Sergio 'The Outsider' Martinez gets ESPN's Fighter of the Year award!

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  1. BigBone

    BigBone Boxing Addict Full Member

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    And that's a huge blow to the greedy promoters pushing their own fighters ahead and keeping unsupported dangermen out in the cold, to the corrupt sanctioning bodies standing behind the major promoters for bigger fees, to the major networks creating the hype for the major promoters and to all the writers covering any **** up that doesn't fit in the 'official' picture. One by one they went down by a picture perfect counter left of Sergio Maravilla Martinez, giving the sport of boxing, sweet science a long awaited breather as air was totally sucked out by the shady businessmen and fights that failed to go through.

    Sergio Martinez single-handedly turned 2010 from a feel-bad to a feel-good year, and it's the most fantastic feeling when someone from the 'outside' crashes through the well-guarded gates, when dedication, heart and determination outlast greedy promoters who successfully kept Maravilla away from their money-makers for long long years.

    But when we'll look back to Maravilla's year in one or many decades, will 2010 be that special occasion when someone 'not in the script' made it despite everything working against him, or is this the benchmark year when sweet science took back the control from the businessmen and mobsters? I certainly hope that no other fighter will have to waste his entire prime because of the wrong passport or no rich people standing behind him, but whatever the future holds for us, let's just be happy that Sergio Martinez made it, it's quite a story!

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    BigBone, Dec 27, 2010
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  2. Swarmer

    Swarmer Patrick Full Member

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    ^5 Maravilla! You earned it!

    Hopefully all the potential energy of the MWs turns into something kinetic- lots of real exciting fights there for prospects and they ain't getting made!
     
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  3. floyd_g.o.a.t

    floyd_g.o.a.t Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    King is no1 atm for sure
     
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  4. cesare-borgia

    cesare-borgia Übermensch in fieri Full Member

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    he deserves it hands down
     
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  5. saul_ir34

    saul_ir34 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    All right!!

    He was really the only one who had a shot at it. No one else faced opposition as tough as he did.

    Underdog both times and came through in spectacular fashion on both.

    I guarantee you Pac gets it through some of the other boxing outlets though which like you said is just because of the guarded gate community the boxing celebrities have.

    I really really wanna see a PBF-Martinez fight. Please make it happen next year!!!
     
    saul_ir34, Dec 27, 2010
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  6. Boom_Boom

    Boom_Boom R.I.P Boxing 6/9/12 Full Member

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    Irrelevant award.
     
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  7. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Marvelous news. :happy
     
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  8. BigBone

    BigBone Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Did you lose an avatar bet or WTH is with that avatar?
     
    BigBone, Dec 27, 2010
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  9. Zopilote

    Zopilote Dinamita Full Member

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    Woohooo!!!

    Good for Maravilla, dude deserves it!! :good
     
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  10. Atritionist

    Atritionist Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Props to Sergio, he really did earn it.
     
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  11. 555east

    555east Well-Known Member Full Member

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    **When will The Ring announce their choice for Fighter of the Year

    good for Sergio .. his fights weren't hyped to the high heavens or on PPV, but he still fought and defeated two well regarded opponents

    he's very deserving of the award and I'm glad he got it.
     
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  12. bachatu

    bachatu Pro Full Member

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    stop hating, its better than nothing
     
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  13. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    It was really only ever a two horse race between him and pascal, and pascal's disappointing performance against hopkins, combined with sergio's fantastic performance vs williams ensured that only one credible man could walk away with the accolade.

    Fantastically deserved sergio
     
    lufcrazy, Dec 27, 2010
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  14. Tackleberry

    Tackleberry The Reverse Somersault! Full Member

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    This.

    Congrats to Sergio. Am hoping for a Martinez/Cotto clash after Mayorga and TBA bites the dust!
     
    Tackleberry, Dec 27, 2010
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  15. bigboxingfan

    bigboxingfan Hypejob Full Member

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    Congrats to Maravila. Well deserved
     
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