Sturm (VS...): What do you think, gentlemen?

Doc (aka Meke) · Sep 5, 2010

IntentionalButt said: ↑

boo, the only time period where Pavlik wears down and stops Sturm IMO is 2006-2007. This would have been not long after Sturm's knockout loss to Castillejo, where he got stupidly brave and altered his style trying to be more crowd-pleasing; Pavlik was still undefeated and had the confidence of a noise-making KO artist on the rise. If it's 2007 and he'd benefited from the experience of going the first seven of his ultimate nineteen rounds with a world-clas boxer like Taylor, all the better.

Sturm has gone back to his bread and butter and actually improved technically in the last few years, while Pavlik has been looking more and more beatable (and in fact been beaten twice...by two styles as different from each other as they are from Sturm's, but two styles that in their own way eat aggressive stalkers alive, as does Sturm's).

Anytime from 2008 through the present and future, Sturm outpoints Pavlik unless there is a careless moment and he gets caught with something big (as Pavlik is always dangerous).

Pavlik can hold his own with the skill of some world-class boxers, yes - but none of the ones he's faced (not Taylor, not Hopkins, not even Martinez) have a jab that is so superior to his. Pavlik has a good jab. Sturm has a great one, and would have no problems landing it on Pavlik (who has the exact same height and reach dimensions as Lorenzo, btw) enough to score adequate points from behind his leather ramparts.
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Funny, although Lorenzo is shorter for more than two inches, he still has the same wingspan as Pavlik!? :huh

Didn't help him much though...

I watched Taylor -Surm from the amateurs (with funny Atlas commentary). You could see that Taylor was clearly faster and more physically mature fighter, but Sturm was timing him pretty often. Damn, it would have been such a nice match up... pitty it never happened.

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