QUOTE (ElUno20 @ Aug 20 2009, 11:00 PM) index.php?act=findpost&pid=2520281
Goosen will not wait for Pavlik to heal his bruised vagina and says that Paul will be fighting this fall.
I hope this is just a standard case of a promoter blowing smoke.
I think Pavlik is milking an injury in order to stall and give himself extra time to get in shape, and I completely understand why Williams and his camp are pissed, but I think logic needs to prevail here.
If you're Williams' handlers, you want to do everything you can to work things out and reschedule this fight for some point in '09. Pavlik looks vulnerable right now, and Williams would enter that fight as the clear favorite IMO.
No one repeats the "titles mean nothing in boxing anymore" mantra more than I do, but the lineal middleweight title is different. Being the legit middleweight champ still means something. If you've got a chance to fight for the legit middleweight title on HBO against a big-name opponent who looks vulnerable, you can't just blow that off.
Goosen will not wait for Pavlik to heal his bruised vagina and says that Paul will be fighting this fall.
I hope this is just a standard case of a promoter blowing smoke.
I think Pavlik is milking an injury in order to stall and give himself extra time to get in shape, and I completely understand why Williams and his camp are pissed, but I think logic needs to prevail here.
If you're Williams' handlers, you want to do everything you can to work things out and reschedule this fight for some point in '09. Pavlik looks vulnerable right now, and Williams would enter that fight as the clear favorite IMO.
No one repeats the "titles mean nothing in boxing anymore" mantra more than I do, but the lineal middleweight title is different. Being the legit middleweight champ still means something. If you've got a chance to fight for the legit middleweight title on HBO against a big-name opponent who looks vulnerable, you can't just blow that off.