Dan Rafael of espn.com is reporting that former world Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik will fight Scott Sigmon on June 8th in Las Vegas on a card that will be televised on ESPN 2.
“He’s on a great winning streak. He’s a credible opponent and he will come to fight,” Said Top Rank’s Carl Moretti. “He knows it’s an opportunity so I expect nothing less than his best effort against Kelly. This is a fight they both wanted.”
“I think that Kelly is coming right back for this fight further reflects his commitment to the sport and to keeping his life in order,” Moretti said. “I think that is what you want to see. He looked good against Jaco, so let’s do it again. Kelly doesn’t need to take six months off after knocking out Aaron Jaco.”
“I think the fact that Pavlik is going to fight on the weekend of the Pacquiao fight, with a lot of media in town and a lot of boxing fans in town, he’ll get a lot of attention and hopefully it sets up bigger things for him in the future,” Moretti said.
“I think we start discussing that (future) June 8 after the fight and go from there. We’ll see what’s available and we will sit down with Kelly and (manager) Cameron (Dunkin) and determine what the next move is. But Kelly is still a big name in the industry.”
Chavez, who defends one of the titles that Pavlik used to have on June 16 against Andy Lee at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, is a serious possibility in the fall, Moretti said. It is also a fight — which could be at middleweight, super middleweight or at a catch weight in between 160 and 168 pounds — that Chavez manager Billy Keane told ESPN.com is of interest to them.
“Absolutely, that’s a fight we’ll look at,” Moretti said. “It’s definitely a big fight. The more Kelly fights and re-establishes himself, and the better Chavez gets, the more a fight like that can come together. That’s a pretty big pay-per-view fight.”
