Boxing: Kelly Pavlik to face Bernard Hopkins

Muck · Jul 18, 2008

Fight will take place at 170 pounds on Oct. 18. HBO PPV.

Apparently there were six other fights that they couldn't get first.

There were talks for a fight with Joe Calzaghe (which would have taken place at super middleweight), Marco Antonio Rubio, Randy Griffin, Sergio Mora, Paul Williams and Winky Wright. For various reasons, none panned out, leaving Arum to turn to the 43-year-old Hopkins (48-5-1, 32 KOs), who lost the light heavyweight title to Calzaghe on a split decision on April 19.
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"This fight was not our first choice, but it was the only alternative we had to make a buck," Arum said. "We didn't have any place to go except a pay-per-view card. At least it will do halfway decent numbers. We turned it down once. It came back around and we accepted it."
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"Kelly isn't thrilled with the fight, but one of the incentives he has is that if he's going to fight Calzaghe after Calzaghe fights Roy Jones, it will be 168 pounds anyway. So it gets him ready for that fight."
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phunwin · Jul 18, 2008

"This fight was not our first choice, but it was the only alternative we had to make a buck," Arum said.
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:sidelol:

I give Bob Arum lots of credit for his honesty. "Um, look, this fight's probably going to suck, but we couldn't get anyone better, so what do you want?"

Muck · Jul 18, 2008

Yeah, it probably won't be very good. Hopkins will make sure of it. I'll still end up buying it because I'm a Pavlik fan.

Could be interesting though, since Hopkins tries to hold and play defense. Pavlik is great because he doesn't get stuck trying to throw one kind of punch and/or only at the head. When he gets inside, he really mixes his combinations up. Lockett was severely outclassed. But you saw a great example of it in that fight.

dolfan32323 · Jul 18, 2008

Too bad they couldn't get the other ones- but I think it will be a good fight.

GreenMonster · Jul 19, 2008

phunwin said:

:sidelol:

I give Bob Arum lots of credit for his honesty. "Um, look, this fight's probably going to suck, but we couldn't get anyone better, so what do you want?"
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I laughed too, way not to even spin it. Think words like that ever come out of Don Kings mouth.

#1 fan · Jul 19, 2008

i read that the fight has been called off. i was kinda excited to see it. i know nobody else was, but b-hop and pavlik are two of my favorite fighters.

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