Martinez-Pavlik: FINAL predictions!

Bute is pretty legit. Good fighter. He's like a poor man's Calzaghe, that puts more meat on his punches. There's even a slight physical resemblance.

 

Buteiful.

 

Calzaghe never had that type of power.

 

Calzaghe never had that type of punch, you know one with a closed fist. opcorn:

 

that wasn't quite as bad as peden-campbell 1, but nevertheless, a dumb move a fighter should never do unless they have a hagler'esque chin.

 

Actually when he makes an effort, he has some power in his left hand and right hook. You don't knock Chris Eubank down with 1 punch if you don't have power. His style changed, and became more about volume than power.

Obviously Bute makes more of an effort to punch hard though.

 

Who cares. The bum woulda got caught by that uppercut anyway. Bute was smart though. Shot it twice to the body, then the fool Miranda was expecting it, so Lucian switched it to the head.

Good riddance Miranda.

 

bute vs. hopkins would be one-sided. plus, i think it's safe to say that no one wants to see hopkins fight again.

if bute doesnt want to wait around for the other tourney to finish, he should move up to 175 and fight pascal or dawson.

 

How do you think Bute would do against the super 6 guys?

 

i'd pick him over kessler, froch, dirrell, green and abraham. not too sure about ward but only because i'm not too sure how good ward really is.

 

Prior to the Super 6 I'd have favored him over all of them except Kessler. Now I favor him vs all of them.

 

And we know how good Bute is? Ward beat Miranda and Kessler. Bute beat Miranda, Andrade and Bika. Not exactly much more depth to Bute´s resume.

 

Pavlik is 178 tonight. Yeah, middleweight my ass!

 

I was going to say exactly the same thing, all but Ward, and only because I'm not sure just how good Ward is.

Ward looked GOOD Vs Kessler, no doubt at all, but it's just one fight and honestly - despite me calling Kessler overrated even before the Joe fight - he looked pretty fucking shit.

I don't know whether he took Ward lightly, or the loss has affected his confidence, but he looked crap.

 

Pavlik vs. Bute ! Watch this fight and think, Martinez = Bute ....

 

It was the weight that made him lose to Hopkins! The weight I tell ya! :crafty:

 

Nice performance by Bute but I don't think he'd do well against the Super 6 guys.

 

How do you think a Ward fight would go?

Like I said in the above post, Ward looked proper good against Kessler, but that is just one fight.

 

Also, at Hopkins for shamelessly ducking Dawson. No money or legacy in a Dawson fight but he calls out the less acclaimed Bute. ::

 

I take Pavlik by TKO9. Martinez seems like the kind of guy that will do well but fall short.

 

I can't believe they tried to pass Pavlik off as undefeated.

"Undefeated in the middleweight division, 36 victories etc etc" and didn't even mention the loss at any point ::

 

Hmm, there looks to be more of a size difference than the weigh in, somehow.

 

Martinez is moving well and giving Pavlik angles, but Pavlik is handling it well.

 

Pavlik looks fat...

 

I would have bet with Vegas odds maybe but no one was offering. I didn't bet ANY money on that fight. I did pick Clottey though.

 

Martinez looks like he´ll follow Bernard´s gameplan.

 

martinez is a crafty veteran. pavlik might be in for a long night.

 

Pav is cut from a PUNCH! Ref shoulda called that.

 

pavlik looks like horse shit

 

That is one fucking fast middleweight. Martinez's hands are well quick.