If Pavlik Is "average" Why Is There A Rematch Clause?

No, Pavlik will be 1-0-0 with a KO. After the rematch, he will be 2-0-0, with (2) KO's.

 

Jermain said that Miranda was overrated in the Cory Spinks post-fight interview cause "Pantera" had been taken care of after having trashed him all the way up until then and Taylor emphasized later ( in the NYC presser) that Kelly was on the same seat he knew himself to be three years ago when Jermain was 25 years old, a top WBC contender and a middleweight promise against Bernard - surely "The Executioner" diminuished Taylor much more due to the DiBella sub-plot - I guess that Manny and Jermain have the right to enhance their superior top level experience, there's no disrespect here, actually the fight is billed as "Perfect Match" and that already tells a lot about mutual respect...

 

The re-match clause doesn't surprise me, as it's a very common thing when a champ puts his belt on the line.

I'm with you 100%, though, on not understanding why a fighter would downgrade his opponent prior to the fight. If you beat a guy you called a bum, what credit do you get for that? And I don't think it gives you any advantage mentally. I doubt Kelly is sitting there thinking, "Wow, they called me a bum. It must be true. I have no chance."

 

God, why the **** does anybody care what fighters and promoters say about fights? It's all a bunch of bull**** hype meant to bring in the WWE crowd. It's all buisness to these guys, and so what they say about it is a buisness decision. Period. **** the soap opera hype guys. Just watch the fights.

 

He couldn't insist for a mandatory rematch clause because he was the mandatory. For a counterpoint, see N'dou, who had a rematch clause with Malinaggi that he's been trying to get DiBella to honor.

The reason they don't get rematch clauses against far inferior fighters is that the promoter usually gets options on the opponent instead.

 

Because in Boxing, anything can happen. ref. Douglas vs Tyson or Rahman vs Lewis..
in the case of Rahman vs Lewis, Lewis was smart enough to put in a remach clause and they had to take Rahman to court to get the rematch.

 

This is true...it is really irrelevant what anyone says before a fight. In the end, fighters let their fists do the talking in the ring.
How many times have we heard guys say "ive trained harder than ever before" and they run out of gas in the late rounds. "i feel the best ive ever felt" and they look like crap in the ring. "I will knock him out and thats a guarantee" and they dont get a knockout. It doesn't matter... in the end, punches speak louder than words.

 

Denegrating your upcoming opponent as being below-par has always seemed moronic to me.

 

Nothing abnormal here, he probably did have one with Spinks and Ouma as well. You guys are grasping at straws now.

 

Yeah, but De La Hoya will say he feels great, even though he may be suffering from a heart attack. Look at the fight with Felix Sturm. He said he had prior to the fight he felt great coming into the fight just as he had said on all his other previous bouts. We all know he didn't take that fight and his training for that fight as serious when he had taken off his shirt.

 

De La Hoya also is kind of tense when he fights. He's never really looked that relaxed in there, which helps you in not fatiguing as much.