Pavlik has hand surgery, eyes Oct. 3 fight

Kelly Pavlik has already missed one fight due to a bout with staph infection. He doesn’t expect to miss another.

Pavlik had surgery on his left hand two weeks ago to clean up some scar tissue stemming from a bout with staph infection last February. His father and co-manager, Mike Pavlik Sr., called it a “pinhole cut,” and said it’s not a big issue.

“It wasn’t healing, so they had to go in there and scrape the scar tissue out of it,” Mike Sr. said. “It’s got to heal from the inside out because it was only healing from the outside.”

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