ESPN's Dan Rafael was working the phones and tapping the keyboard furiously in the hours before the Top Rank card at the Madison Square Garden Theater, breaking the story that ex-middleweight champ Kelly Pavlik was hanging up the gloves, at age 30. At the Garden, neither Bruce Trampler nor Brad Goodman, Top Rank matchmakers, had heard the news when I asked them about it. Good for Kelly, both said. Trampler said it was likely Pavlik would have signed on for a fight with Canada-based Lucian Bute, after his fight with Andre Ward was scrapped, because Ward hurt his shoulder.
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