And you needed tonight's fight to understand that?:huh Bernard didn't expose anything, everyone who had watched Kelly before knew how he fights. Truth is, as the LEGENDARY B-Hop said, it will be difficult to find someone who'll beat Pavlik at 160, where he is the champ. Don't let this loss fool you about Kelly. Think to WHO he lost and consider that Bernard gave the performance of his life in there. NOONE thought he could fight the way he did.
That was a little too much of a schooling. I think he was kinda exposed. :S. I mean every round? He wasn't fighting at his best, but again, every single round? And Hops is 43. I don't use the term exposed much, but he did get exposed here.
Hopkins just exposed Pavlik's weaknesses. That doesn't mean Pavlik is some hypejob. He's still the best 160 lber IMO.
Co-sign. Everybody tries to be a ****ing professor. KP is an excellent fighter who lost to a living legend, no shame in that and it doesn't make him any less of an excellent fighter. It's because of guys like this clown saying he's 'exposed' that fighters are terrified of getting an 'L'.
Naw man thats like saying that Hopkins was exposed by Calzaghe as a fighter who cant beat a southpaw with hand speed & footwork..... Pavlik wasnt exposed...he just came across a fighter who was better:yep
maybe a litte but I don't think it would have mattered. His timing even if Pavlik was off still would have won that fight, not to metion his conditioning.
No, he was exposed he barely won a round in a fight where he was a huge favourite. Double jab right hand don't work against the elite.
i thought hopkins was done. so glad oldman hoke proved me wrong. what a boxing lesson he taught pavlik.
I'm sorry but I can't join this train. Kelly was beaten tonight by a master technican an ATG who reached down deep. Kelly can still have great success at 160 and he's not finished by any means.
Yeah but theres nobody at middleweight apart from Abraham so you'll struggle to make the top dollar and don't underestimate how difficult it could be to come back from a brutal domination and humiliation like this, he was undefeated and a huge favourite against a 43 year old man and he basically got shut out.