Kelly Pavlik Says "Sergio Mora is Just Like Rubio"

[MELLY-MEL...]

i see mora giving pavlik some trouble with movement, and a little speed early, but i'd think pavlik would get him eventually. terrible fight though. no one wants it.

[xxjace]

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[aztecadq]

Boring fight. Come on Kelly can't you find anyone else to fight?????

[dwidsid3d]

MAN,I lost ALL respect for KELLY PAVLIK.Makes fun of JERMAIN TAYLOR fighting SPINKS and OUMA makes fun of CALZAGHE for fighting an ancient HOPKINS (then fights an even MORE ANCIENT BERNARD HOPKINS.LOCKETT,RUBIO, now MORA ,cmon KELLY you can't keep avoiding the 10000lb elephant in the room ARTHUR ABRAHAM has never lost is a title holder who WANTS to unify but since he destroyed MIRANDA you and ARUM have been coming up with every excuse in the book."HE ISN'T WELL KNOWN ENOUGH?"like RUBIO and LOCKETT are world renown."HE DOESN'T BRING ENOUGH FANS"the guy fills a 20,ooo seat arena every time he fights.Why don't they just say the truth its too risky and there is a GOOD CHANCE KELLY would get ko'd.

[DrewWoodside]

I didn't mean the fight will be competitive but the herky jerky movement of Mora could throw off Pavlik for a round or two, I'm sure Mora will try to move a lot to Pavlik's left to avoid the right hand, which he probably can do better than Rubio did, but Pavlik should win this one without much difficulty, this could just be a little more competitive than the Rubio fight.

I think Mora can successfully ride his back to an irritating yet convincing UD loss. I hope to god Mora gets caught on the ropes but Mora fully intends to run this fight and it might make it difficult to knock him out.

[DrewWoodside]

Pavlik vs Mora............ the fight poster for that fight should be the picture next to the word JOKE in the dictionary.

This identical to the Taylor -vs- Spinks fight. The only difference being Spinks was slightly more legitimate than Mora IMO.

[MANGLER]

No, he likely stands even less a chance.

[Silencers]

I think Mora can successfully ride his back to an irritating yet convincing UD loss. I hope to god Mora gets caught on the ropes but Mora fully intends to run this fight and it might make it difficult to knock him out.

Yeah, Mora will fight very negatively, moving when he can, firing off the occasional, looking to hold when he can, it'll be a pretty uneventful fight.

[larryx]

"sergio mora is just like rubio"....so why is this fight happening

[seebert]

All this talk that Abraham's camp demanding too much money is bs.

Arum said some time ago that Sauerland asks for about $2 million plus German TV rights. Then it fired back at him as Sauerland stated publicly via ESPN and Setanta UK that he was asking nowhere near that kind of purse. Furthermore and to the understanding of a lot of boxing experts worldwide, Pavlik is like the springboard for Abraham, the chance to make serious money statesside IF he beats Pavlik but this is his big chance. And therefore camp Abraham said that they would take a shortcut for both exposure in the US (they were in talks of a main supporting bout to Pavlik's next) and the fight vs. Pavlik.

Though, I believe that such a plan would have included the term that if both AA and Pavlik would win in such a scenario (Pavlik main event, AA on the undercard), both would have to face each other next and this is what Arum does not have liked.

Btw, such plans (Pavlik ME, Abraham undercard) were mentioned by both camps late last month after Pavlik's win, but after Sauerland said he would talk about those plans with Top Rank, Arum was backpaddling this week saying, that 1. Abraham is too expensive for an undercard bout (look up my post for this being an excuse) and 2. Abraham must take care of himself and that Arum isn't responsible to expose him to the US public.
Sounds like a double standard when he first talked about AA needing a proper build-up before a fight vs. Pavlik, even saying that he'll talk to Sauerland.

Beside all this, HBO and SHO have a list of opponents they would except for Pavlik to face on their respective network and AA and Sturm are on top of that list. Duddy is also on that list with Vernon Forrest being out of it due to the prospect of facing Sergio Martinez in July/August which he is said having committed to...

So now, everyone can make up their mind on the whole situation with knowing those facts...

If abraham wanted it he could take peanuts and come get it. They are just as full of **** over there. They could unify with Sturm easy and put more pressure on Pavlik, but its boxing bro. Same BS everywhere. They do it with Berto, and all the other prospects. Milk'em. I agree Kelly is not ready but they will fight him, KP does not want to have the rep he is getting fighting C classes.