Martinez by SD. Sturm hardly throws punches and if Martinez can stand on those knees and throw, he will outwork him.
One bad performance doesnt mean you drop 40 places in rankings or at least it shouldnt. Theres guys in the top 40 who are complete nobodies. The WBC has this guy ranked at 36! http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=536759&cat=boxer I think Sergio could still take him somehow, even if his knee completely fell off. And this guy is ranked as high as 20! http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=30943&cat=boxer No wonder belts are becoming more and more meaningless.
WAR Maravilla.just kidding Martinez should just retire already.he looked completely shot against cotto and he even looked bad before that against murray.
It does detract from cottos win he was fighting a guy who was less than a shell of himself in Martinez who lets be honest looked kind of shot against murray a year before the cotto fight.no way in hell cotto does that to a prime Sergio Martinez in fact its the other way around.
Ironically Pulev will have a better single win than Lewis if he beats the current prime Wladimir in his next fight. Very interesting.
I think it has more to do with the presumption/assumption that he is retired and finished with boxing, more so than simply the loss itself????....
Not a bad fight even though it comes when it means little and years after it actually should have. Martinez seems to be done at this point but Sturm has slipped as well. I'd take Sturm right now but at their peaks I'd take Martinez to win cleanly. Makes sense for both guys actually. Martinez probably makes a nice payday off this while facing another faded fighter and not some younger prime middleweight. Sturm gets to(most likely) beat a fighter with a lot of name value in order to postition himself in line for another title shot. I don't think this fight even happens but if it does its not the worse fight two faded former champs could make.
Remember we have never had a satisfactory explaination as to what was wrong with Felix versus soliman. Sturm looked great in his two previous fights, (radosevic and barker) and I don't buy this business of a fighter getting old overnight. Maybe Sturm had an off night for some reason other than being washed up completely. It is possible that Sturm is not yet finished at all, we can't say. Just like one swallow doesn't make a summer, one poor performance doesn't mean a fighter is finished. With Sergio it is a different story, as he is plagued with injuries that we do know about, and he had been awful the year before against Murray too. With Sergio the signs were there for all to see for some time.
Oh - so you discount actual sanctioning body rankings, which (however fractured and cheapened from the glory days they may be) are real and based on positional movement within each org...in favor of the entirely arbitrarily made-up rankings of a magazine, which is owned by a promotional company in a huge conflict of interest. Okay.