Kelly Pavlik Boxing News

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (February 20, 2010) – World Middleweight Champion KELLY “The Ghost” PAVLIK returns to Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall on Saturday, April 17 to defend his titles against World Boxing Council (WBC) super welterweight champion SERGIO “Maravilla” MARTINEZ. Promoted by Top Rank, in association with DiBella Entertainment and Caesars Atlantic City, Pavlik vs. [...]

By Chris Williams: WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-1, 32 KO’s) faces easily his best opponent since winning his middleweight titles three years ago when he steps in the ring against junior middleweight Sergio Martinez (44-2-2, 24 KO’s) on April 17th at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This fight has a lot [...]

By Jason Kim: World Boxing Council/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-1, 32 KO’s) and light middleweight Sergio Martinez (44-2-2, 24 KO’s) have come to terms for a fight on April 17th at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. However, the contracts still have yet to be signed, but there isn’t anything expected to [...]

By Chris Williams: WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-1, 32 KO’s) will be facing light middleweight Sergio Martinez in middleweight action on April 17th at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The fight will be shown by HBO as a doubleheader with a fight against International Boxing Federation super middleweight champion Lucian Bute [...]

By William Mackay: Dan Rafael is reporting that WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-1, 32 KO’s) could be facing light middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (44-2-2, 24 KO’s) on April 17th. If this fight happens, it would easily be the best opponent that Pavlik has faced since he was schooled by 44-year-old Bernard Hopkins in a [...]

By Dave Lahr: According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-1, 32 KO’s) could be facing light middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (44-2-2, 24 KO’s) in a fight that would be taking place on April 17th. HBO could possibly have International Boxing Federation super middleweight Lucian Bute fighting in a double header. [...]

By Jim Dower: According to Cleveland.com, WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik’s co-manager Cameron Dunkin is saying that Pavlik (36-1, 32 KO’s) could be facing one of four possible opponents next, against either WBC light middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, Anthony Mundine, WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm and a 4th fighter that is still yet to be [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-1, 32 KO’s) would go a long ways towards shutting up his critics if he were to step up to the plate and make a play to take Jermain Taylor’s place in the Super Six tourney. Taylor dropped out recently to take some time off from boxing [...]

By Jim Dower: WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-1, 32 KO’s) missed on a big fight with Paul Williams last year, and had to settle for a fight against number #3 WBC contender Miguel Espino in December. However, with Espino taken care of in an easy 5th round TKO, Pavlik, 27, can now focus on [...]

By Peter Wells: Kelly Pavlik’s promoter Bob Arum has said that if Kelly can’t get the fight with Paul Williams finalized then they will go for World Boxing Association middleweight champion Felix Sturm. Paul is happy to fight Pavlik but only for a 50-50 purse split, and if the fighters can’t come to an agreement, [...]

By David Lahr: I don’t if it was me or what, but WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik looked like he’s lost some hand speed in the year that he’s been out of boxing. Seriously, Pavlik looked like he was punching underwater for most of the fight. I thought there was something wrong with my television [...]

By Dave Lahr: I bet Paul Williams is licking his chops right about now after seeing WBC/WBO Kelly Pavlik’s (36-1, 32 KO’s) sloppy fight against Miguel Espino (20-3-1, 9 KO’s) on Saturday night in Youngstown, Ohio. Pavlk stopped Espino in the 5th round, but man did Pavlik take a lot of head shots in winning [...]

By Sam Gregory: While those of us living on the eastern seaboard are shoveling out from over two feet of snow that got dumped on us yesterday, World Boxing Council/World Boxing Organization middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-1, 32 KO’s) is celebrating his fourth title defense win over Miguel Angel Espino (20-3-1, 9 KO’s). So congratulations [...]

By Richard McNamara: I don’t know about everyone else but I feel 2009 has been a damn good year for boxing, with some excellent match ups, some surprise outcomes and lets face it some dubious and shocking decisions, both domestically and internationally across the globe. However I think there is one fighter who could not [...]

By Jim Dower: World Boxing Council/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-1, 32 KO’s) was far too strong for his over-matched opponent Miguel Espino tonight, taking him out in the 5th round with huge power shots tonight at the Beeghly Center in Youngstown, Ohio. Espino made a tactical mistake of trying to slug with Pavlik and [...]

