I know it and reading that note about the 154 title made me lol. The entire article should be taken with a grain of salt.
32lbs is easy to put on, considering boxers drain quickly. Hatton probably put on the same amount of weight within 3 weeks too, and he's a naturally smaller guy. But nice attempt to discredit Martinez again.
I was thinking the same thing. If they got something that obvious wrong, maybe the 192 was a typo, or mistake. Maybe it should have been 182.
I thought Pavlik said the extra poundage when he fought Hopkins was the reason for his **** performance? Now he's walking around at 192? Big deal. If you can make the weight fight there. If he has issues making it then move up and shut up. Its not like he is the first 200lb dude ever to make 160.
He'll get murdered not because the guys at 68 are too big but purely because theres a bunch of guys at 68 that can flat out box. He'll always look good against guys like Lacy and Taylor but put him in there with Bute and he gets stood on his head.
Link please! Post a link to any article or interview where anyone claimed Pavlik lost to Hopkins because of weight.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5giyF4QJCFzqp_imJkBpfqEdYlTzg Pavlik, who fell to 34-1, appeared to have trouble in his first foray in the light-heavyweight class - 10 pounds above his usual 160-pound middleweight station. "I just could not get off tonight," Pavlik said. "I don't know why. It just wasn't me out there tonight. I couldn't do anything I'm used to doing. We're going back to the drawing board. "It just wasn't me tonight. I'll be more comfortable going back to 160." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/7678475.stm Pavlik's World Boxing Council and World Boxing Organisation middleweight titles were not at stake because the fight was contested at a catchweight of 170 pounds. Pavlik said he was eager to move back down to 160 pounds to defend his crowns following the poorest performance of his eight-year career. "I just couldn't get off tonight," Pavlik said. "I don't know why. It wasn't his slickness, but I just couldn't throw more than a single jab. I couldn't throw a double jab and couldn't do anything that I usually do."
Nice try, but at no point did anyone from Team Pavlik claim Pavlik lost because Hopkins was to big. Defending his title at 160 was the obvious way forward. That is a far cry from claiming he lost becuase Hopkins was to big, or the weight was to much.