Courtesy: Top Rank Weights from the MGM Gran in Las Vegas, Nevada_ * Manny Pacquiao (WBO welterweight champion): 145 lbs * Shane Mosley: 147 lbs * Wilfredo Vazquez Jr (WBO jr. featherweight champion): 122 lbs * Jorge Arce: 122 lbs * Kelly Pavlik: 170 lbs * Alfonso Lopez: 169 lbs * Mike Alvarado: 139 lbs * Ray Narh: 140 … [Read more...]
Kelly Pavlik used to be somebody
by Kelsey McCarson Not long ago, Pavlik was standing on top of the boxing world. He was the world’s best middleweight and lineal champion. He had legions of fans and admirers. Media attention was easy to come by. He was on his way from being a boxing star to being a superstar. In short, he was becoming America’s version of Manny Pacquiao. But it all came crumbling … [Read more...]
Kelly Pavlik Returns, May 7th on Pacquiao-Mosley Undercard
Former middleweight champ, Kelly Pavlik (36-2, 32 KOs), will make his return to active duty, May 7th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada on the Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley undercard against undefeated Texas club fighter, Alfonso Lopez (21-0, 16 KOs). Pavlik, 28, who has suffered through two separate stints in rehab for alcohol dependency, lost his WBC and WBO middleweight … [Read more...]
Sorry, Sergio…There’s Nowhere to Go
by Paul Magno There hasn't been such a unisex reaction to a KO since Oscar De la Hoya brutally knocked out Rafael Ruelas back in 1995. When WBC middleweight champ, Sergio "Maravilla" Martinez, knocked Paul Williams' eyeballs into the back of his skull Saturday, the 20th, the feeling among many was that a superstar had been born. The girls swooned and the guys pumped their … [Read more...]
Pavlik in Rehab; Career in Jeopardy
by Paul Magno The whispers and rumors circulating for the last 18 months or so, and vehemently denied by nearly everyone on Team Pavlik, have turned out to be true. Kelly Pavlik, former lineal middleweight champion of the world and one of boxing's hottest properties up until fairly recently, is in rehab and getting White Sands treatment for alcohol abuse and has been undergoing … [Read more...]