Sergio Martinez looking at Cory Spinks, Antonio Margarito
by SC on Dec 6, 2009 10:49 AM EST
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Rick Reeno reports this morning that Sergio Martinez and promoter Lou DiBella are already thinking about the 154-pound titlist's next fight after a rousing performance last night. Martinez lost a narrow, back-and-forth war with Paul Williams in a fight that should raise the stock of both men.
One option is Cory Spinks, as Don King has already contacted DiBella about that fight, which would be a title unification bout if both the WBC (Martinez) and IBF (Spinks) sanctioned it. Spinks (37-5, 11 KO) won the IBF belt against Deandre Latimore in April, his only 2009 fight.
King apparently has a March date on HBO lined up, which will feature Spinks and fellow St. Louis titleholder Devon Alexander. Martinez-Spinks on paper sounds like it could be a bit of a stinker given their reputations as counter punchers, but I think Martinez has shown an ability to lay back and wait and come forward pretty well, he just doesn't come forward in a brawling nature the way a guy like Ricky Hatton or Alfredo Angulo do. He's not a pressure fighter, but he can lead action. And Spinks, for all the guff he's taken over the years, has actually put up two straight perfectly entertaining fights with Latimore and Verno Phillips.
The other main target, according to Lou DiBella, is Antonio Margarito:
"We would love to get Spinks in March. My guy showed everyone tonight that he can fight his ass off and proved that he is one of the best fighters in the world. Paul Williams told me after the fight that Martinez is the best guy that he ever fought. I think Martinez could clean out the junior middleweight division. Margarito is another guy we want. We would love to get Margarito next year," DiBella told BoxingScene.com.
Margarito beat Martinez (TKO-7) way back in 2000 at welterweight. If that doesn't frame just how long ago it really was, let me put it this way: The main event of that card was Barrera-Morales. The first one.
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I’d rather see a rematch than Martinex fight Spinks, but he should go for the fight that makes him the most money. He should know by now that he won’t win a fight in the US unless he literally kills the other guy, so just go for the $$$.
I would love for him to fight Williams once more… but I can understand if he wants to fight Spinks. I think he will just bust him up in that fight.
I think that Martinez would cruise to a W vs Margarito… we have no reason to have faith that Margarito wasn’t cheating. I think it has been proven that Martinez has a championship level chin…
"Boxing is dirty," said Casamayor. " The day I’m not ready to be a dirty fighter is the day I don’t fight anymore because it will mean that I have no heart for it anymore."
Margo wpould be a great fight—one for redemption.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant"
---Vernon Forrest 2006
by The Midnight Rambler on Dec 6, 2009 11:26 AM EST reply actions
Screw that
I had Martinez winning last night. Let’s get a rematch going!
"Penelosa is not human." -Max Kellerman on Gerry Penelosa during the Juan Manuel Lopes-Gerry Penelosa bout.
I don't know who else is with me...
…but I am so glad Pavlik withdrew from this fight. Best fight I’ve seen in years in that division last night.
"Penelosa is not human." -Max Kellerman on Gerry Penelosa during the Juan Manuel Lopes-Gerry Penelosa bout.
He don't want another fight like that
The fight was a great one. Don’t think Martinez wants another war. Seemed like he lost his will from round 4-8. Don’t think he has ever been in a true “fight” sat. those boys were not boxing they were in a fight and I dont see Martinez signing up for another “fight” he is looking for a boxing match. And that is what a fight with Spinks says to me. Margarito already has a victory over him, so I think that is just lip service, unless Mirgarito goes to Spain and takes less money.
??
All I know is, Williams looked a hell of a lot more disquieted after the fight than Martinez did.
I suspect this opinion comes from the same place Manny Steward’s “I just feel like Williams is tougher than Martinez” opinion came from, wherever that is.
Agree
PW had more cuts and one of the big cuts was from a headbut, although he took a lot clean blows to the head. But SM looked like after rd 7-8 like he might not come out of the corner. His corner was throwing water on him like he was done. It was a war, I just don’t think he wants another war, if he can take easier fights and make close to the money he did for this fight. Just my 2 cents.
by DL3 on Dec 7, 2009 9:13 PM EST up reply actions
As I suspected, the early returns indicate that you’re just totally wrong. In fact, what you think is the opposite of the truth.
http://www.ringtv.com/blog/1396/it_was_a_bleeping_great_fight/
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Barely beating Sergio Martinez might make the self-professed most-feared man in boxing avoid a rematch.
Paul Williams and his promoter, Dan Goossen, didn’t sound all that interested in granting Martinez a second chance after Williams escaped with a hard-fought majority decision win in their thrilling 12-round middleweight fight Saturday night at the Adrian Phillips Ballroom inside Boardwalk Hall.
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"It was an error, a true error," Martinez said of Benoist’s scorecard. "We should have a rematch."
Martinez (44-2-2, 24 KOs) shouldn’t count on an opportunity to avenge his first loss since Mexico’s Antonio Margarito knocked him out in the seventh round in February of 2000 in Las Vegas.
Goossen acknowledged that the fight Saturday night warranted a rematch. Nevertheless, he instead talked about matching Williams with Bernard Hopkins or Shane Mosley, if Mosley beats undefeated Andre Berto on Jan. 30 in Las Vegas.
Rematch has to happen but it doesn’t have to be immediate. I think rematches are generally more entertaining when you give the hype some time to re-percolate.
Williams was still very impressive despite the closeness of the fight, as Martinez is also a terrific fighter. But man, did he take a lot of clean head shots. Steward commented after the fight that the fight took a lot out of both men. I don’t see it that way. Martinez took a handful of good shots, but the main reason he was worn down at the end was because of fatigue. He didn’t seem beat up at all. Williams, in contrast, looked like he wasn’t entirely sure where he was and his interview with Kellerman was a little bit garbled. So I think the fight took a lot more out of him. I mean, he took as many clean head shots on Saturday as Margarito did against Cotto. That doesn’t mean it’ll show effects as early as 2010, but it does suggest to me that Williams will not enjoy a very long prime. He took a lot of good head shots against Margarito and Quintana as well, and you can’t just keep on doing that year after year.
Like everyone else, I thought the result was defensible although the Benoist card was nuts. I scored the fight a draw – my card was the same as Lederman’s except that I gave Martinez the 11th. (I don’t know how Harold gave that round to Williams, because I thought that was an easy one. I vaguely recall that he also gave a late round to Williams in the first Quintana fight that was equally weird.) I scored Diaz-Malignaggi I a draw too, but I thought the Benoist card was a little bit worse than the Van Hoy card because in Diaz-Malignaggi, I felt like I was splitting the close rounds evenly, while in this fight I felt like I was giving most of the close rounds to Williams.
I had it a draw as well
Finally watched it last night. But I think I scored 3 rounds differently than Hurrold, and I did give the 11th to Williams.
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NO
way PW won the 11th, IMO. PLEASE, just say NO to Corey Spinks!
Rematch
That was an excellent fight … Period ! That could have went any way. Martinez did way better than I thought he would.
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