Just days away before Martinez meets his maker.

Martinez will win and the Pav-lickers will refute the decision, claiming Pavlik had a stomach flu or HIV or whatever else they can think of.

 

Cintron was Feb 2009, but that was still for the interim title. According to Wikipedia, Forrest was stripped on May 21st last year, so is now 10 months that Martinez has been champion without defending.

 

And the WBC was going to strip Pavlik even though he had a documented medical problem at about the 10 month mark? :huh Dr. Corrupt Sulliedman has shown a bias towards Latin fighters from time to time as far as I can tell. Think his being Mexican has anything to do with it? I wonder if he bought his 'Dr.' title.

 

You mean Calzaghe?

If so, maybe, unlike Pavlik, he wants to give his fans close fights to watch? Whilst Pavlik is happy milking the rednecks for all they are worth against the Lockett's and Rubio's, Calzaghe would prefer to give his fans competitive fights.

...which is why he chose a shot Jones, because even he put up a better fight than Pavlik would have

Pavlik spiralled into drink after the beating Hopkins gave him. Had that been Pavlik vs. Calzaghe, your pasty bald hero may have shot himself. Think of how generous that was of Calzaghe. He actually saved Pavlik's life.

A true champion inside the ring and out.

 

Pete Manfredo, Jr says hello

 

Ah, Manfredo. If Calzaghe showed mercy against Pavlik, he could choose to beat him like he beat Manfredo. If Calzaghe was having a bad night, he would assault Pavlik. The beating he gave Lacy would look like a close fight in comparison.

Joe 'The Merciful' Calzaghe.

 

Your hero ran to cocaine to avoid Kelly. Deal with it.

 

Yeah, those were his two options in his own mind at the time. 'Pavlik or cocaine...hmm...I guess cocaine.'

 

Hermit likes to think so. In reality the two options of his mind were "three million dollars or ten milllion dollars, hmmm, lets see..."

 

The left jab, left jab, right hand combination would be too much for one of the better rhythm fighters(offensively and defensively) of the past decade to deal with.

 

Some posters are like bells. You strike them and they ring for an hour. When they stop, ya just strike em again.

 

That's right. Kelly offered him ten and he 'may' have gotten three with his flopped promotion.

 

Of course he did :rofl

Yet, for some reason, Pavlik and Hopkins only got 3.5 million each from their fight?

I wonder if Hopkins knew at the time that he was getting one third as much as Top rank apparantly offered Calzaghe? Never been sure who was going to be making up the extra 6.5 million, was Pavlik going to fight for free and Arum take three million less?

 

Oh, I gotcha. Okay. :hey You have fun.

 

That was the number from the time. Plenty of threads. Never verified thanks to ole White Nose. That was THE fight at the time. It would have been almost as big as Pac/Floyd. HBO was still on Pav's nuts then. You want to tell me Joe made $10 mill fighting a guy that he had discredited in his auto biography as washed up and said he would never fight him because of that? REALLY? The ONLY justification that Ole White Powder's fans could make was that it was a bigger money fight. Now that Ward dismantled Kessler you guys are in full 'history rewrite' mode.