According to Dan Rafael of espn.com the long negotiated fight between world Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik and Paul Williams will happen on October 3rd in Atlantic City
”Goossen and I have agreed to all terms and we are going to contract for the fight,”Todd duBoef, president of Pavlik’s promotional company Top Rank told ESPN.com. “We look forward to a formal announcement.”
Said Dan Goossen, who promotes Williams, “I’m just happy that we’ve finally come to terms and gotten this resolved. Now we can move forward.”
Pavlik (35-1, 31 KOs) will be making the third defense of his unified titles, which he won via dramatic seventh-round knockout against Jermain Taylor in September 2007. He also outpointed Taylor in a rematch and lost a decision to Bernard Hopkins in nontitle bouts since becoming champion.
Williams (37-1, 27 KOs), 28, a former two-time welterweight titlist who holds an interim junior middleweight belt, presents a much bigger challenge.
Paul Williams, as we have said over and over, will fight anyone at virtually any weight,” Goossen said. “This is an other example of him willing to take on the best. He wants to take over the 160-pound division.”
DuBoef was happy to finally get the deal done.
“I think it’s an interesting matchup,” he said. “It’s a fight that Kelly wants and he’s highly motivated for this fight. People have said there is no real opposition in the 160-pound division, but this fight can bring a lot of interest to a division with a rich history.”
“Paul Williams is a terrific fighter and so is my guy,” Pavlik co-manager Cameron Dunkin told ESPN.com. “It’s a terrific match and it’s good for boxing. It’s a fight people are going to want to watch. Williams comes to fight and Kelly definitely comes to fight. It’s going to be a really fun fight to watch with lots of lots of punches and lots of action.”
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