Sergio "Maravilla" Martinez - Now ranked NO: 6 by the WBA

Sexy Sergio is back in top 10. Its just a mater of time he wins his title back

 

Eubank will kill Martinez.
You have a young strong fighter facing an old one with a bum knee.
Better he faces Oscar for his health .

 

Somebody tell Gilberto Mendoza Jr. to kindly fuck right off.

 

This ain't going to end well for Sergio, like the majority of old fighters.

 

DAZN need an opponent for Canelo

Sergio Martinez is one of the biggest names in the Middleweight division.

 

I lost a lot of sympathy for him being ducked when he decided to do the same to Golovkin.

 

Yep! Dropping the belt to Cotto created a huge mess at MW. Martinez at the tail end of his career wanted nothing to do with Golovkin. The detractors can pretend all they want but Sturm, Quillin, Martinez, Cotto, Clenelo(until fishnets thought GGG had aged enough) among others disgracefully ducked Golovkin for years. There's no way around this if you followed the division at the time and weren't blinded by an agenda.

 

BJS was also on record saying he wasn't ready. Korobov lost to Lee and was rebuilding and Pirog had the stones but got injured at the worst time. People also forget that Jacobs was playing hardball as his mandatory challenger too. How often has the challenger had to be semi-forced to take the title shot they've earned for themselves?

 

I think history will be kind to Golovkin with most respected boxing historians seeing that he was clearly ducked at his peak and a victim of boxing politics in general. It's hard to think of someone in recent memory who was as avoided as Golovkin was.

 

The thing I don't get about his detractors is that I think it's fine to think he would have fallen short of the hype but to blame him for being ducked during his physical peak is absolutely ****ing mental.

Who has he not been able to make a fight with who has been willing to fight him at middleweight? No-one. You can make an argument that he should have moved up in search of fights but what guarantee did he have that that would help? Froch and JCC made it clear they weren't taking the fight and Ward would have been a big ask for a debut at the weight before he decided to move up.

 

To rank Sergio in the top ten after one fight is atrocious.

 

One fight against, uh...wtf is that guy's name again???