I think he has a fight planned for next month (or early Nov?) at 147! that's crazy to me. I like what Paul Williams is doing
Nov.29th is the date the promoter had reserved at HBO, I think. Yeah, it sounds pretty crazy but doable if this Kolle guy is only a glorified sparring sessionl
Right now, the biggest fight on WW Division would be PW vs. Margarito. Then again, one of them doesn't want to fight the other one. All I kinow is that PW wants to fight anyone. I guess the so-called-most-feared-man-in-boxing is afraid of another man. I can't blame PW for the fight. Noone else wants to fight him anyway.
The amount of idiocy in this thread is above even normal boxingscene levels. It is like this place is oblivious to logic. Williams has an HBO date two months after that fight. It is a tune up. Do people here not understand the concept? Or did people here not know he has the date? He has fought less than a round since the early days of February. The only 9 month lay off he has ever had was the lead up to the Margarito fight. He obviously just doesn't want to go into an HBO fight, against whomever it may be, with a long lay off again. Since when did tune ups seriously become unacceptable? It is baffling.
Also, did I actually read comments about Paul Williams moving up to 160 like it was a risk? First off, he IS a middleweight. Look at his frame. He has always been a middleweight. He can just somehow make welterweight so he does. He is always moving down to welterweight and it must about kill him. With two months to go, 13 pounds isn't far off from where he needs to be all things considered come November. I'd be surprised if he didn't come in closer to 154 anyway. He probably just doesn't want to stress about being under 154. His days at 147 are about at their end, three more fights tops, and it won't be long after that before he won't be able to make 154 either. When Paul Williams is old and washed up and looking for a check (or if you think more of him than I do, maybe a P4P elite for the ages), he will fight at light heavyweight.
Using boxrec as my source, let me show you his weight issues for the uniformed. He has fought 36 fights. Boxrec does not have official weights for two of those, so of the 34 I have data for the breakdown looks like this:
At Middleweight: 12 fights
At Junior Middleweight: 16 fights
At Welterweight: 8 fights
Sometimes he was barely in the weight classes, other times he was all the way up to 160 or down to 146, but the fact remains that he has fought twice as many fights under the 154 limit than the 147, and has even fought more times as a middleweight than a welterweight.
I think he can only make 147 for one more fight and that's it. Williams can forget about Maragrito, Cotto, Mosley, or any of the other top names in 147. Williams should be shooting for the big names in 154 and above.
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