Sergio Martinez is a cancer in the MW division

Who has he ducked?

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Well?

 

Anyone who paid the least bit of attention at the time knew that Dzinziruk was forced on Martinez due to HBO owing Shaw a fight as a condition of making Bradley-Alexander. Aside from that, both Sturm and Quillin have turned down offers from Martinez. That leaves Pirog, who's essentially done at this point and Golovkin, who couldn't even fight in the States until 2012 and held the junior version of the WBA belt for most of that period. Likewise, both of those guys would take a fight with Cotto over a fight with Martinez in a minute, so I fail to see how it's a valid criticism for Martinez himself to do the same.

 

NO! YOU ARE WRONG AND STOP TROLLING !

He's a true champion, period.

 

Kelly Pavlik - WBO/WBC Middleweight Champion
Paul Williams 2x - Former Welterweight Champion (Very tall for the weight)
Mathew Macklin - Robbed in Germany vs Sturm for WBA belt
Julio Cesar Chavez - WBC Middleweight Champion
Martin Murray - Robbed in German vs Sturm for WBA belt

Side fights :
Dzinziruk - WBO Junior Middleweight champion
Kermit Cintron (Controversial Draw)
Alex Bunema - WBC Interim Light Middleweight

Honestly Sergio Martinez was overlooked for a long time since fighting at 147 against Margarito and managed to work his way back the hard way despite being robbed in the Cintron/Williams fights and was only stripped due to Politics more than the quality of opposition (Martinez winning back his belt from Julio Cesar Chavez after a lot of chasing)

Sergio is on his way out and who can blame him at 38, Injuries are starting to take its toll

Miguel Cotto is a 3 weight world champion (140/147/154) with losses to Pacquiao/Mayweather and Austin Trout along with the defeat to Margarito which he later avenged . . . . Cotto has no business at 160 but Martinez is coming off a long layoff and injury so obviously is taking a safe bout against a guy who will give him a big payday

So long as his next fight is against GGG then who really cares? same with GGG, he should fight Erislandy Lara who just called him out and to be honest thats a fight that interests me far more than Quillin/Geale/Sturm/Murray

Golovkin Vs Lara - April
Martinez Vs Cotto - June/July

Golovkin Vs Martinez - November/December WBA/WBC Unificationn

 

I am not too interested in the Cotto fight as Sergio has grown into a MW and Cotto is going up in weight again and has not had the best run of late.
I think Martinez MW reign could be a bit underated when you consider that he had to come up in weight initially, beat big punching Pavlik, who had never been beaten at the weight, beat Williams, beat undefeated future champ Barker, beat undefeated Murray, beat undefeated MW champ Chavez, beat undefeated Dzinziruk, Macklin.
Was Pirog pushing for a match up with Martinez? After winning the title he didnt fight as tough a comp as Martinez in my opinion.

who do you feel Martinez ducked, give names
Why do you think he ducked Pirog when you look at who each fought?

 

Martinez is a good fighter, but vastly overrated on this forum. I expect little, past prime, glass-hearted Cotto to give him all he can handle and then some.

 

How is Cotto glass hearted?

 

:gooddeal

 

I meant it ironically. Since you've been around since 2009, you must have read the dozens of threads on here post Cotto-Margarito I and Cotto-Pac about how Cotto is glass hearted, took a knee, etc.

Personally, I don't have any questions about his heart. I also don't think he is past prime, or at least not so much that it will be a factor with Martinez.

 

Sergio is a credit to the sport I feel honored to have witness his amazing career. I dont care if he is an ATG or not at MW he has earned a money fight with Cotto before he'll be forced into a fight with Golovkin. And I think that prime Sergio would've been a night mare match up for GGG. Now GGG takes it by midway KO.