A couple years ago this would have been an important fght. Simple question: Considering the history, the good -- the bad -- and the ugly, would you still like to see this fight?
My money is on the bald dude. It would not be as important of a fight as it would have been but they are both high quility boxers. The winner would be right back in the thick of things.
The hardest part of speculating about a future Pavlik/Abraham fight is the weight issues. AA expressed a desire to go back to 160. This video shows Pavlik at about 180 pounds. He looked good enough that no one had a clue he just left The Betty Ford Center a couple days before HBO shot the video. - [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIt5YxQ6GOI[/ame] - - KP and AA may never again be in the same weight class. If they are, I'd still like to see that fight.
I mean, it isn't irrelevant. it's not the most relevant matchup but at the end of the day it's a good crossroads fight. Pavlik wins and he shows he can still hang in there with top fighters from that area, and if Abraham wins, it means the same thing, and it gets the ball rolling for either guy. what it doesn't mean however, is that either of them can convincingly beat elite boxers, and the top fighters in both the middleweight and supermiddleweight divisions are skilled technicians for the most part, so they both are pretty much done at this point unless they start pulling out some dramatic knockout wins
The meaningfulness to boxing history would be a tenth of what it was before when, at the perfect time both had middleweight titles and were undefeated, but it would be one I'd like to see.
Before this would have been the biggest fight at Middleweight since BHop - Tito. They need to make a MW tournament again. Kelly Pavlik vs Pirog Abraham vs Sturm
considering how...as it turns out...its been harder and harder for him to make weight the harder and harder he hit the bottle, maybe a sauce free kelly can make 160 much easier.