Pavlik has ballooned up to 192 pounds

[Faulks]

May 1st, 2010

 

By Dan Ambrose: Only two weeks after losing his WBC/WBO middleweight titles to Sergio Martinez in Atlantic City, Kelly Pavlik (36-2, 32 KO’s) still hasn’t decided whether to use his rematch clause in his contract with Martinez to try and regain his lost belts or move up in weight. But what is alarming is that Pavlik has reportedly ballooned up in weight to an incredible 192. In an article at the Tribtoday.com, Pavlik’s long time trainer Jack Loew says that Pavlik has put on weight and is now weighing 192, which is 14 pounds heavier than Pavlik’s fight weight of 178 on April 17th.

 

This suggests that Pavlik has some real soul searching to do before he decides whether to fight a rematch with Martinez, as it seems that he’s having a harder time making the middleweight limit of 160. After weighing in at 159 for the weigh-in before his fight with Martinez, Pavlik put on almost 20 pounds off water through rehydration and entered the ring at a massive 178. The extra weight seemed to slow Pavlik considerably, tiring him out in the 2nd half of the fight.

 

I don’t know whether Pavlik would have been able to beat Martinez had he been lighter, but I think he wouldn’t have faded the way he did in the latter part of the fight. It’s possible that through conditioning and diet, Pavlik can get back down to 160 and not have a repeat performance like his last fight, but I have my doubts about whether or not Pavlik can still make the 160 pound limit without draining himself of massive amounts of water to make weight. Pavlik might be better off jumping up in weight to the super middleweight division and trying his hand at that weight class rather than risking another loss to Martinez. Loew thinks that Pavlik will be able to take the weight off in 9 weeks for a rematch with Martinez. Loew says “We will have to train smarter, and I will have to ask Kelly if he is willing to train two times a day.”

 

If you look at how Pavlik performed in his two fights against Jermain Taylor and compare that with his recent fight with Martinez, it’s like looking at two different fighters. Pavlik was skinnier and much more active in the Taylor fights than he was in the Martinez loss. In the Martinez fight, Pavlik looked slow and sluggish, throwing few punches and appearing tired.

The weight that Pavlik put on before the Martinez fight appeared to be mostly muscle, which makes you wonder whether he’s spending too much time pounding the tire with a sledgehammer during training or weight lifting.

 

At 6’2”, Pavlik can’t afford to bulk up because with his frame, it’s easy for him to fill out more and outgrow the middleweight division. This is what it looks like Pavlik is doing, but he needs think hard about whether it’s worth it to take off that muscle, and possibly weaken himself, or move up in weight to the super middleweight or light heavyweight divisions to try his luck there.

[Faulks]

Alcohol piles the pounds on me too Kelly beer// mlol/

[LondonRingRules]

Re: Pavlik has ballooned up to 192 pounds

 

May 1st, 2010

 

By Dan Ambrose:

 

..........The extra weight seemed to slow Pavlik considerably, tiring him out in the 2nd half of the fight.

 

------- Never heard of Mr. Ambrose before, so maybe he's a football guy pulling weekend boxing duty and never seen Pavlik before, but Kelly was as fast as any fight I've seen him in and probably with better overall footwork.

 

He lost the fight when he lost vision because of cuts, not because of stamina or speed problems. He became a sitting duck because he had no competent cut man in his corner. He fought a much faster, tricky southpaw, his first ever, and acquitted himself nicely overall considering the health problems and scheduling problems he's overcome.

 

He already addressed that he needs to move up, but may stay at middle for the rematch, so Mr. Ambrose seems to be trying to fill out what we already know with his fantasies.

[SeelowHeights]

All you need to know about Dan Ambrose was that he came up with one of the worst articles EVER when "reporting" rather like a Guardian "journalist" on the Rees / Kotelnik fight.

 

http://www.boxingnews24.com/2008/03/kotelnik-stops-rees-with-only-seconds-remaining/

 

Honestly, it was one of the funniest non-comedy articles ever written.

[WelshDevilRob]

Danny Greens looking for a name opponent. Pavlik sounds like he'd fit the bill.

[SeelowHeights]

Danny Greens looking for a name opponent. Pavlik sounds like he'd fit the bill.

 

More like Danny Williams going off that weight gain, if it is to be believed.

[grapevine241]

he just lost his titles, so what if he put on some weight. what did he weigh in the ring anyways? so its not 30 pounds he put on its probably like 10 or so.

[WelshDevilRob]

he just lost his titles, so what if he put on some weight. what did he weigh in the ring anyways? so its not 30 pounds he put on its probably like 10 or so.

 

Good point. Hes also a pretty tall guy.

[ironjab]

192 isnt that heavy for a 6ft plus guy, i bet hatton is heavier, i dont know why pavlik is generally being written off after a couple of defeats, hes fought good fighters and two have beaten him, so what? boxing is about fighting the best guys available, and to me pavlik and many other fighters do, although many are content to pad thier records to 39 and 0 before they fight a decent fighter, i mean lamotta was 5 and 1 with robinson, i just think that defeats on a record don't mean the fighter is finished, benn learned more from the watson fight than any of the previous 22, going on a bit arent i?

[Wheelchair]

I see Pavlik's on the Ricky Hatton diet! mlol/

[Kimmy]

Palvik´s attitude is the main concern, if he decides to move up it might be through lazyness more than anything. And his one excursion into the higher weights resulted him in getting easily beaten. It doesn´t look good him moving up.