After having over 30 + fights Why did Segio Martinez take on a 4 rounder.

maybe he just wanted to be active, he went up to 10 and after all that his fights have been 12

 

He wants to be the new Butterbean

 

It was on the undercard of Pavlik-Taylor 2....to many more well known fighters on the card for him to have more than a 4 rounder i guess.

Mijares, Fernando Montiel, Ronald Hearns, Brian Viloria and Danny Jacobs on that undercard.

 

The loss to Margarito was a big set back. Martinez toiled in obscurity for years. He never had a big name promoter until he signed with diBella just a couple years ago. He had to take what he could get.

 

There are belt holders who take 4-rounder tune-ups in between defenses. It really isn't all that strange.

 

The non-title tune-up is a lot less common than it used to be.

 

Yep it is, but I guess that has something to do with the enormous amount of belts these days. 'Champions' can just pick an easy target from the list and call it a voluntairy defence, lot more money with same class opponent, only with a small risk losing the belt with a major upset.

 

Martinez was avoided ever since he wiped out the British 154lbs competition back in 2003&04, and it took 4 freaking years to get an eliminator while others with strong promotional backing got their gift title shots. It still took 1,5 years after he knocked out Roman to get the interim opportunity as Forrest (RIP) refused to face him (to the point he was stripped), so it's only logical that Martinez kept himself busy in those hard years, and it payed off later. But he still had to recieve an outrageous draw vs. knocked out Cintron and that highly debatable loss to Williams before taking Pavlik to school (and getting stripped of 2 titles right after he visited ABC HQ for the belts, lol), but he finally got what this true gentleman and ****ing boxing sensation deserved after years and years of politics keeping him away. Best story since Glen Johnson's superb 2004, and if he beats Williams (with no Pierre Benoist in a 100 miles circle), he'll be the Fight of the Year, absolutely deserving.

 

Stripped his light-middle title which Pacquiao & Margarito are fighting for. Still got the WBC 160 though