Best recognized as "The Ghost", Kelly Pavlik is a former professional boxer with an estimated net worth of $6 million as of 2012.

Kelly Pavlik held the WBC, The Ring and WBO championship from September 29, 2007 until April 17, 2010 after defeating Jermain Taylor. He lost all of his championship titles to Sergio Martínez .

Kelly Pavlik debuted into professional boxing in 2000. Since then, he had a total of 42 fights. Throughout his entire boxing career, he won 40 out of his 42 fights, 34 of which were won via knockout. His most famous fights were against Edison Miranda, Jermain Taylor, Gary Lockett, Bernard Hopkins, Marco Antonio Rubio, and Sergio Martinez.

On January 26, 2013, Pavlik was supposed to have a fight against Andre Ward, however it was postponed to February 23, 2013 due to the shoulder injury which Ward suffers from. However, the fight never pushed through because Pavlik announced his retirement on January 19, 2013.

Kelly Robert Pavlik was born on April 5, 1982 in Youngstown, Ohio, U.S.A. After attending, Pavlik studied at Lowellville High School. Prior to his professional boxing career, he trained at the South Side Boxing Gym in Youngstown under Jack Loew.