Kelly, better get with a trainer who can help him mix it up better, if he wants even a remote chance of beating Lucian.
If Kelly, just chases him around looking for a big right hand they could fight in Youngstown, and there won't be any adversity.
That will be the end of pavlik's future. He looks & sounds about done now, but fighting bute is a bad idea.
HBO is a joke if they allow Staphlik/Bute. Why the F isn't Bute fighting the top guys at 168 instead of Staphlik coming off a loss?
i would be over the moon if that happened. its worrisome that, hypothetically, between rubio and bute there would be a 10 month layoff, two procedures for staph, 5 throw away rounds w/ espino, a sound defeat to martinez, then another 7-8 month layoff, then bute. kelly can compete at smw. but i think he should get some quality rounds in at that weight first.
Pavlik has a chance, with his power and chin he always has a chance. BTW, what ATG has Bute beaten to be considered this beast?? He has been "matched" well so far and 1 almost backfired, he can be KOed, in fact he was against Andrade.
there was a lot of baseball references in the khan/paulie fight. singles hitters trying to hit late inning homeruns, etc. well here's one that applies here. kelly is a homerun hitter. but he's had a rough few innings here and he's down by a lot. now, as any good coach will tell his hitters, even homerun hitters, as they go to bat after the other team put a big number on the board...you can't get it all back w/ one swing. i hope that is not what arum is doing. kelly can get it back. i truly believe that. but he aint gonna do it w/ one swing and after all he's been through that is what this kinda feels like.
With the Bika-Brinkley eliminator canceled, Bute probably as an opening in is schedule for this pointless fight. But hell, he as nothing better to do for a while.