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At this point it's clear the top two middleweights in the game are Kelly Pavlik and Arthur Abraham. Alot of people have switched opinions on who would win after watching Kelly get beat by Bernard Hopkins by a wide margin.
Now everyone who's opinion changed, I wanna mainly speak to. You see Abraham knocking Kelly out at 160, I am assuming, because most polls show no one really thinks he's getting a decision against Pavlik. He's too inactive, and he's not Bernard Hopkins. But Kelly doesn't have a ***** chin. He took alot of punishment from a very in shape and game B-Hop and stood his ground. He has been knocked down before but has always gotten up. His conditioning is top-notch, especially at 160. Kelly will win either by KO, or by UD. Why? Because Kelly is a busy, come forward fighter fighting the shorter man. Much shorter than B-Hop. Abraham likes to fight in bursts:turtle shell defense, then bursts of power. But Kelly has taken the best punches of guys who fight like that. I'm talking Miranda and Taylor, guys who have if not more, at least as much power as Abraham(Taylor maybe slightly less but almost on the level). He will be able to deal with AA's outbursts. Furthermore, the time that AA rests on the ropes with his gloves up will not be as easy for him as has been in the past. Kelly knows how to deal with guys on the ropes as well as almost anyone in the game. Many of you forget that that's pretty much his bread and butter. And if any positives came out of the Rubio fight, it was Kelly's relentless work to the body, which ultimately made Rubio give up. So AA can sit on the ropes, but his ribs will take a beating, making him more tired than he would have otherwise been, making him ripe for a KO or UD. If you disagree or agree please comment.
Now everyone who's opinion changed, I wanna mainly speak to. You see Abraham knocking Kelly out at 160, I am assuming, because most polls show no one really thinks he's getting a decision against Pavlik. He's too inactive, and he's not Bernard Hopkins. But Kelly doesn't have a ***** chin. He took alot of punishment from a very in shape and game B-Hop and stood his ground. He has been knocked down before but has always gotten up. His conditioning is top-notch, especially at 160. Kelly will win either by KO, or by UD. Why? Because Kelly is a busy, come forward fighter fighting the shorter man. Much shorter than B-Hop. Abraham likes to fight in bursts:turtle shell defense, then bursts of power. But Kelly has taken the best punches of guys who fight like that. I'm talking Miranda and Taylor, guys who have if not more, at least as much power as Abraham(Taylor maybe slightly less but almost on the level). He will be able to deal with AA's outbursts. Furthermore, the time that AA rests on the ropes with his gloves up will not be as easy for him as has been in the past. Kelly knows how to deal with guys on the ropes as well as almost anyone in the game. Many of you forget that that's pretty much his bread and butter. And if any positives came out of the Rubio fight, it was Kelly's relentless work to the body, which ultimately made Rubio give up. So AA can sit on the ropes, but his ribs will take a beating, making him more tired than he would have otherwise been, making him ripe for a KO or UD. If you disagree or agree please comment.
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