Was Uncle Bob right about Dibella not promoting Martinez properly? Or through no fault of their own, are Dibella and Martinez being controlled by the powers that be(i.e. Bob Arum)? Hmmm...Where does Martinez go from him...with no belt? Can Showtime help? What can Dibella do to get Martinez big fights?!
i dont know but..... 2 things - 1) Martinez needs to get an aggressive promoter who can get him onto the big stage and money 2) Martinez needs to shut his ****ing mouth so his "new" promoter can do his job instead of trying to clean up / mitigate problems instead. His mouth does a good job burning up bridges towards the big stage.
Martinez is the Ring champ. Only fake champs like Canelo, Chavez Jr, and Povetkin need paper belts like the WBC and WBA. Promote him as THE middleweight champ, the best middleweight. The Macklin fight should sell, an Irishman on St. Pat's day getting a shot at the middleweight title, how can it not? After that they should seriously look at Ward if they have no intention of fighting the Pirog's and Proksa's at middleweight. A win of that magnitude would catapult Martinez possibly into the P4P #1 position. Of course that comes with high risk, but a loss shouldn't hurt him too much. He'd still be middleweight champ should he lose with good fights still waiting there for him to re-establish himself.
What is DiBella supposed to do, pull a gun on the Chavez's to make them sign a contract? Sue the WBC for breaking their own rules every chance they get to protect Jr? Boxing promotion is a game of connections and Bob Arum is using those connections to sabotage Sergio Martinez.
DiBella is clearly not as good a promoter as Top Rank in general, but I sincerely doubt that Martinez would be in a much better situation if he was was with Arum. He'd still be kept away from the money guys at Top Rank, and the company hasn't actually demonstrated any talent at all in recent times for promoting guys like him who have no natural fan base. The belt situation doesn't really matter. The one thing Showtime could do is actually build up middleweights for Martinez to fight, rather than just constantly throwing him in with guys unseen and unknown in the US and keeping him away from Chavez at all costs, as was HBO's MO this year. Showtime was actually considering Geale-Pirog, and while they didn't sign that fight, if they now have the legitimate middleweight champion they might be more inclined to pick up fights like that.
