Pavlik needs to twist Arum’s arm to get a Chavez Jr. fight
February 16th, 2012
By Dan Ambrose: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (37-2, 32 KO’s) should be speaking up and putting his promoter Bob Arum under big time pressure to try and weasel a fight against fellow Top Rank fighter WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (45-0-1, 31 KO’s).
Pavlik would be perfect for Chavez Jr. and a lot better fight than seeing Chavez Jr. beat up on Antonio Margarito on June 2nd. I don’t want to see that fight, and I’d much prefer to see Pavlik fight Chavez Jr. on that date rather than Andy Lee, who Arum has also mentioned as a possible candidate to matched against Chavez Jr. Pavlik right now is training with Robert Garcia, his new trainer, in Oxnard, California. Pavlik is moving up in weight to super middleweight, but he says he’s available to fight at middleweight if the right fight came along and presented itself to him. The fight he needs to go after is a fight against Chavez Jr. and I don’t know why Arum doesn’t want to put that fight together. Pavlik is a much better choice for Chavez Jr. than putting him in with the near shot Margarito. There’s no comparison. Pavlik is still very much a live and dangerous for anyone at 160 to 168.
It’s sad that Arum isn’t utilizing the more talented Pavlik to match him against Chavez Jr. and/or Margarito. But I guess Pavlik would finish off Margarito and likely send him into retirement with a brutal stoppage and would likely give Chavez Jr. such a one-sided beating that HBO would stop airing his fights.
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A good Pavlik would dominate and probably KO Jr., but we don’t know which Pavlik would show up at this point. Or IF he would show up. If Pavlik re-proves he’s reliable and competent, then yeah put him in with Jr. Do well in a couple tune-ups, stop drinking, then we’ll see what happens.
still fan of PAVLIK, a true champ! please dont compare him to chavez jr without his last name he would be nothing…just like margarito is without his loaded gloves….PAVLIK is a champion even without the belt and a great fighter!!!! TOP RANK made chavez jr a champ
Pavlik. Re-tire!
Pavlik has burnt some brides with his pull-out last August and his recent police incident. He’s considered unreliable and greatly diminished as a draw, plus he’s very high maintenance.
Easy… Arum is protecting his new fake paper champ, PAvlik could killing coward Chavez in 1 or 2 rouunds
Pavlik would demolished Andre ward.
Other countries support their fighters, even when its over for them like Margarito. Americans dont support their own. Arum knows this so he uses it even tho it may cost a man his eye sight! It will make more money than Pavlik.