Revenge for Jermain Taylor against Kelly Pavlik Saturday?
That should be the mindset Mr. Bad Intentions should be in this Saturday.
Because the last time Jermain ''Bad Intentions'' Taylor met Kelly Pavlik inside the squared circle, Taylor's career changed in a blink of an eye. He he... Who knew Pavlik will come back strong to shock the world after being dominated by Taylor in the first two rounds of their first meeting?
Jermain Taylor, then defending his middleweight championship title for the fifth time in Atlantic City, New Jersey last September 29, knocked Kelly Pavlik down in the second round. He knocked Pavlik down so bad that the referee ALMOST stopped the fight right then and there.
Thankfully, referee Steve Smoger didn't. Kelly Pavlik survived and all of a sudden, Taylor just couldn't follow up on his round two knockout blow. Hell, Mr. Bad Intentions couldn't even land another clean shot.
''There was a minute, 45 [seconds] left in that round when I went down and there wasn't another knockdown,'' Kelly Pavlik said. ''And then not only couldn't he stop me but he wasn't able to really knock me down again. And he was trying. I mean he was swinging for the fences.''
''At the end of the second round, I figured I had Kelly Pavlik beat,'' Jermain Taylor said. ''He was hanging on to me. Could barely stand up. Staggering around. It was over, at least, I thought it was. The problem was, I was out of gas, too.''
Jermain Taylor was still ahead in all three scorecards and if that fight ended without a knockout, Taylor would've won it via unanimous decision. Unfortunately, Kelly Pavlik had other plans. Pavlik refused to let the judges determine the outcome of the fight as he came up with a shocking seventh-round knockout to win the WBC middleweight championship of the world.
''I think about it all the time,'' Jermain Taylor admitted, referring to his loss to Kelly Pavlik. ''What comes into my head is how I could have trained harder to finish him off in the second round. All the should haves, could haves in the world is not going to change anything.''
Taylor will have the opportunity to change things on Saturday. That is if he can put an end to this great white hope.
Can Jermain Talyor win the WBC middleweight championship title and beat Kelly Pavlik? Bodog Sportsbook has the odds.
Kelly Pavlik 1.50
Jermain Taylor 2.60
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