Skytower Pavlik vs Rubio Boxing Betting
Kelly Pavlik vs Marco Antonio Rubio
February 21, 2009 Top Rank PPV
Chevrolet Centre Youngstown, OH
 Kelly Pavlik looks to prove to the boxing world how good he really is after a dismal showing against Bernard Hopkins last October as he takes on WBC mandatory challenger Marco Antonio Rubio. Rubio (43-4-1, 37 KO’s) won on the Pavlik-Hopkins undercard to force a mandatory championship defense. He will have a tough task in trying to defeat Pavlik (34-1, 30 KO’s) in his own backyard at the Chevrolet Centre in Youngstown.
The fight will be part of a dual-headline Top Rank PPV. The other main event will be the Cotto vs Jennings fight from Madison Square Garden in New York. The Cotto-Jennings fight is set to go off first at around 10:00 EST and the Pavlik-Rubio fight is going to start when the first fight ends.
Kelly Pavlik wants to unify the middleweight championships before moving up to 166. he looked very lackluster in his last fight, a non-championship fight against Bernard Hopkins, when he fought ten pounds over his normal weight. Pavlik was ill the week of the fight but chose to go ahead not to let the boxing fans down. He may have done just that by fighting a legend when not at 100 percent. Hopkins pretty much had his way with Pavlik the whole fight, and to his credit, Pavlik didn’t whine, use the illness as an excuse, or offer up a dissertation on what went wrong, he just admitted defeat with no excuses.
Rubio and Pavlik both have the power to end a fight with one punch. I think Pavlik will be fighting with a chip on his shoulder feeling as though he has something to prove. This will be a rough night for the challenger Rubio, but not a long one. I predict Kelly Pavlik to win by TKO in the fifth round in front of 7,000 family members, friends, and neighbors.
Cotto will be taking on top-rated contender MICHAEL JENNINGS for the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title.
Miguel Cotto to face Michael Jennings of the UK for the vacant WBO welterweight title. This is an especially important fight for Cotto, mainly because he’s coming off of a devastating 11th round TKO from Margarito in July, a fight which left Cotto a beaten and bloody mess. In the 11th round, Cotto was forced to stand his ground and try to fight it out with him. chopping shots from Margarito which caused Cotto to take a knee. Shortly after that, Cotto took a second knee without being hit, and the fight was promptly stopped.
Miguel "Junito" Angel Cotto
Miguel Angel Cotto (32-1-0, 26 KOs), represented Puerto Rico as a light welterweight at 2000 Sydney Olympics. Cotto's most notable fight recently was on Saturday, June 10, 2006 at Madison Square Garden in New York where he beat Paulie Malignaggi by a 12 round UD. Malignaggi was down in round two. Cotto won the WBO light welterweight belt.
Miguel Cotto lost to Mexican Antonio Margarito by 11th round TKO at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, July 26, 2008. Cotto's corner threw in the towel at 2:05 of round 11 as Cotto went down on his knee for the second in the round. Along with suffering his first professional defeat Cotto lost his WBA welterweight title to Antonio Margarito.
Jennings, 34-1 (16), previously held the British title until a controversial spilt decision loss to Lee "Young Muttley" Woodley in 2006 and has since acquired the WBU belt, winning six straight contests.
Pavlik vs Rubio fight results
In front of his boisterous hometown fans in Youngstown, Ohio, Kelly Pavlik outpunched Marco Antonio Rubio from start to finish in a ninth-round TKO to defend his middleweight belts.
The people started lining up hours before the doors even opened, thousands of blue-collar folks turning out to see this old steel town's first title fight in 25 years.
They waved banners and flags, carried posters and pictures, braving freezing temperatures to pay homage to the unquestionable king of the Rust Belt.
Kelly Pavlik expressed his thanks in the most proper way he could.
Cheered on by a raucous sellout crowd that finally made its way inside the downtown Chevrolet Centre, the middleweight champion rebounded from his first career loss on Saturday night by stopping top contender Marco Antonio Rubio after the ninth round -- for one night giving an entire city a reason to be proud of itself.
The pride of Youngstown outclassed and outpunched Rubio almost the entire fight, hurting the Mexican challenger in the eighth round and battering him throughout the ninth, after which Rubio's corner decided he couldn't continue.
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