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Pavlik goes down in the 2nd - KOs Taylor in the 7th

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Last night I saw one of the greatest fights ever!

I thought that in the 2nd round local fighter Kelly Pavlik was dead. Jermaine Taylor hit him with clean right to the head plus more, dropping Pavlik to the mat.

Pavlik nearly wasn’t around after the second round, when Taylor caught him with an overhand right and then sent him to his hands and knees with a fusillade of rights and lefts.
But Pavlik survived the round “as if nothing had happened,” marveled Taylor’s trainer, Emanuel Steward.
“When I saw that, I said, ‘Wow, we’re in trouble,” Steward said.
http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/7280848

After looking like he was down and out for the count, Pavlik keep backing Taylor into the corner, but never took advantage of it… that is until the 7th round.

Pavlik regained momentum in the third, backing Taylor into a corner and landing several lefts and rights to the head. But Taylor counterpunched effectively, leaving Pavlik bleeding from the nose and mouth by the end of the fifth round.
Taylor repeatedly worked out of the corners, often throwing some of his best combinations while working out of jams. But he used that tactic once too often, and in the seventh round it worked against him.
http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/7280848

“Now, I’m up there with all the great Ohio champions,”
“We’re a small city. We’re a town of only 92,000 people. But those types of world champions out there — it’s an honor to be out there with these guys.”
- Kelly Pavlik on his KO victory over Jermaine Taylor

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