took his soul