How much do you think weight has affected Pavlik's performance?

[Mary Jane]

Pavlik is an idiot for taking the Hopkins fight. It may damn well have ruined his career. The win would have gotten him absolutely no credit because of the pre-fight predictions and Hopkins' age. Why Pavlik, as the Ring 160 champ, would once again go to a higher catchweight to fight instead of defending his titles at 160 is a mystery to me.

Money is the root of all evil.

[boxasmash]

He just fought a fighter slightly bigger than him and even more skilled, where as at middleweight he always had size advantage against people scared of his power.

[Mary Jane]

He just fought a fighter slightly bigger than him and even more skilled, where as at middleweight he always had size advantage against people scared of his power.

Pavlik doesn't have some kind of scary power, it's just that he's always coming at you. He's by no means a big middleweight.

[PittyPat]

Speaking of the dreaded C-word, who called for the catchweights when it came to Pavlik-Taylor II and Pavlik-Hopkins? Was it just something all parties agreed to without fuss?

[-PANDA-]

Yea like making them come up 10+ pounds to fight him.

panda thinks ure funny

the ghost weighs in unofficially for his bouts at 160 at 173-175 and people try to blame the b-hop loss on weight

panda has yet to see a modern day embarrassment and schooling as he saw in that fight

the ghost fought at the same pace (although his offense was nullified by bhops defense), with the same speed and the same game plan

panda was laughin when jack loew kept repeatin he should stick to the double jab, if that didnt spell out "one dimensional" for ya then ure a plain ass ******

[warp1432]

It's not weight, it's movement. Taylor added more movement in the rematch, which made Pavlik not look as good and then Hopkins is the master at movement and schooled him.

He looked like **** in the rematch against Rubio because he did the same ****ing 1-2- 1-2 DOUBLE THE ****ING JAB over and over again without showing any improvement after getting his ass handed to him

[The Hammer]

Pavlik is an idiot for taking the Hopkins fight. It may damn well have ruined his career. The win would have gotten him absolutely no credit because of the pre-fight predictions and Hopkins' age. Why Pavlik, as the Ring 160 champ, would once again go to a higher catchweight to fight instead of defending his titles at 160 is a mystery to me.

Money is the root of all evil.

I agree it was a bad decision, but it was greedy old Bob Arum, not Pavlik, who wanted the fight with Hopkins.

[warp1432]

It was Bob Arum, not Pavlik, who wanted the fight with Hopkins.

They sure were willing to fight him. Bragging about how they'd be the first ones to stop him blah blah blah

[STEELHEAD]

How much do you think weight has affected Pavlik's performance?


not as much as his team has.
he's got to shed his lousy corner.he's hampered by his homtown yes men.