As a teaser for this Saturday’s showdown between middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik and former middleweight and light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins, here is the spectacular comeback against Jermaine Taylor that launched Kelly Pavlik into stardom last year, thus making this fight possible. Pavlik looked all but done in the second round under a furious barrage from Taylor, and indeed, I think many referees would have stopped the fight then. But he fought his way back into the match, and finished Taylor with a brutal assault in the seventh round. This clip, a little under five minutes, shows both Pavlik’s second-round escape and his spectacular seventh-round finish.
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