Its sad to hear this about Pavlik,but whatever happens to him he will go down as a legend in my book.When he fought Taylor,that was a huge caste fight.Taylor was unbeaten and had defeated Hopkins twice,Pavlik was also unbeaten and Taylor was the heavy favorite.It was 2005 and the White domination of the upper weight classes wasnt yet fully fledged,Wlad wasnt a reigning champion so Pavlik beating and knocking Taylor out was an important victory at the time,i was on cloud nine for days after the fight.
Alcohol is probably the worst addiction to have,even more than class a drugs.It messes the person up physically.I recently watched an interview with Nick Nolte for the movie Warrior and he's obviously someone who's drunk aot of alchohol throughout his life as he's got that grizzled sounding voice common amongst heavy drinkers.Micky Rourke has the same problem.It was sad seeing him like that,He was great in the film Warrior though,so he's still got his acting chops.