By Jason Kim: Top Rank President Bob Arum says he wants to match former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik up with WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. next year if Pavlik wins his next two tune-up fights that Arum has planned out for him. Pavlik will be fighting on April 14th, and after that he’ll take one more tune-up fight in 2012, and then Arum wants to look to put him in with Chavez Jr. in a Top Rank in house fight.
Kelly Pavlik
Pavlik to fight on April 14th in Las Vegas at 166lbs catchweight
Pavlik: I’d beat Bute and Froch
Pavlik needs to twist Arum’s arm to get a Chavez Jr. fight
A motivated and in shape Pavlik would destroy Julio Cesar Chavez Jr
By Byron Wallin: Kelly Pavlik (37-2, 32 KO’s) has experiences a steep and tragic fall from grace in the boxing world over the past few years. People now are all too quick to write him off as a drunk and a bum. However, it was not so long ago that he dethroned Jermaine Taylor (who was undefeated at the time with two victories over the great Bernard Hopkins) to become the unified middleweight champion of the World.
Pavlik: I know I can beat Chavez Jr.
By Dan Ambrose: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (37-2, 32 KO’s) got the opportunity to see the recent fight of fellow Top Rank fighter WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (45-0-1, 31 KO’s) in his bout against previous Pavlik victim Marco Antonio Rubio and Pavlik came away completely unimpressed with what he saw of the young 25-year-old Chavez Jr.
Would Pavlik be allowed to fight Chavez Jr. if he moved back down to 160?
By Allen Fox: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (37-2, 32 KO’s) has an advantage that WBC Diamond middleweight champion Sergio Martinez doesn’t have in trying to land a fight against WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (45-0-1, 31 KO’s) in that Pavlik fights for Top Rank Promotions, the same promoter as Chavez Jr.
Pavlik thinks he can KO Froch; Frampton could fight on Martinez-Macklin undercard on 3/17
Pavlik and Mendy possible opponents for Froch’s May 5th date in Nottingham
Kelly Pavlik will have problems at super middleweight; Rodriguez-George on March 17th
By Dan Ambrose: Former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (37-2, 32 KO’s) has been busy training with his new trainer Robert Garcia in Oxnard, California. Pavlik, 29, is reportedly in his second week of workouts with Garcia and is looking to get in shape for a tune-up fight in April or May in the super middleweight division.
Pavlik can no longer make the 160 pound middleweight weight limit and is forced now to fight in the much more stacked 168 pound division with excellent fighters like Carl Froch, Lucian Bute, Andre Ward, Anthony Dirrell, Glen Johnson, Andre Dirrell, Robert Stieglitz, Mikkel Kessler, and Edwin Rodriguez.