By Jake Donovan - In July 2006, a brand new boxing series was presented by Top Rank on Outdoor Life Network (which would later become VERSUS). The evening’s main event saw then-undefeated prospect Kelly Pavlik stop former junior middleweight titlist Bronco McKart in six rounds.
Pavlik would fight once more on the series before graduating to the contender level. He eventually went on to become the World middleweight champion, 14 months after the launching of what would become the VERSUS Fight Night series.
Even with Pavlik going through peaks and valleys over the past year and change, it can still be said that his stay at the top (which is still in progress) outlasted the series, as Top Rank and VERSUS parted ways in 2008.
However long their latest venture (“Top Rank Live”, to run on Fox Sports Español) lasts, there is one fighter in particular - undefeated junior middleweight prospect Vanes “The Nightmare” Martirosysan - who hopes that awaiting him is a similar fate enjoyed by Pavlik, sans the peaks and valleys, of course. [Click Here To Read More]
Pavlik would fight once more on the series before graduating to the contender level. He eventually went on to become the World middleweight champion, 14 months after the launching of what would become the VERSUS Fight Night series.
Even with Pavlik going through peaks and valleys over the past year and change, it can still be said that his stay at the top (which is still in progress) outlasted the series, as Top Rank and VERSUS parted ways in 2008.
However long their latest venture (“Top Rank Live”, to run on Fox Sports Español) lasts, there is one fighter in particular - undefeated junior middleweight prospect Vanes “The Nightmare” Martirosysan - who hopes that awaiting him is a similar fate enjoyed by Pavlik, sans the peaks and valleys, of course. [Click Here To Read More]
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