Paul Williams defeats Sergio Martinez
December 5th, 2009
By Jim Dower: World Boxing Organization interim light middleweight champion Paul Williams (38-1, 27 KOs) defeated WBC light middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (44-2-2, 24 KOs) by a 12 round majority decision at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Martinez knocked Williams down in the 1st round, but Williams repaid the favor by knocking Martinez down as well. The final judges’ scores for the fight were 115-113, 119-110 and 114-114.
After the 4th round, Williams seemed to pull away from Martinez and get the better of him in the remainder of the fight. It was nice that Martinez was landing an occasional pot shot and hitting Williams cleanly with the harder shots from time to time, but Williams was putting a lot of punches together and out-landing Martinez by a significant margin. For every six to eight punches from Williams, Martinez would land one shot, and they weren’t always the harder shots. in most cases, they were no harder than Williams’ punches.
In the 5th round, Martinez moved around the ring constantly, his hands down by his sides looking to land a quick shot. Williams wasn’t bothered by Martinez’s movement, as he continued to track him down and throw a lot of punches. Some of them missed, but many of them connected cleanly. In the 6th round, Williams looked like the much better fighter, landing at a significantly higher number of shots. Martinez landed next to nothing during the entire round. It was really one-sided.
The 7th round was close, as Martinez finally started throwing punches again, and landed some nice shots. Still, however, Williams was the busier fighter and landed more punches once again. I couldn’t give the round to Martinez because he just wasn’t putting in the work and was still running all over the place trying to avoid Williams.
Martinez continued to fight reasonably well into the 8th round, landing the cleaner shots, although still getting outworked by Williams and running much of the time. The running was off putting and hard for me to give Martinez as much credit. However, he appeared to win the round by a whisker.
In the 9th round, Martinez’s momentum ground to a halt as he spent too much time running and not enough time punching. He looked like he was trying to avoid the fight for some reason. It wasn’t movement to get in punching range. I saw movement to avoid fighting. And on top of that, Martinez, again, didn’t throw or land enough punches.
In rounds ten through twelve, Williams was the clear winner of those rounds, simply because Martinez wasn’t throwing anywhere near the same amount of punches that Williams. There was long stretches where Williams was the only one throwing and landing. Martinez looked like he was running for his life and looked all of his age.
In the end, I could only give Martinez roughly two rounds, possibly three at the most. He just didn’t do enough and his running caused him to lose the fight in my view.
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Anybody that saw the martinez fight knows that he was robbed if it was called a boxing match but it wasnt as everybody saw williams slapping and martinez landing the effective punches what a travesty that martinez put forth such a great effort and got robbed in the end .But thats what we put up by letting the judges be influenced by promoters. What a joke!!!!!!!!!
after watching pavlic vs hopkins//i can,t beleive that was the middleweight champion..hell if thats the way pavlic is going to fight in all his fights..then williams has got a great chance..rosco..perth..w.a.
…earth 2 beniost
Williams is overrated. Pavlik has nothing to fear….another robbery
You give the fight where the future momey is, not to who won the match.
all judges were from USA thats not right
Imagine what my right hook would do to williams
I want to fight paul williams next after i demolish floyd.
Martinez and Williams had a great fight. i really wouldn’t care if Sergio won, but it should of been a draw.
the 2nd fight judges stole from martinez
this had draw written all over it. Any promotion that would consider the 119-110 judge to work a fight should be investigated. Maybe now Pavliks people will be a little less relucttant.
A decision like this shows what is wrong with boxing. Anyone who watched this fight knows a 119-110 score is ridiculous!! Was the judge protecting a HBO investment….hmmmmm!! To Williams’ credit..he is so talented that he can’t get fights on a routine basis, and his ring rust showed here. Also, Paul has a tendency to take certain opponents too lightly, this fight should have been a draw at lest.
I was just an interested observer last night and scored it 114-114. Credit to both fighters for a great fight.
Benoist is a disgrace. 119-110 is so wrong. The thing that worried me is the lack of repercussions for judges. Does anything ever get done about it or does everyone briefly complain and then move on to thenext fight?? I hate to see injustice – and on that note – good luck to paulie malignaggi next week as I hope he avenges another joke decision…
119 to 110 ?????? Check his ties to the mob…If I ever see his name as a judge before a fight I definetely will walk out or change the channel…
A draw with a rematch I could stomache, but it really was Martinez by 2…do I get the job.
The “most avoided man in boxing”.. Surely martinez’ performance will be an eye opener for others, if not for martinez himself in a rematch… If he could have maintained his stamina throughout the fight, it would have been cleary a martinez victory!!!!
