Ohio Boxing

DaytonBuck · #1 (**permalink**) 03-28-2008, 08:23 AM

Do we have any wacky rules or ridiculous restrictions that wouldn't land us a Pavilik fight or are we not a high profile boxing state?

lightsout · #2 (**permalink**) 03-29-2008, 02:25 PM

bob arum has said that pavlik's next fight (after lockett) could be in ohio. winky wright was willing to come to ohio to fight pavlik in june but arum didn't want to make that fight.

JohnnyCockfight · #3 (**permalink**) 03-29-2008, 02:28 PM

A fight in Ohio Stadium would be legendary.

lightsout · #4 (**permalink**) 03-30-2008, 02:55 AM

this could be the fight:

Abraham: "My Goal is To Fight Kelly Pavlik"
By Mark Vester

Moments after knocking out Elvin Ayala in Kiel, Germany, IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (26-0, 21KOs) called for a unification showdown with WBC/WBO champ Kelly Pavlik (33-0, 29KOs), and he's willing to the leave his backyard to make the fight in the United States.

?I always believe in my knockout,? Abraham said. ?But first you have to control the fight, then the knockout comes from itself. I want to fight in the United States. My goal is to fight Kelly Pavlik.?

Abraham has been mentioned as the possible year-end opponent for Pavlik. He's tentatively scheduled to appear on the undercard to Pavlik's title defense against Gary Lockett on June 7.

boxingscene.com

abraham, like pavlik, is a big puncher. he beat miranda before pavlik did.

CCI · #5 (**permalink**) 03-30-2008, 03:05 AM

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Originally Posted by DaytonBuck

a high profile boxing state?

but we had Buster Douglas

lightsout · #6 (**permalink**) 04-06-2008, 08:31 PM

pavlik/mayorga lol. that would be a wild fight.

Arum looking ahead for Pavlik

Although middleweight champ Kelly Pavlik has a June 7 (HBO) date with mandatory challenger Gary Lockett, promoter Bob Arum is thinking ahead to a fall defense he would like to put on in Pavlik's native Ohio, probably Cleveland. Arum said Don King, who promotes Ricardo Mayorga, has called him about matching Pavlik with the former welterweight and junior middleweight titleholder, who weighed 164 pounds when he sent Fernando Vargas into retirement in November.

"It's just one of the possibilities," Arum said about a Pavlik-Mayorga bout.

Arum said middleweight titlist Arthur Abraham is also in the picture, but not until the fight after the fall defense.

"I think Kelly could fight Abraham at beginning of [2009]," Arum said. "Kelly would like to make that a statement fight as he leaves the middleweight division."

He had hoped Pavlik could fight in September and again in December, but the potential Abraham bout, he said, would be put off until early 2009 because of a lack of TV dates. Arum said HBO is interested in Pavlik-Abraham for Jan. 31.