and i have to say im even more of a pavlik fight now. the guy is pure fighter. even when miranda nailed him below the belt you didn't see him even as much as glance at a referee..while most other fighters will roll around the ring like a fish out of water if a punch as much as comes close to being low...good luck with taylor pavlik....fuck him up :bears:
I might watch it again tonight too. And yeah, Pavlik is a beast, not a bitch. I hope he brutalizes Taylor, I can't stand Taylor.
yeah, what I like most about pavlik is that he is very difficult to discourage, he will walk through a lot to get his in...but jeez he is easy to hit and a bit slow, if he is a fraction off his game, taylor could make him look foolish although I doubt Taylor will look like a beast himself even if he does beat him...
People like to Say that Miranda was "Weight Drained" in the Pavlik Bout,but if U RE-Watch his Fight Against Howard Eastman, Miranda Looked Virtually THE SAME,whenever Eastman FORCED him Backwards... Shit, even Allan Green DROPPED Miranda... Pavlik BEAT Miranda Because he's BETTER, NOT Because Miranda was "Weight Drained"... REED:nono:
agREED on that part, but there is no ignoring the fact that Miranda was a dead man walking at the weigh-in. It took him two hours and four tries to make weight. It was the first time I've ever seen Miranda too tired and drained to talk shit :: (the second time of course being the fight itself)
How so? Harris was actually under the LIGHTWEIGHT limit for a junior welterweight title defense. (at least according to the same rigged scale that claimed Gatti was 140)
I've always thought Harris just LOOKED over-trained for that fight (and Steward's comments about Viv training in the hotel room hours before the fight confirmed it). For what it's worth...I don't know how to explain it; but for the Witter fight Harris just looked thinner than I've ever seen him. Wonder what's happening to his body with the strain of making 140 or the over-training or both? peace.
With the Maussa fight - and more so appearing on the Floyd-Gatti undercard - I think Viv's nerves got the best of him. His own therapy is to run, long distance. He has a bad habit as it is of jogging long distance on the beach. He ran 5 miles along the Jersey shore the day before the fight. Not sure about the Witter fight, you're not the first to comment on how thin he appeared, though to be honest I never thought anything of his appearance. Perhaps making 140 is taking its toll on his body. I know he was around 143 at the 30-day weigh-in, and actually gained 1/2 lb or so by the time the 7-day checkpoint came (though the fluctuation could've been due to weighing in moments after a 15 hour flight). Whatever the case (and bringing it back to Pavlik-Miranda:: ), Miranda looked far worse at the weigh-in than Viv did in either aforementioned fight.
