Pavlik takes Rubio's heart..shows better skillz..bring on Abraham..

KP is the man :deal

 

I don't believe you believe that for a minute. Nor do I think you should.

 

Well, Rubio had a pretty good defense for a while. He was not getting landed on flush all that much. Look at the final punch stats. % was pretty low. Kelly did leave himself open for counters, but Rubio couldn't pull the trigger. Not something I expect from AA. However, a big part of what Kelly did was control range when Rubio was on the ropes and punished him using his reach advantage. That grows bigger against AA.

 

Hell. Kelly should move up to SMW NOW and come to Ytown to fight Pavlik..........

 

Amazing how this look much different in the arena. Rubio sent sweat and spit flying from Pavlik and Pavlik looked hurt. Pipe was 6 rows back looking square on at Kelly when it happened. Looked the same to him I think. At that point, Rubio was throwing some shots that looked like they would do damage if landed. There were times I could see on the screens he looked a little slumped in his corner. The only time I thought he looked truely defeated was at the very end of round 9. But since he was already in his corner, no 'walk back' to judge from.

 

I was fortunate enough to attend the fight with press pass because of a Boxing/MMA Internet Radio Show my friend and I host on BlogTalkRadio. Sat five rows from the ring. Simply put, Pavlik executed his game plan very well, and Rubio didn't really seem to have one. He showed a lot of heart and a decent chin, but his offense was non-existent. I did have him winning the 6th round though. The main improvement I saw with Kelly was his consistent body work, which will be necessary if he hopes to beat AA. As for "not wanting to fight AA" I attend the post fight press conference and there were several questions about AA. I believe Pavlik wants to fight him, and I think Arum wants to make the fight. The problems they are going to face with making the fight are the same problems that typically occur between any US and European fighter. AA wants the fight in Germany, which Pavlik would be stupid to accept. Arum wants the fight in the US, for which AA's folks currently want too much money. Plus, AA doesn't have a huge name in the US so it is really a lose lose for Kelly. I think the fight will ultimately be made and I think it's a toss-up fight, but it may not occur until '10, unless AA's people accept less money to fight in the US or AA can win one or two quality fights in the US to establish more of a name here. He's a bad dude, though, and would give Kelly a hell of a fight.

 

That's where Kelly Pavlik's victims go to die:yep