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Nobody had been as loud or as brash or, some have suggested, as obnoxious at Thursday afternoon's press conference as Miranda, a Colombian who pledged through an interpreter that he would make "barbecue" of Pavlik. Miranda went on and on, and at one point turned to Taylor and implored him to fight him instead of Spinks in the main event. In the seventh round, Pavlik unleashed a left-right-left combination and [referee Steve] Smoker stepped in to end things. Miranda was done talking.

Noah Trister/Associated Press

The star of Saturday’s show was Pavlik, who battered Edison Miranda in an action-packed fight. Pavlik-Miranda was everything Taylor-Spinks wasn’t — both fighters went at each other from the start, defending themselves only by hitting back. Pavlik and Miranda combined to throw 191 punches in the first round alone.

www.ringsidereport.com

The true draw of the evening was the showdown between Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik and Edison “Pantera” Miranda. Who would have guessed that some tall, lanky kid from Ohio could be such a powerhouse in the middleweight division? Momma Pavlik didn’t raise no fool, and Kelly knew coming into this fight that Miranda was a bully, hardened by the cruel streets of impoverished Colombia. Pavlik claimed that the only way to beat a bully is to stand your ground against him. Fans saw a side of Pavlik we had never seen before, a little scary and really exciting.

Matt Amato/Fightnews.com

Kelly Pavlik stepped up and stole the show with a sensational seventh-round knockout of Edison Miranda. It was a classic.

Phil Woolever/thesweetscience.com

When all the boxing business was said and done at the Fed Ex Forum on Saturday night, it was undercard hero Kelly Pavlik who thumped his way to the final word, with a dramatic blastout of Taylor’s latest proposed nemesis, Edison Miranda.

Gabriel Montoya/Doghouseboxing.com

This will be a hard loss [for Miranda] to bounce back from, as it was a thorough and unrelenting beating.