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Miranda officially dropped drastically in my personal middleweight rankings after that horrid performance. It was entertaining to see them exchanging, standing toe-toe and competing blow for blow, but Miranda looked tired from the start. His defense was nonexistant and his punches consistently were off target and looping often lacking power as well -- extremely inefficient. If he doesn't drastically change his fighting style, he will never be ranked #1 in the middleweight division -- ever. Needless to say I was very disappointed by Miranda's sloppy performance, but I was impressed by Pavlik, or at least to a degree. However, the fact that some of those sluggish looping Miranda power punches landed is proof enough that Pavlik has fine tuning to do if he wants to challenge Taylor. As for Miranda, I can't see him ever being a serious top ranked contender ever again after that pathetic performance.
