The glorious reign of middleweight champ Kelly Pavlik

[Ray*]

He could have been the "All american" boy that Arum was hyping him up to be before he fought Taylor but somewhere along the line Top rank mess him up promoting-wise.

[cleaner147]

Pav is still young...

[Sweet Jesus]

Martinez is his first legit challenge he's defended his title against in about 2 and a half years.

Taylor 2 = not for the title
Hopkins loss = not for the title, above 160

The rest
Lockett
Rubio
Espino

Compared to Jermain Taylor's title reign, which consisted of 3 wins in a little under 2 years.

Ouma
Spinks
Hopkins

and a draw with Wink

Taylor's defenses, UD over Ouma, SD over Spinks, disputed UD vs. Hopkins, disputed Draw vs. Winky.

Pavlik's defenses, KO, KO, KO.

[Sweet Jesus]

His reign has been an enormous dissapointment.

However, there is still PLENTY of time to put the pieces back together, and fighting Martinez and then likely BUTE is definitely a great step in the right direction

Man, **** Bute. Stay at 160 and defend the ****ing belt.

[dans]

Taylor's defenses, UD over Ouma, SD over Spinks, disputed UD vs. Hopkins, disputed Draw vs. Winky.

Pavlik's defenses, KO, KO, KO.

Against Bum, Bum, Bum

[Bushidō]

Pavlik gonna winnnnnn

[FloydTBE]

Pavlik by TKO

[Sweet Jesus]

Against Bum, Bum, Bum

What do you call Ouma and Spinks at 160?

[Imhotep]

Sadly - and I openly admit this - because Pavlik is white he is 'protected' because of the money white american fans bring in. Sad but true. For this reason alone martinez will get robbed this weekend if the fight gores to points.

That said just for the record I see alot of black fans only support or give credit to black fighters while discrediting white fighters.

What a sad sad world we live in.

Anyway yeah Pavlik sucks ass. Needs to step up or step aside.

I was thinking the same thing for weeks about Martinez getting robbed.And if Kelly Pavlik was black alot of people would be talking about how he does`nt fight anybody and that he cherry pick his opponents.

[dans]

I like Pavlik. And I really wish and hope that he lives up to his potential. There's just no arguing the fact that his title reign has been a disappointment so far.