Rounds 1 - 3 of Pavlik/Espino

Espino has his gloves up, protecting his head. Might go 2 more rounds.

Stopped after about a minute of the fifth, and Steve Smoger is about the slowest ref to stop fights that you'll ever find.

From what I could see the fight appeared to be basically over after three rounds and the announcers were not seeing what I was seeing at all. They were talking about Pavlik taking punches he didn't need to be taking fighting in close like that and I didn't see anything which looked like Pavlik taking a solid punch. Same sort of thing you used to see with Duran, who could stand six inches away from an opponent and beat that opponent to death without seeming to ever get hit solidly.