Sunday, October 12, 2008

Bernard Hopkins vs Kelly Pavlik for the Middleweight Championship of the World


e fight of the year takes place live from Atlantic City's Historic Boardwalk Hall! The current reigning WBC and WBO and The Ring Middleweight Champion, Kelly "The Ghost" Pavlik will take on the legendary Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins.

Pavlik's career record is 34-0, with thirty of those victories coming by way of knockout. Hopkins unified the belts and held the titles for an astonishing ten years before being defeated by Jermain Taylor who went on to lose the belts to Kelly Pavlik.

The fight on October 18 marks the first meeting between these two middleweights and may be Hopkins' last major fight if he fails in his bid for redemption against the Champion.

The blood will indeed fly at Boardwalk Hall on October 18th as two of the greatest fighters in the world square off. DO NOT MISS THIS FIGHT, it may go down as one of the greatest in Atlantic City's storied history of boxing.