By William Mackay: This is probably a no win situation that WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (35-1, 31 KO’s) finds himself in tonight in his title fight against Miguel Angel Espino (20-2-1, 9 KO’s) at the Beeghly Center, in Youngstown, Ohio. The problem is that this isn’t the opponent that boxing fans wanted to see [...]

By Chris Williams: At today’s weigh-in, World Boxing Council/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (35-1, 31 KO’s) weighed in at 160 for tomorrow night’s bout against number #3 ranked WBC contender Migue Angel Espino (20-2-1, 9 KO’s) at the Beeghly Center, in Youngstown, Ohio. Most people assume that the fight will be a gross mismatch, pointing [...]

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 [...]

By Dave Lahr: If you’re like a lot of people, you’re probably finding it hard to get all that excited about WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik’s bout against challenger Miguel Espino this Saturday in Youngstown, Ohio. Pavlik is a great figther, with excellent power and an exciting crowd pleasing style of fighting, but his opponents, [...]

By Chris Williams: For the third time in the past year, boxing fans will be seeing World Boxing Council/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (35-1, 31 KO’s) facing what appears to be a badly overmatched opponent in Miguel Angel Espino (20-2-1, 9 KO’s). Pavlik will be facing Espino on Saturday night in a pay-per-view bout at [...]

By Richie Doyle: looking towards next weekend’s fight cards I notice that kelly Pavlik is quite overpriced and his fight with Miguel Angel Espino is being seen as easy ko victory but I believe Espino could be a tougher task then that, he has great amateur pedigree and his pro record seems to have gone [...]

By Eric Thomas: WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik is ready to go for his December 19th title defense against his number # rated World Boxing Council challenger Miguel Espino (20-2-1, 9 KO’s) at the Beeghly Center, in Youngstown, Ohio. Pavlik, 27, is reportedly fully recovered by his staph infection that has plagued his left hand [...]

By Chris Williams: It’s looking like International Boxing Federation super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (25-0, 20 KO’s) could be facing WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (35-1, 31 KO’s) next if HBO is able to set this fight up, and, of course, as long as Pavlik gets by his next opponent Miguel Angel Espino on December [...]

By Sean McDaniel: World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Robert Stieglitz (36-2, 22 KO’s) will be making his first defense of his WBO crown on January 9th against the hard hitting slugger Edison Miranda (33-4, 29 KO’s) at the Bordelandhalle, Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhat, Germany. Stieglitz, 28, recently captured the WBO title with an 11th round stoppage [...]

By Peter Wells: I’m not going to turn obsessed with criticizing Kelly, I just want to make this one point, this is one of those fighters who is ruining boxing. After all the hand problems that Kelly Pavlik has had, he is suddenly ok to fight, in my view, a worthless fight against Miguel Angel [...]

By Dave Lahr: WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik’s finger is still infected with staph on his left hand, and because of that his December 5th bout with Paul Williams has once again been canceled, according to Dan Rafael. This is really bad news for both Williams and Pavlik because this is the 2nd time their [...]

By William Mackay: WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik has already been exposed last year by former middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins, who spanked Pavlik royally in beating him by a 12 round unanimous decision in October. Pavlik was never even in the fight and took a bad beating from the then 43-year-old Hopkins. Excuses came up [...]

By Dave Lahr: WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (35-1, 31 KO’s) must be still smarting from his embarrassing 12 round decision loss to then 43-year-old Bernard Hopkins last October. And if Pavlik isn’t, perhaps he should because the loss as one-sided as you’ll ever see. Pavlik was never even close to being competitive with Hopkins, [...]

By Jason Kim: At yesterday’s press conference in New York, Paul Williams (37-1, 27 KO’s) and WBO/WBC middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (35-1, 31 KO’s) got the ball rolling to start hyping their December 5th fight in Atlantic City. Williams, 28, a former welterweight champion, seems to have his eyes wide open to what he’s [...]

By Eric Thomas: WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (35-1, 31 KO’s) is looking forward to getting back in the ring and taking on Paul Williams (37-1, 27 KO’s) on December 5th, at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.