Watch Kelley Pavlik vs Miguel Espino Live Stream Fight Online and Results

WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik will defend his belts against WBC #3 rated Miguel Espino on December 19, 2009 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT LIVE on Pay-per-view at Youngstown State University’s Beeghly Center in Youngstown, Ohio.  Pavlik was forced to pull out of a bout two weeks earlier because of a staph infection in his left hand. Espino is best known as a participant on season one of “The Contender.” The Pavlik camp took the fight on short notice, rather than be stripped of the belts. This bout will be televised on Top Rank’s December 19 “Latin Fury” card.

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The pay-per-view event also features undefeated Top-10 super welterweight contender Vanes Martirosyan (25-0, 16 KOs), of Glendale, Calif., and trained by three-time Trainer of the Year Freddie Roach, who will challenge NABF super welterweight champion Willie Lee (17-5, 10 KOs), of New Orleans, in a 12-round bout.

PAVLIK-ESPINO PREVIEW

Pavlik (35-1, 31 KOs), the star from Youngstown, Ohio, joins former lightweight champions Harry Arroyo and Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini as hometown world champions. Pavlik Ghost wrote a career year in 2007 against three of the best who boasted a combined record of 74-4-3 (55 KOs) when he faced them. The consensus “Fighter of the Year” for 2007, Pavlik knocked out Jose Luis Zertuche (19-3-2, 14 KOs) and Edison Miranda (28-1, 24 KOs), in world title elimination bouts, earning him the right to become Jermain Taylor’s mandatory challenger. His year-end finale, a seventh-round stoppage of the previously undefeated Taylor, to claim the world middleweight championship, was selected as the “Fight of the Year” by the Boxing Writers Association of America and extended Pavlik’s two-year victory by knockout streak to nine bouts. Pavlik defeated Taylor handily in their rematch in February 2008 to solidify his claim as one of boxing’s top pound for pound fighters. He has successfully defended the title twice, both by knockout, against Gary Lockett and Marco Antonio Rubio, the No. 1 contenders and mandatory challengers for the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and the World Boxing Council (WBC), respectively.

Espino (20-2-1, 9 KOs), from North Hollywood, Calif., was featured in the first season of “The Contender” on NBC. He enters this fight riding a four-year, 11-bout winning streak — the last four by knockout. He returns to the ring after one of his career-best victories, a sixth-round TKO of former two-time world champion Alejandro Garcia in his last fight, successfully defending his WBC Caribbean Boxing Federation middleweight title. Trained and managed by John Bray for the last 10 years, Espino has good skills and movement and experience against world-class opposition. He is currently world-rated No. 3 by the WBC.

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Pavlik-Espino Fight Results

• Kelley Pavlik 160 defeated Miguel Espino 159 via TKO in Round 5, 1:44 (WBC/WBO middleweight championship)
• Vanes Martirosyan 153 defeated Willie Lee 152.5 via KO in Round 3, 2:13 (NABF/NABO super welterweight championship)
• Sam Peter 240 defeated Gabe Brown 363 via TKO in Round 4, 2:58
• Matt Korobov 150 defeated Ken Dunham 152 via TKO in Round 3, 1:29
• Mikey Garcia 126 defeated Yogli Herrera 130 via TKO in Round 3, 2:19

Fight Recap

Kelly Pavlik stopped Miguel Espino in the fifth round Saturday night to defend his middleweight titles, ending a difficult year on a high note.

After a 10-month layoff because of a staph infection on his left hand, the WBC and WBO champ dropped Espino to a knee in the fourth round with staggering rights. Pavlik knocked Espino down again in the fifth, and referee Steve Smoger stepped in at 1:44 into the round.

Kelly Pavlik, left, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and Miguel Espino pose after the weigh-in on Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, at Beeghly Center in Youngstown, Ohio. Pavlik will defend his middleweight boxing title Saturday.

It was the third successful title defense for Pavlik, who was back in his hometown on the campus of Youngstown State. Pavlik (36-1, 32 KOs) hadn’t fought since beating Marco Antonio Rubio on Feb. 21 across town at the Chevrolet Centre.

Espino (20-3-1) was rated the No. 3 contender by the WBC, though few gave the fighter from North Hollywood, Calif., much of a chance

Pavlik-Espino Fight Photos

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Pavlik-Espino Weigh-In Photos

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