This will be a Good Barometer...

Good post! I agree but problem is that Pavlik says he's staying at 160 for awhile.

 

I don't see Kessler staying more than 1-2 years in the 168 division because he has to lose too much weight every time ! He's naturally a big guy ! On the other hand Pavlik will move up after 2008 for the same reasons !!

 

I hope we are not forgetting Taylor....he's also in thing happy bunch.

damn the sup. middleweights are not looking bad at all. hopefully the division will become as attractive as middleweight.

 

I just never buy into the reasoning that says if fighter 'A' dominates fighter 'B', a fighter who does not dominate fighter 'B' would not be able to compete with fighter 'A' (if that makes any sense). Boxing history is full of huge exceptions to this rule (Frazier/Foreman/Ali, for one example). So, even if Kessler doesn't ko Miranda it doesn't mean he wouldn't ko Pavlik.

 

Indeed.:good

 

Pavlik dominated Miranda and knocked him out. As I stated in the other thread about this very thing it would tell us nothing about how a fight with Kessler and Pavlik or Taylor would come out. Unless Kessler loses to Miranda then we could stop talking about it.

 

Pavlik has great stamina, a decent jab and a longer reach than Miranda. How Kessler performs against Miranda isn't an indication of how Pavlik will do against Kessler.

 

Tarver/Jones/Hopkins will agree with you.

Styles makes fights and i think what you said applies in a lot of circumstances.

 

I dont know, I think that Tarver would have always been a tough fight for Jones, but the Jones that beat Hopkins would have also beat Tarver 10 of 10 times.

But I agree with you in theory.

 

Thats true but i dont agree with your example. Jones in his prime beats Tarver every time

 

Good point.