Is Kelly Pavlik still in his prime?

If Pavlik beats Ward, I'll join Booradley's troups.

Yes I said it. :hat

 

Pavlik was lucky man he never run into King Arthur.

I dont think Kelly is in his very respectable prime anymore thou.

 

This fight would have been huge. :-(

 

Just had to quote it.....

 

I just watched the Ward/Froch fight again last night. Ward was able to lean on Froch, like he did Miranda, and push that bird legged ****er wherever he wanted to. Kelly has the leg strength to make that a stalemate and Garcia is working on Kelly's inside game. Kelly's strength was always his mid range. That leaves Ward with the long range strategy but Kelly has reach on him. Expect Ward to use movement. Kelly is very good at cutting off the ring and if he invests to the body in the early rounds the late rounds could be a lot different than people on this board are expecting. Kelly's leverage seems to gain respect from each of his opponents. They KNOW he has heavy hands but are always seem surprised just how heavy when they fight him.

If Kelly gets to Ward's body early and often he will stop him late.

 

No he is not and even when he was his only good wins came against Taylor.

The only other 2 top guys he faced he got outclassed

Not hating just the truth.

 

Here's the gospel: Andre Ward has flaws and makes mistakes. Prime, past prime, better than ever; whatever the case may be, KP has everything he needs to force Ward's nut-huggers to finally admit that Ward is not as good as Hopkins or Martinez.

 

I take it you also realize that Froch never threw a lead right, and never even attempted to use his shoulders and forearms to create space.

 

The part that's gonna get to people is how it hasn't been pointed out much that Ward is not very good at all when he is forced to go back.

ESB is gonna **** them britches. :deal

 

Let 'em figure that out on fight night.

 

This place is gonna melt down.

Ward has enough haters of his own, that's for damn sure, but these guys will NOT have wanted it to be Pavlik to show how it's done.

 

Because he can certainly put up as good a fight as any of these other so called "great" fighters have, so far.

 

Damn straight.

In the case of some of these fans, I really feel they are deep down worried that Pavlik will do better than some of their favorites may have this far. :deal

 

(Well, let's hope he does.)

 

Like your enthusiasm but can you honestly see Pavlik bagging more than a round or 2 ?