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by Robert Morales - Kelly Pavlik started off by speaking softly. But by the time he got done with a telephone interview Wednesday, he was steamed at the recent rumor that had him entering a rehabilitation clinic because of a problem with alcohol.
The story first broke on RingTalk. Before Pavlik knew it, his entire hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, was abuzz. The story grew bigger and bigger and eventually he was to have recently done all sorts of bad things.
Let's see, he got into a fight in the middle of a Youngstown street and was arrested. Here's another one: "I broke a beer bottle over someone's head and stabbed him." Through all of this, his father, Mike, was supposed to have died, according to yet another unsubstantiated rumor.
Well, we spoke to Mike Pavlik as well Wednesday, so he is very much alive. Such is the life of a superstar athlete living in a fairly small town where he is the only person everybody cares a lot about.
"I missed one charity event and it turned into a whole complete opposite thing of what happened," said Pavlik, who holds two of the four middleweight title belts. "The people here in Youngstown, there is one story and they want to run with it and turn it into every possible story. Did I stab someone? Did I shoot someone? I don't live in New York or Los Angeles, I live in Youngstown.
"The only name (in Youngstown) is my name and if I s**t the wrong way, it hits the paper. It totally got blown out of proportion because it started in Youngstown and everybody got wind of it."
Pavlik, incidentally, said he didn't want to sound ****y by saying he is the only name in Youngstown. But it is what it is.
The story on RingTalk centered on anonymous sources, but Pavlik said he believes he knows how this all began.
"We have an idea where it started, but you just can't touch on that," said Pavlik, who said that none of the aforementioned rumors hold any truth. "There are a couple of ideas on who started it." [details]
The story first broke on RingTalk. Before Pavlik knew it, his entire hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, was abuzz. The story grew bigger and bigger and eventually he was to have recently done all sorts of bad things.
Let's see, he got into a fight in the middle of a Youngstown street and was arrested. Here's another one: "I broke a beer bottle over someone's head and stabbed him." Through all of this, his father, Mike, was supposed to have died, according to yet another unsubstantiated rumor.
Well, we spoke to Mike Pavlik as well Wednesday, so he is very much alive. Such is the life of a superstar athlete living in a fairly small town where he is the only person everybody cares a lot about.
"I missed one charity event and it turned into a whole complete opposite thing of what happened," said Pavlik, who holds two of the four middleweight title belts. "The people here in Youngstown, there is one story and they want to run with it and turn it into every possible story. Did I stab someone? Did I shoot someone? I don't live in New York or Los Angeles, I live in Youngstown.
"The only name (in Youngstown) is my name and if I s**t the wrong way, it hits the paper. It totally got blown out of proportion because it started in Youngstown and everybody got wind of it."
Pavlik, incidentally, said he didn't want to sound ****y by saying he is the only name in Youngstown. But it is what it is.
The story on RingTalk centered on anonymous sources, but Pavlik said he believes he knows how this all began.
"We have an idea where it started, but you just can't touch on that," said Pavlik, who said that none of the aforementioned rumors hold any truth. "There are a couple of ideas on who started it." [details]
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