How good was a prime Sergio Martinez?

Ranks higher up than that fraud Cotto.

 

Not especially high. A good unorthodox fighter in a poor division.

 

Martinez was a little over rated. His best win is a Pavlik who had been **** ****d by Hopkins, and not the same fighter anymore, and Paul Williams, who was a blown up welterweight. Martinez avoided Pirog, and Golovkin, so as not to be exposed. Martinez would have been a contender during the 90s, but never a champ.

 

top contender is misleading in his middleweight era. Williams, Chavez Jr., Macklin, Barker, Dzinziruk etc. wouldn't have been in the ten best middleweights if they fought in the 90s. Pavlik is a decent win, but it wasn't the Pavlik that KO'd Taylor. It was the Pavlik that had just been made the cabin boy of Hopkins. He wasn't the same fighter after that.

 

The early 90s MW division was stacked, it's a shame we didn't get too many matchups between the top guys at 160. It was oozing with talent.

Martinez being the king of the middleweights and #3 p4p just was the reflection of a weak era overall and/or people overrating him. In the early 90s, he wouldn't be top 3.....in the middleweight division let alone p4p.

He was a good fighter and excellent athlete considering how late he started boxing.

 

How did Martinez avoid GGG? by the time ppl started even mentioning Golovkin Martinez was injured and when he came back he got retire by Cotto.

Martinez at his peak at MW would trash GGG, MW is arguably weaker right now then when Martinez was on top.