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December 15, 2009

On Saturday 19 December, Miguel Espino will challenge Kelly Pavlik for his middleweight titles. BetUS has odds.

The fight is -1400 Pavlik to +700 Espino at BetUS. Kelly Pavlik is the WBC, WBO and The Ring middleweight champion, and he intends to defend these titles on Saturday. He has a record of 36-1-0, with 31 victories coming via KO. His 1 professional loss was a light heavyweight bout against Bernard Hopkins, so Pavlik is undefeated at middleweight.

Miguel Espino is a 29-year-old boxer who has been fighting since 2000. He has a record of 16-2-1, with 8 of those wins by KO. Espino was featured on The Contender, and his last lost came as a result of fighting in that competition. Since that time, Espino has gone undefeated in 11 fights. He has yet to face competition on the level of Pavlik, so this will be his greatest challenge.

It should be noted that while both fighters have demonstrated knockout power, neither has been stopped. Both fighters will suffer from ring rust thanks to long breaks since their last fights, but this really seems like a tune up match for Pavlik after a bad Staph infection that kept him out of a potentially huge fight with Paul Williams. It is not impossible for Espino to win this fight, but it is almost unimaginable.

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