I am really getting sick of this ESB cliche'. And maybe it is the other way around? Ole Joe is a slow starter. Not something you want to do against Pavlik.
It would be hilarious because it would further show how overrated Jermain Taylor was. Plus, I'm sick of the Pavlik hype, would love to see it thrown right back into the faces of everybody wrongfully hyping him as a P4P level fighter, just as it was wonderful throwing it in the faces of those irritating Jermain Taylor apologists. And Calzaghe would TKO him in 3 or less.
First Calzaghe couldn't KO a Kitten, and second nobody asked you ****er.:smoke 3rd, have you seen him on my P4P list??
OK. I'll lay it out simpler. It has already been said plenty of times. Up until he fought Hopkins, Joe was calling out Kelly. After Bhop, it seems Ole Joe has forgotten Kelly Pavlik's name completely! Joe knows he struggled against a 43 year old man. He wants no part of Kelly now, that is why he has 'forgotten' his name.
I think Lowe is trying to restore Ole Joe from his state of amnesia. Think of it as tough love. Throw out some 'fight'n words' and maybe Ole Joe will remember calling out Pavlik.
Was more pointing out the irony, but well spotted there. Of course Pavlik is no more compelled to move up a division to try to challenge Calzaghe than Calzaghe should have felt compelled to move up a division to try to challenge Roy Jones. There are a couple of factors arguing more in favour of him doing so though: firstly the division that he is in is considerably weaker than the SMW division that Calzaghe was in, and secondly, it's quite possible that Calzaghe would be amenable to a fight whereas Jones did not want to fight Calzaghe at that time. One factor argues in favour of him not doing so which is that he is likely to be able to secure a unification fight a lot quicker than Calzaghe did. IMO he should forget mandatories against the likes of Lockett and Rubio and try to fight Abraham as soon as possible before moving to SMW. Abraham is the only thing approaching a decent scalp for him at 160.