Pavlik-Abraham----Who will win?

[oldgringo]

I'm not sold on Pavlik. I like the guy- he's fairly humble, doesn't talk ****- works hard in the ring to win. Who can't appreciate that? Still, some of the flaws I see worry me. He has a tendency to get caught- and I'm not just referring to the Taylor fight. Here's my thing:

I'm fairly sure that Pavlik was done against McKart. If so, that's something to worry about. Does anyone have that fight? I don't need someone confirming or denying that he was on the canvas, I'd like to re watch the fight. I don't remember what type of punch it was, or how hurt Kelly was- I'm just fairly sure that I recall seeing the footage before Pavlik's fight with Taylor- and that he got hurt. Any help?

Kelly wasn't hurt. I remember seeing the replay of that fight on Versus...Pavlik touched the canvas from some sort of glancing blow but it was nothing solid. He went over kind of awkwardly and his glove touched the canvas or something. That was awhile ago though...if anyone can post a clip it'd jog both of our memories.

Pavlik did go down from a left hook against Zuniga though. He was a bit more buzzed from that one. Zuniga is a good, kinetic type of fighter. Abraham isn't in constant motion like that, but he does have a good left hook...maybe something to look out for.

[TRAVI$]

I got Abraham catching him all night long
Late KO/TKO

[oldgringo]

If Kelly Pavlik beats Abraham it will quell much of my doubt in him. Still, nobody with that McKart knockdown?

An excerpt taken from HBO:

1ST NABF M TITLE DEFENSE - on 7-27-06 in Uncasville, CT, he TKO'd former WBO jr. middleweight world champion Bronco McKart (48-6): Kelly had the edge in the early rounds, but McKart scored a knockdown when both of Kelly's gloves touched the canvas in the 4th - replays showed that Kelly fell forward, off-balance, after a glancing blow to his shoulder; but Kelly rallied and rocked McKart in the 5th round, then scored a knockdown with a series of punches and cut McKart over his right eye in the 6th; Kelly scored another knockdown with another series of punches later in the round - McKart got up, but the referee stopped the fight at 2:45; after the fight, Kelly said, "I think I ruined his whole game-plan. When he felt my power in the first round, I threw him off his plan. I figured, 'Eventually you're going to get tired and not me,' and that's what happened. We always train to keep the pace. In the fifth round, my trainers noticed he was keeping his elbow up. I just touched him under the elbow and snuck in another shot. I've been doing this for six years, and this was a convincing win. The way I won, it has to open doors, but all I can do is pray to the boxing gods."...

I don't remember it exactly like that, but I do remember he wasn't hurt and he didn't go down from a solid shot.