Pavlik-Espino: Kelly to win but don’t expect a good performance
December 17th, 2009
By Peter Wells: This weekend the main fight is a pointless PPV fight between WBC and WBO Middleweight champion and unknown contender Miguel Espino 20-2-1. Unfortunately the fight we were all looking forward to between Paul Williams and Kelly Pavlik was called off due to a serious infection on Kelly’s hand, which magically vanished once Williams had arranged to fight Sergio Martinez instead.
Then he canceled a fight in the summer with Sergio Mora which he would have clearly won, before calling off his fight with Williams and deciding to fight an opponent who’s not even going to test him 2 weeks later. Well I would honestly like an upset here but I’m gonna stick to the facts and the facts say, Espino has no chance. Espino hasn’t been stopped but hasn’t fought anyone decent at all. He may cause Pavlik a few problems early on but Pavlik should rub off the dust to come through to stop Miguel in round 10. Miguel may be stopped earlier it all depends on how long it takes Pavlik to get started. Unfortunately if you do pay for this fight, you won’t get your moneys worth, as there will be little action until Pavlik gets the stoppage, kind of like the Rubio fight. Pavlik has insisted he is not ducking anyone, so he can back that up by fighting either Martinez or Williams next year, and he should get a decent test their, and we will see if he deserves to carry the Middleweight division any longer.
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What were you saying about there not being any action in this fight?
I’m repeating myself but this is the funniest thing I’ve read in awhile. Check out Top Rank’s Website. Re: Pavlik/Espino “Order the most anticipated fight of the year on Top Rank PPV now” Does the person who wrote this actually believe this?
I’m giving Pavlik the benefit of the doubt. The only reason he is fighting is that they threatened to strip his titles; with good reason. As I see it this allows Kelly to keep his title for a short time while he gets back into boxing shape. His next fight will determine to a lot of people if this past year was a fluke or a sign of things to come. If his next fight is against the likes of Rubio, Lockett, Mora, Espino then I think he’ll be written off. Does anyone plan on ordering the PPV?
The Pavlik camp wanted to postpone the Williams fight for two weeks, and the Williams camp said no and fought Martinez instead. So Pavlik fought this guy so he wouldn’t get stripped. Both sides were right. The Williams camp was right to move on with another after two postponements, and Pavlik was right to take this tune-up. Hopefully they’ll fight next year.
It is what it is. Paul Williams got beat by Martinez but I’m glad they GAVE him the win. Now we get see Pavlik annihilate this fool once an for all. Probably in March sometime. I’m looking forward to it.
Kelly is only taking the fight because the WBC and WBO were threatening to take his titles. I don’t like the fight either, but he needs to get some ring time in.
Ture T_J it was very suspicious he should have fought early next year not the same month just doesn’t add up
Great write up. I also find it strange this “career threatening” infection magically cleared up a couple of weeks after cancelling what would’ve been a hum dinger of a fight.
Is his father his promotor? Something doesn’t seem right to me.