Paul Williams is not as talented as you guys give him credit for.

He took the fight , fell out of grace with Arum and almost got Sued , it was Goosen that saved Antonio for getting sued buy Arum .

After that fight was done Arum resumed control of his fighter and who he would fight next and it was not williams. So even if Williams had said yes Arum would have said no..

Also remember Arum stance on the out come on the fight was that he though Antonio lost and should have not taken the fight per his instructions.

So no he wouldn't have taken the second fight with out Arum , if he did it would have been in breach of contract and Arum could have and would have stopped the fight from happening.

 

To answer your question on whether or not Paul has skills all you have to do is look at anyone of his previous fights. He never had to prove he could outbox Carlos b/c his skills have been showcased numerous times.

The question about Paul in the rematch with Carlos was which Paul was going to show up! And judging from how solid Carlos is and has proven as a legitimate WW contender the 1st round KO was a HUGE surprise! No one has ever KO'd Carlos as devasting or as quickly as Paul.

No one can make any excuses b/c Carlos #1...was coming off a pretty easy Victory over Paul....he wasn't beat up at all and the confidence was through the roof for Quintana......the one thing that may have happened is Carlos was over confident...it happens, but I doubut it.

Afterwards Carlos never expressed wanting to redeem himself, or made any kind of excuses. His body language and lack of communication as a boxer stated he knows he was beaten by the better man and didn't think it was necessary to do it again.

Paul will fight Marg again....and Paul did try to make the fight happen....unfortunatley it was after Margs tremendous preformance agaisnt Cotto and Marg was weighing out his many options. Since Paul made Marg wait....Tony just returned the favor.

But ultimately......PW vs AM is the fight at WW that everyone wants and which means the most. Promoters and camps from all the top WW's out there are seeing $$$....there are so many great potential match ups out there that boxing fans can't loose.

 

6"3???!!! :yikes :?

That can't be right :huh .

I had him pegged as 6"1 tops.


Marg is definately 5"11 though :nod .

 

From the AV it looks like he'd be 6"2. But that ain't accounting for footwear/positioning. It certainly didn't look like 4 inches at fight time.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but Quintana's only other loss came at the hands of Cotto who beat him into submission after the 5th round. Is this what you ment when saying he was stopped early?

 

I didn't know about that...

 

I'm sure Carlos would accept a 3rd fight as well. But he's not working for it at all. Like Marg was asking and pleading for a rematch with Paul....that kind of act never came from Carlos after the rematch and even Paul asking for the immediate rematch with Carlos after the 12 round domination. But you know the deal with the business side of boxing...it's a bit frustrating at times...there are just as many fights on the business side as there are in the ring...if not more!

 

Yeah! Your avatar speaks volumes for the size difference.....Height wise at least....Frame looks about the same, both are really big WWs. Paul is just long and lanky.