Now now... I'd like to see Lopez getting a big shot either vs. Pavlik or vs. another top guy, but I'd favor the following guys to beat him: Martinez, Pavlik, Williams, Sturm, Zbik, Sylvester, Pirog, Golovkin, N'Dam N'Jikam, Wright, Geale, Mundine, Macklin, Gevor, and with some question marks, Jacobs, Barker, Guerrero, and Lemieux.
Has it been determined what weight Kelly will be fighting at? I wish he would just move up to 168 already. Marcus Johnson or Francisco Sierra would make likely choices to break him into the division while in Texas.
Cause Pavlik would get outboxed silly. They are going to put a low level slugger in with Pavlik to make him look good and the public will take to him again. It aint going to be a top 5 fighter or a slick fighter.
One would think you'd be a bit more realistic outside of the pro-Pavlik and Martinez/Abraham hating threads... Lopez is on an excellent run vs. C and B- level guys and deserves a title shot... be he never came close to beat a guy on those fighters level. Which one would Lopez beat in your opinion, and based on what?
He won't beat Martinez, Williams, or Pavlik, obviously for different reasons, but you can't rate unproven prospects above him. He only dropped off the Ring top 10 list due to inactivity. Now that he's back, there isn't any reason not to put him right back on the list.
Somebody needs to wake up booradley to reality. Lopez is a c- level fighter who has 12 losses in which he was ko 9 freaking times. I don't care if he has a winning streak in the last 5 years. Who has he beat to have those winning streak? His biggest win is against freaking Roman lol. I'm not surprise at all that Booradley never mention Winky Wright cause he knows even Wright right now would outbox Pavlik silly.