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scrap iron wrote:

teddy007 wrote:That was was the most half hearted effort by any fighter in living memory who was fighting for the second most prestigous title in boxing(world middleweight champion). Gary Lockett should be ashamed of himeself, he never tried and the look on his face when he got in the ring was a joke (trying to look hard). No one should ever watch this guy again, he never even tried. I hope he doesn't disgrace the sport again by putting on a pair of gloves.

I don't know if Lockett was "trying to look hard", but I do think he looked incredibly nervous whilst Pavlik seemed very relax during the announcements. I thought Pavlik would win in about five with Lockett maybe having one or two moments before going down. I've seen worse one sided world title fights, Naseem Hamed v Said Lawal for example. Does no-one think Gary made a bit of an effort to throw punches back at the start of the third round before he went down for the final time?

scrap iron wrote:I think people are mistaken in thinking Lockett was so bad, for me it was a case of Pavlik being so good. He's very underrated as a technical boxer and his jab controlled the fight, the range, set up that booming right hand of his and he even used it as a defensive deterrent when Lockett tried to come forward. I also think his body shots played a bigger part then what he was given credit for, the first Lockett knockdown was more to do with that big right hand to the body then the head shots Gary was taking.
Pavlik also looked massive compared to Gary. Kelly previous opponents Jermaine Taylor and Edison Miranda were middleweights who were really super-middleweights where Lockett was a former light-middleweight. So Pavlik's size was even more of an advantage.
So this does make me wonder how effective Pavlik would be if he goes up in the divisions and challenges bigger and heavier type of opponents. When he fought Taylor at 166lbs his power didn't look effective as it did at 160lbs. But if he stays at 160lbs I would imagine he has the beating of any middleweight that is put in front of him.
Chris_23 if you reading this then big respect for getting behind your man. At least Gary went out on his shield.