Bantamweights Pavin And Gray In PGA Media Center Catfight****

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Steve Elling missed his calling as a boxing writer.

In a tense exchange in the middle of the PGA Championship media center on Wednesday, Golf Channel reporter Jim Gray stuck a finger in U.S. captain Corey Pavin’s chest, called him a liar and barked, “you’re going down.”

And a certain Golf Channel reporter has been to one-too many boxing newsconferences!

Oh and there's a recording. Lisa, can you say YouTube!

As Gray approached him and they jawed at each other, Pavin said he tried to hold his ground.

“I just said, ‘You’re full of ‘something,’ ” Pavin said. “I’m not going to let that happen. He got upset. His eyes were a little odd … He was just a little crazy.”

Pavin’s wife was extremely agitated about the exchange and ripped Gray for not broaching the issue when more reporters were in the room. She was overheard complaining to a PGA of America official that Gray was a “wuss.”

Of her husband’s supposed guarantee to Woods, she said, “He’s not stupid. He’s had media training.”

Brooks has posted video of Gray's midday clarification of yesterday's precipitating events leading to today's bout