I doubt Williams would take that fight. Hopefully he wins so we can see what happens. This is a good move before fighting Abraham.
He will have to fight his mandatory Rubio first though, not that I want to see that fight but I guess he has to or lose the WBC title. Wish he fights Abraham next instead of Williams/Wright winner.
AA won't wait for that chin forever. I see 2 fights for him at MW, then he'll move up to 168 with or without the Pavlik fight in his bag. He has major problems making 160, I expect him to fail to do in his last MW fight. HBO should push for Pavlik-Abraham first. Then Kelly can fight for the vacant titles vs. Williams.
AA is the real deal he's a slight fav over KP at this moment. but that fight needs to happen at 160 asap after the rubio fight
I see HBO wanting Wright/Williams vs Pavlik in June/July. Then hopefully whoever comes out of that can fight Abraham in Oct/Nov. Not sure how much Abraham's team can do to fight for that match first.
First Rubio, then Winky (who I assume would beat Williams), and then Abraham to close out the year. If Pavlik could stop all three of them (a big if, but not out of the realm of possibility), then he would be bigger than he was before the Hopkins fight.