Pavlik-Benn at 168

If you hit hard on Benn's chin then you've a chance of getting him out of there.

To be fair to Benn he wasn't stopped too often given the guys he was in with but he was vunerable.

 

sorry mate, you're thinking of 160 benn. 168 went 12 in an intense gruelling battle with eubank and KO'd G-man in the 10th of one of the most brutal wars of the past 30 years. 168 benn was defensively very underrated and had calmed down and matured as a fighter, enabling him to go down the stretch with more confidence.

 

It works both ways Pavlik chin is alot better than Benns.

 

He doesn't need to be.

 

benn's chin isn't the greatest but the times he lost on stoppages can be misleading.

watson - he fought like an idiot and gassed out.
collins I - ****ed up his ankle.
collins II - quit on his stool at the end of his career, was ****ed post g-man.
eubank - stopped in a war.

benn's chin wasn't iron but his fighters heart and courage made up for it.

pavlik's chin is nothing special imo and that is not a good thing going into a fight with the dark destroyer.

 

How so?

Pavlik's chin is suspect, not by any stretch of the imagination is his chin good. Pretty much the same with Benn.

 

Benn would knock his block off.

 

Undoubtedly Benn would stop Pavlik. Im not selling Kelly short here, its just Nigel would give him a healthy beating at this stage of his career.

 

Benn wouldnt let Kelly of the hook like Taylor did.

 

You've got to be kidding

Look how many punches Pavlik took from Taylor. He wouldn't be getting up against Benn

 

Nigel Benn was a league above Pavlik in Power, Head movement, Footwork, Conditioning( Towards the end), had great courage and a decent chin. One negitive though. He had a British passport.

 

A better fantasy matchup between the two would be at 160...that's a much tougher fight to call in my eyes because we've seen how effective Pavlik is at 160 and we've seen that Benn was more inconsistent there.

 

I thought he'd only fought collins once. Benn was more dangerous when he was getting leathered.

 

I would have said 9 but your honesty is commendable.

 

wishful thinking guys but i could see pavlik totally destroying benn too and im no pavlik fan but the kid has firepower in both hands