In Light Of Pavlik's Recent DUI

Alcohol has defeated many men.....having said that, Cheers to Pavlik's retirement....it was the best decision he could've made....

 

he should claim affluenza
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...rderer--or-a-victim-of-affluenza-9004308.html

 

start with his run up to the title. knocked out zuniga, mckart, zertuche and miranda. Hell Miranda is one of the best fights of that year. None had been stopped. He was a machine for a small window in time.

 

Yeah I mean he acually achived somethng only a few men in history has done so I wouldn't be too dissapointed.

A thing I remeber from that period was that he changed his training schedule alot before the hopkins fight and I acually think that was one of the many things that went wrong.

If something has worked for you and granted you the lineal title then why would you change it?

 

he was a mess after he won the title. some people used to post on here who were pretty close with his camp and it was pretty bad. they did a good job of covering it up but it was pretty bad.

 

He was a machine at that time no doubt. Can't take nothing away from what he did!!

 

jab jab straight right, rinse and repeat

horribly overrated American level plodder, aka the great white hoax

 

got overrated after he won the title because he put asses in seats. underrated on his way up to the title.

miranda was supposed to destroy him and manny steward was literally laughing at him before the taylor fight. you call that overrating?

you know not what you speak and are blinded by hate :deal

 

His fight with Miranda was awesome! Loved every minute of it!
His decline started after he lost to Hopkins, guess he just got depressed and couldn't stop getting into the liquor cabinet..

 

the great white hoax that smashed the faces of miranda and jermaine taylor. yea right!

 

I agree that he was under rated if anything on his way up to the title. He did beat one good fighter as taylor and thats it. He was fighting in weak era of middleweight and only fight what mathered on his short reign was aa fight which didnt happen. I think pavlik was strong champ even looked pretty limited to me.

I remember finnish amin asikainen was fighting at same time as ebu champ when kelly was reigning and even finnish boxing experts thought they would been worrying the health of asikainen if he and pavlik were in the same ring. What I mean with this pavlik was well respected.

 

AA was taking the all too familiar 'german path of least resistance' and wasn't on the international map
at least he stepped up for the SMW tournament

 

It's really hard to say what Pavlik could have accomplished if he wasn't on the booze. Not saying he would have gone down as an ATG, but he was a quality fighter with dangerous power at 160.

Alcoholism is no joke.

 

i agree that it wasn't the strongest mw era…that's for sure. but w/ martinez out and jr (who i never rated anyways) at cw…it was a much stronger division than it is now. i mean…there's 3G and then nothing better than what pavlik beat. i'd take prime taylor and prime miranda over anyone fighting at mw today not named 3G. and it was also how he beat the guys on his way up. i remember the zertuche fight and kellerman wasn't even sure pavlik could create "buzz" with the fight. zertuche was undefeated and got absolutely put to sleep.