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Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik's title defense against Paul Williams has been postponed because of a persistent infection in his left hand.

Pavlik was scheduled to fight Williams at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall on Oct. 3. Top Rank spokesman Lee Samuels said the company now expects the fight to be held Nov. 21 or Dec. 5 in the same arena on HBO, but Williams promoter Dan Goossen says he hasn't agreed to anything yet.

Pavlik (35-1, 31 KOs), who holds the WBC and WBO 160-pound belts, has an infection in a knuckle on the middle finger of his hand.

"He can't spar with it," Samuels said. "It's been bothering him for some time, and he just went to see a ...

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