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>> LOOKS LIKES JOHN DUDDY HAS MISSED HIS SHOT, FOR NOW, AT KELLY PAVLIK AND THE MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE Duddy won a majority decision over Walid Smichet in a bout that many at ringside felt he was fortunate to win. But Duddy may have lucked out in the long run because he was badly cut and won’t be able to fight Pavlik in the Garden on June 7. —Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports
>> Boxing has a severe heavyweight drought — as if a meteorite had destroyed the interesting, entertaining, talented ones. HBO’s last pay-per-view heavyweight bout (Rahman-Oleg Maskaev) drew 50,000 buys in August 2006. —Richard Sandomir, nytimes.com
>> The title of heavyweight champion once was among the most magical in sport, but that was yesterday, when the Thrilla was in Manila. Or else ears were being bitten off. Now it battles against the early days of the Grapefruit League for headline space. —Mike Lopresti, Gannett News Service
(Duddy Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images; Insert: Al Bello/Getty Images)