Arum: If Pavlik looks good in his tune-up fights, I’ll match him against Chavez Jr. next year on PPV

Image: Arum: If Pavlik looks good in his tune-up fights, I'll match him against Chavez Jr. next year on PPVBy 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.

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A motivated and in shape Pavlik would destroy Julio Cesar Chavez Jr

Image: A motivated and in shape Pavlik would destroy Julio Cesar Chavez JrBy 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.

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Pavlik: I know I can beat Chavez Jr.

Image: 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.

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Kelly Pavlik will have problems at super middleweight; Rodriguez-George on March 17th

Image: Kelly Pavlik will have problems at super middleweight; Rodriguez-George on March 17thBy 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.

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