ANOTHER CROOKED JUDGES! THERE SHOULD BE A COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING THESE JUDGES, ITS SO STUPID AND THEY’RE RUINING THE SPORTS. I CAN’T BELIEVE IT KEEPS HAPPENING OVER AND OVER AGAIN. MAX KELLERMAN IS RIGHT, TIME TO CALL AND GET RID OF THESE SO-CALLED CROOKED JUDGES!
Williams is going to get blasted by Kelly Pavlik if they meet at 160. Paul gets hit way too much and you saw how that nicely placed punch by Martinez dropped him. Pavlik will crush him with that sledgehammer power.
jugde Benoist, shouldnt be allowed to judge a pro fight EVER again. What a joke this guy has a job and is allowed to score it like that and f*** up such a close fight. ban the dude please for the sake of the sport.
MARTINEZ WAS ROBBED!! HE WON BY AT LEAST 5 POINTS HAROLD LEDERMAN AND THE MORON JUDGES DONT KNOW CRAP, LOOKS LIKE MAX KELLERMAN AND JIM LAMPLEY ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT KNOW WHATS UP!
Paul is very overated.
119-110? Benoist, sounds like moist. Like his thinking and probably his ..
this is why boxing is losing its lustre…. judges man
I had sergio by one point
I have it 7-5 sergio. He landed the cleaner punches and used better movement. REMATCH!
ROUND 11 AND 12 WERE FOR MARTINEZ ILL SAY….WHEN MARTINEZ WENT DOWN IN ROUND 1 IT WAS REALLY BECAUSE OF A HARD PUNCH IT WAS SOFT PUNCH AND WAS OFF BALANCED… NOW WHEN PAUL WENT DOWN HE WENT DOWN ON A HARD RIGHT PUNCH. MARTINEZ WAS MAKING PAUL MISS LEFT AND RIGHT. I REALLY THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE AN EASY WIN FOR PAUL … BUT INSTEAD IT WAS A HARD WIN FOR MARTINEZ.
Martinez only won rounds 1-3, 8, and 10. And if you take away both knockdowns in round 1, that round would’ve went to Paul Williams. Paul Williams 7 rounds to Martinez 5.
I felt Paul won a very close fight,Sergio shocked me,hes a very good fighter,I honestly didnt think sergio would give Williams problems..repects to both fighters for a great fight..but I felt Paul williams pulled it off
I thought Sergio won 7-5 (115-113). I can’t really argue with someone who scored it 7-5 for Paul because it was very close. I just think Sergio did more damage in this fight.
But 119-110? Who is this person? Unbelievable. Sergio winning ONE round? ONE? ONE? ONE?
Get out of here with that nonsense.
I love boxing but damn this kill boxing, No way Paul Williams won this fight, He did throw more and hit more but most of them was soft punches, He only land a few power shots, Martinez throw and land the power shots all nite Plus he make paul miss a lot a ton of times and really beat him, At least a draw, but Paul didnt won.
Great fight tonight ,
I am a fan of Paul W , but I think tonight he did not win. Martinez deserved at least a draw , but a idiot judge named Pierre Benoist favor Paul by 119-110. Let’s be serious !!!!! This kind of judge is destroying the sport of boxing.
imagine how much more of a bad a s s martinez would be if he would have started boxing at 10 years old instead of 19. great fight.
i think martinez won this fight but a draw can be ok but guys 119-110 unbelievable, this year the argentinians martinez and maidana show on hbo that boxing “stars” are not really “STARS” and martinez will have more chances in the future because he showed to the world that he is a top fighter as maidana the same, they just need good promotions.
i think martinez won this fight but a draw can be ok but guys 119-110 unbelievable, this year the argentinians martinez and maidana show on hbo that boxing “stars” are not really “STARS” and martinez will have more chances in the future because he showed to the world that he is a top fighter as maidana the same, they just need good promotions
I gave Martinez the edge.
DID U GUYS SEE PAULS FACE? SERGIO WAS PRETTY MUCH CLEAN… MIGHT NOT MATTER MUCH … BUT CLEARLY MARTINEZ LANDED MORE POWER PUNCHES… I REALLY THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE EASY FOR PAUL… BUT SERGIO IS JUST A GREAT FIGHTER AND HANST GOTTEN THE CREDIT HE DESERVES. I THINK SERGIO SURPRISED MANY VIEWERS I MYSELF DINT THINK HE WAS GOING TO DO THIS GOOD. I THINK HE ACTUALLY BEAT PAUL. WASAP WITH THAT 119- 110 …WHAT DOES A GUY HAVE TO DO TO WIN? MARTINEZ SHOULD FIGHT WINNER OF MANNY AND RING RUNNER FLOYD.
…once again someone proves how beatable Paul Williams is.
119-110 I can’t even describe how crooked that is