Kelly Pavlik: "That Wasn't Me in There, I Had Nothing"

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

sounds like an overtrained fighter. It happens in boxing more than any other sport and that's probably what happened here.. Not to mention the added weight. Fighters need to get smarter about moving up to weight divisions. You don't need to weigh what is required to be effective at a higher weight. It is too your advantage to be lighter than the naturally bigger guy, your speed and activity rate will give the heavier guy problems. Not that Kelly is a speed demon, but his work-rate has always been much greater than Hopkins. Kelly is still a middleweight and should stay there until he can't make the weight any longer...

Walt.

He has fought there before. He is not smaller than Hopkins. Stop yourself.

[ACHlLLES]

Walt.

He has fought there before. He is not smaller than Hopkins. Stop yourself.

Dios and I aren't friends but we agree with each other and agree that weight shouldn't be an issue. Hopkins went up to 175 and beat the bigger man tarvers ass for the belt.

[!! Shawn]

He even made Jones look pretty bad back then, I mean Jones was the only one I've seen beat him convincingly but he made Jones look bad as well.

No he didn't that is just ignorant. Go back and watch the fight again Silencers, you are smarter than that. Roy Jones won comfortably, and with little trouble. Bernard didn't even come close to making Roy look bad.

[Derranged]

If this article is quoting what Pavlik said in the video interview it's more of Pavlik being in shock than being a bad loser, he totally did not know how he lost that fight.

I agree with this... He never struck me as someone who would be a sore loser.

[Dan...]

No he didn't that is just ignorant. Go back and watch the fight again Silencers, you are smarter than that. Roy Jones won comfortably, and with little trouble. Bernard didn't even come close to making Roy look bad.

Whilst Roy didn't look "bad" in that fight he certainly looked more limited than in any fight I have seen him in pre-Tarver.

[pit]

It's not excuse it's a fact.. He may not beat Hopkins in any weight class but it's a fact he move up 2 division higher to fight Hopkins..

Can you imagine Margarito and Mosley calling out the Lightweights.?

jesus it wasn't two weight classes, it was a catch weight at 170 and pavlic came in at 169 which is what he alway steps into the ring at .

[BetterCallSaul]

If Hatton didnt over train, he would have KO 1 Mayweather.

[Silencers]

No he didn't that is just ignorant. Go back and watch the fight again Silencers, you are smarter than that. Roy Jones won comfortably, and with little trouble. Bernard didn't even come close to making Roy look bad.

He made Jones look worse than anyone had up to that point, he made Jones look pretty limited as danc said, I've watched the fight many times, Jones looked way worse than his 'superman' self.

[Still Pimpin]

Jones and Hop owned the past 15 years

Jones was like a ****in super hero to me and I was not happy with the B-hop fight. B-hop looked stronger than Jones at the end and it looked like JOnes was running out of tricks by the end and was going to end up having to **** it out with Hop.

I am a true Jones fan and I do believe B-hop gave him more trouble than any other fighter he faced prior to his demise. Fact is if the Jones -Hop fight wen 15 rounds I don't know how it would've ended. Hopkins was outclassed by Jones but Jones was not at all anxious to fight B-hop again !!!

[Fox McCloud]

No he didn't that is just ignorant. Go back and watch the fight again Silencers, you are smarter than that. Roy Jones won comfortably, and with little trouble. Bernard didn't even come close to making Roy look bad.

He looked about 25% as good as Roy Jones normally did.

It's not that Hopkins was winning a bunch of rounds, but... as usual, Hopkins did have Roy hesitant to throw punches that just flowed from him against Toney.