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[Source: Boxing Fight Reports
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Hopkins dominates Pavlik
Bernard Hopkins gave Kelly Pavlik a boxing lesson and a first loss that he will never forget.
The 43-year-old Hopkins used lightning quick combinations and a cagey, near-perfect defense to embarrass and confuse Pavlik in a 12-round non-title bout Saturday night at Boardwalk Hall.
Hopkins, who dominated the middleweight class for a decade, made the 26-year-old Pavlik—the WBC and WBO middleweight champion—look slow and powerless in fighting at 170 pounds, 10 pounds over his weight class.
“I think this was my best performance, better than (Antonio) Tarver, better than (Felix) Trinidad, better than Oscar (De La Hoya), better than my 21 defenses,” Hopkins said. “I am extremely happy.”
Hopkins received winning scores of 119-106 from judge Alan Rubenstein, 117-109 from Barbara Perez and 118-108 from Steve Weisfeld.
The mismatch was obvious from the opening bell, and Hopkins reveled in the beating he gave the Youngstown, Ohio boxer. By the fifth round, Pavlik was bleeding from the nose and by the seventh Hopkins was taunting him.
During one stretch in the round, Hopkins landed four or five straight punches, and then stepped back started winding up on his punches before delivering them.
“He was a great fighter but I knew my style and quickness was underrated and it was going to give him problems tonight,” Hopkins added.
Pavlik (34-1) never stopped stalking Hopkins of Philadelphia, but he never seemed to hurt him.
“I just could not get off tonight,” Pavlik said. “I don’t know why? It was not his slickness. It just wasn’t me out there tonight. I couldn’t do anything I’m used to doing. We’re going back to the drawing board. it just wasn’t me tonight. I’ll be more comfortable going back to 160.”
With tinges of gray in his beard, Hopkins even looked the fresher fighter. He came into ring wearing an executioner’s mask and black robe with an ‘X’ on both, and he terminated Pavlik’s perfect mark in improving to (49-5-1).
The crowd had come to hail Pavlik, who had battered Gary Lockett in his first title defense in June.
When he was in trouble early, they chanted “Kel-lee! Kel-lee!”
Halfway through the fight the chants become “B-Hop! B-Hop!”
Hopkins landed a barrage of blows in the 12th round and started yelling at Pavlik in a move that was no more than a gleeful taunt.
“I wanted to pick it up and step it up,” Hopkins said. “I wanted to stop him.”
When the final bell sounded, both fighters continued to throw punches, forcing referee Benji Esteves to dive between them.
Hopkins then walked over to the television cameras and glared, wondering how so many had predicted that Pavlik would knock him out for the first time in his career.
In hindsight, it’s a wonder Pavlik was still standing at the end.
Hopkins praised Pavlik after the fight.
“I was a fan of yours before the fight and I am a fan of yours now,” Hopkins told Pavlik in the corner. “You just need to get a little more slickness. You need to bend you knees more like your coach was telling you. Middleweight is your destiny.”
Layla McCarter: A Warrior's Journey
Early on Layla McCarter took the warrior’s road.
You know, that long dusty path they talk about in Japanese samurai movies where a person decides to learn the warrior’s craft instead of having it handed to them like a birthright.
That’s McCarter.
In the beginning of her journey the spunky girl from the Northern California and now Las Vegas got off to a rough start. Before she could blink an eye she had four losses and only one win.
She took her lumps early traveling from town to town, barely able to eat and in the early going without a boxing trainer.
Now, 10 years later, after grinding out a career and learning the finer points of the sweet science, McCarter meets Spain’s Lolly Munoz (8-4-1) for the vacant GBU lightweight title on Friday Aug. 15, at the Orleans Casino in Las Vegas. It will be contested at three-minute rounds.
“It’s much harder to get fights,” says McCarter (30-13-5, 7 KOs), a very innocent looking person with a quick smile and short haircut who already has the WBA title. “There’s no one in the U.S. that wants to fight, that’s why we had to go to Spain to find somebody.”
Munoz surprisingly accepted the fight. And when McCarter looked into her next opponents record she found that the Spaniard’s losses were in other countries against the hometown girl.
“She must be pretty good,” McCarter, 29, says, adding that she admires that self-confidence to go to another fighter’s hometown or country. “Nobody wants to fight her in Europe so she took the fight.”
McCarter remembers when she was 19 and full of fight, a little bit of anger and a lot of energy. She remembers taking fights against fighters she didn’t know and remembers trusting the promoters and matchmakers who offered those “easy fights.”
One of those so-called easy fights took place in 1999, when a Los Angeles promoter called McCarter to set up a fight against some girl called Laura Serrano. They assured her that it was an easy fight and the other girl only had one previous fight.
“She was 4-0 and undefeated but they didn’t tell me that,” said McCarter, adding that the fight took place at the Inglewood Forum.
To make matters worse, the promoters didn’t give her meal money after the weighing and there was McCarter with her friend and only two dollars between them. They spotted a Taco Bell and looked at the menu.
“I picked out a seven-layer burrito from Taco Bell because it looked like the most nutritious thing on the menu,” laughs McCarter. “The next day they gave me my meal money two hours before the fight. A lot of help that was.”
It was the fight against Serrano that opened boxing fan’s eyes. The Mexican fighter was supposed to run over the newcomer. Instead, it was a firefight that saw the large Mexican crowd at the Inglewood Forum cheering for McCarter in the four round bout.
Though McCarter lost by split-decision, she proved to many in attendance that she could indeed fight. The raw tools were there in full evidence and the crowd of mostly Latinos booed the decision.
“She (Serrano) cried because they booed her,” said McCarter of Serrano who later became a lightweight world champion too. “She never liked me after that.”.
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