Kelly Pavlik Logs In Worst Perfomance of His Career

How many fighters can we say that about?

 

:deal

 

:nono

 

115-112
115-111
116-111
That is with the knockdown.

Now, say it with me...
"My scoring is not official. My revisionist bull**** is not reality."

 

I was prepared to give you a pass when you said you deleted the first post because you changed your thoughts and realised it was stupid, and then you came out with a turn of excuses again. You may aswell have left the first post in place because all you've replaced it with is a similar amount of drabble.

 

Looks like one of the judges did score the 9th as 10-8.

 

That was my poll! Bare in mind though it wasn't in regards to performance in the fight, the poll was about which affected Pavlik's image/career worse. On the one hand there's losing to a 43 year old past-prime but still good legend 10lbs above the weight class that he was expected to beat and on the other hand was a 35 year old fighter who was from a lower weight class. Clearly, they both affected his image/career negatively, but which was worse. Most of the people who responded for Martinez was due to the fact that he lost pretty much 8-4 to a 154lber. Once again...it wasn't a poll of performance.

 

OMG... What's wrong with being a cheerleader for your favorite fighter? Everyone on this site does? This fight had nothing to do with skill. The ONLY advantage that Martinez had physically was footwork and speed. Now there is no question in my mind that Pavlik didn't want to be there from the first bell. I don't know the guy, I don't know if he has a drinking issue, or whatever. I DO know to perform at the highest levels you have to be %100 percent physically AND mentally. Obviously the Pavlik who showed up for some of his other fights DID NOT show up in this one. Martinez played his game EXACTLY like he was supposed to. I don't think the best Martinez beats the best Pavlik. Sorry, I just don't. People keep talking about skills. Pavlik has many skills and to degrade those by calling him one-dimensional or whatever is really cutting the kids accomplishments. I know it's real easy for us to do that via a computer, but give the kid some respect. Martinez clearly got the better of him and showed very good skill and mental toughness. Obviously Kelly needs some work, especially with counter-punching. He does have good defense WHEN he chooses to use it. Unfortunately, something mentally is going on. He doesn't appear to want to fight as he once did. This scenario has happened to many fighters. They get a few buck, start to 'Enjoy' life and they don't have the hunger they once had. Maybe this is the case with him? I don't know. I do hope that the kid can pick himself up and correct the things he needs to. When you want to succeed in ANYTHING you have to live it. Simple as that. DO YOU WANT THIS? I don't know Kelly, DO YOU REALLY WANT TO IMPROVE ON WEAKNESSES? Are you willing to forget about partying if that is your problem between fights so you can leave some sort of legacy? If not, please just stay out of boxing. I for one don't want to see anyone get seriously get hurt because they are incapable of focusing on what he needs to do. IMO.

 

No.:nono

That was not a close fight. Martinez's domination is not fairly depicted by those misleading scorecards.



But like I said, you win some you lose some. How Kelly decides to bounce back at this point will determine how he is remembered forever.

 

Worst piece of writing ever. What are you trying to say?

 

So 115-112 isn't a close fight? There's an argument for 115-111, but neither is wide. I'm not claiming it wasn't a clear win, and I know you all love to whine about how Martinez schooled him, shut him out, dominated him etc. but the bottom line is that it was, well, close. Narrow.

 

Nothing wrong with being a cheerleader. What puts some posters off is that some fans want to credit Pavlik's canvas for the win and outright deny credit to Martinez' paintbrush for the result of the fight. Basically saying that the reason the fight resulted as it did was because: Pavlik had to drain too much, this wasn't the same Pavlik as a few years ago, this Pavlik has something mentally or emotionally wrong with him, he partied too much in between fights(unfounded), he's been ruined, he didn't want to be there, he's shot, this Pavlik would have lost to current Jeff Lacy and been KO'd by Hopkins in 5, he lost because of cuts he would have won otherwise(which it's within the rules to compete through bad cuts)....saying all these kind of things without once saying Martinez fought really well and it was a bad clash of styles for Kelly. These things happen.