Kelly Pavlik Logs In Worst Perfomance of His Career

I took a lot of heat for my original post, and it was over the top. However, all I really did was point out that Pavlik's performance was awful, and probably the worst performance of his career. It seems odd to me that the majority of the posters who insist that I should lavish praise on Martinez are the same people who claimed Pavlik was never any good to begin with, and that he was always over rated, et. These are the same people who also constantly belittled his past oppossition, and insisted he lost the second Taylor fight. You can't have it both ways. If Pavlik was an over rated one dimensional robot who lost the second Taylor fight, then it was not a good win for Martinez. If you want to claim this as great win for Martinez, you have to admit Pavlik is at least a very good fighter. You can't have a great win over a shitty fighter, especially not if you lose at least four rounds, and get knocked down in the process.

As far as Pavlik's perfomance is concerned, if that wasn't the worst performance of his career, then answer these questions.

How come a fighter with a history of turning fights around with body shots only threw about three body shots during the entire fight even though he had many opportunities?

How come a fighter with a history of bullying big strong middleweights did nothing in the clinches but stand there and wait for the ref to break them?

How come a fighter whose best weapon is his right hand missed 12 opportunities to unleash a right hand in just the first 3 rounds? (I actually stopped counting missed opportunites at that point.)

How come a fighter who normally has a very good left hook hardly used the left hook?

Pavlik is capable of dropping tough guys with uppercuts, and Martinez is often wide open for uppercuts. How come Pavlik didn't throw any?

How come a fighter who normally throws over 70 punches per round, and has thrown over 100 a few times, couldn't let his hands go?

Just look at the facts. That was a far cry from the best Kelly Pavlik we've ever seen.