It's strange to see how many fellers here dislike Kelly Pavlik...

Yeah, it's basically because he's being hugged in the extreme, it causes a backlash. When posters seriously insists that he could beat Hagler/Monzon/Robinson etc., it raises the hackles of other posters, and I understand that.

But he is everything YOU say he is, and i'm looking forward to his next fight, and then every one until he retires. He's a good boxer with a warrior's heart. I doubt we'll here anything about Kelly Pavlik ducking anyone in his remaining years, and that's what this sport needs, more than anything.

Two like him in every division and boxing would be back in the mainstream.

 

Well put like that, yes it is. But there are many that take the community quite seriously (i'm one of them, although I've been mostly unaffected by the Pavlik nuthuggery for reasons i've covered) and ESB does more to form boxing opinions than anything else that's out there, so I understand it.

Think about it - in your own life, have you come across a boxer who, in the media, was lauded and worhipped and triumphed before having really done anything? And didn't you want to see that fighter put on his ass,just to shut them up?

Same thing here.

Where are you from? In the UK we had Ricky Hatton. Now the Sky Sports network treated this kid like he was the second coming of Jesus Christ when he was still fighting at British/European level. I'm Scottish, Ricky is English (think Texan v Calafornian if you're from the states, maybe) so I'm not an automatic supporter anyway, but we are both British. By the time he stepped up to fight Kostya, there was a part of me wanting to see him beaten, just because the media blew him so hard. It just made me sick of his face.

He won me round, but I have to admit to thrilling just a touch when Floyd drilled him into the ring post...your enviroment shapes your opinions is the point.