HBO reportedly still interested in Sergio Martinez-Paul Williams III
July 21st, 2011
By Dan Ambrose: Even with Paul Williams having been knocked completely out cold against Sergio Martinez (47-2-2, 26 KO’s) two fights again and looking very poor in a recent questionable 12 round majority decision over Erislandy Lara on July 9th of this month, HBO is reportedly still interested in showing Sergio Martinez vs. Paul Williams III, according to news from Sportsillustrated.cnn.com.
Now, Williams will be going back to fighting orthodox fighters to try for a change of luck. It obviously won’t help him get ready for a third fight with Martinez, but then again Williams won’t get a third fight if he gets battered by southpaw fighters. Williams needs to face someone good enough to where he can change some minds of boxing fans.
Martinez doesn’t think that Williams has anything left, saying to Sports Illustrated “He’s not at the same level he used to be. He looked like he was affected by my knockout. It’s very sad but he’s not the same. I don’t think he is there anymore. I don’t think he has the killer instinct.”
Martinez could be right. Williams doesn’t look to be the same fighter he was going into his second fight with him, and the brutal knockout loss does seem to have taken something away from Williams’ game. But what’s really strange is that HBO would be interested in a third fight between Williams and Martinez. You would think that after how badly Williams fought against Lara and how he was knocked completely out against Martinez last time that HBO would say no to a third fight. Maybe they think it would be a fight that would be good for ratings. I don’t see it as a good fight for boxing fans unless you’re into watching someone get pummeled and knocked out badly.
Martinez faces Darren Barker on October 1st in his next fight. This should be a fairly competitive fight for six or seven rounds, but it’s going to likely end with Martinez knocking the over-matched Barker out by midpoint in the fight.
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3 IS POINTLESS HES STILL GETTING HIT BY THE SAME PUNCH AND HIS TRAINER N HIM DONT SEEM TO THINK THIS IS A PROBLEM THEY NEED TO FIX AND HE LOST TO LARA WHO OUT BOXED HIM ALL DAY,,,SERGIO SHOULD FIGHT LARA OR ABRAHAM ,, I HEARD TAYLORS COMMING BACK BUT HE’S PROBLEBLY GONNA GET K.O.’D IN HIS NEXT FIGHT NOT EVEN WORTH MATCHIN UP WITH MARTINEZ….POINTLESS!!!!
To be honest I see on point on Martinez Williams 3.I had Martinez winning the first match but they gave it to williams, then in the rematch Williams got blown out.Then loses to Lara and gets a gift decision.Marva should fight Abeahams who is headed back to the middle weight division or maybe Taylor who is supose to be making a come back in the middle weight division.
III would be pointless. PWill still gets hit by the same shot. His team STILL hasn’t fixed that.
WTF??? —- man after I saw Paul get hiss handed to him and his trainer managed to utter the words in the 10th round that he neededa k.o.—-Paul then stole and paid the judges the descion…and you think you can take another freakin CAR CRASH KO from SERG???—-LMFAO!!! CANt wait to see that Paul will once again say that he hurt SERG”s hand with his HEAD!!!
Williams was always a fraud fight smaller sub par fighters to make him look good .When he had to fight real Fighters he go whipped much to my delight
Well mayve if a death occurs from multiple punches to williams which is likely to happen since all the left hooks are goin to conect, HBO should be sued for millions of dollars for being supposedly interested in seen this masacre happen just to get the audience what they want besides in don’t believe after asking many many people that they want to see this masacre its HBO ratings, its a bad bad idea guys don’t do it, this guy williams is not all there anymore.
I don’t see how HBO can even consider the 3rd fight. The way Williams has been fighting doesn’t even categories him on Martinez level. Waist of time. I would love to see Martinez vs. Canelo if Canelo were to move up in weight. Canelo would light up Martinez..
sergio should fight lara….fair is fair.
Will HBBO make sure that the Judges arent Fixed? and will HBO make williams fight Lara again or award Lara his richly deserved win
I don’t blame HBO the want to see Paul William get ko
Paul cant avoid the straight left hand. Hope Paul doesnt take the fight right away he is not the same as he used to be and Sergio could hurt him real bad.
Martinez is scared he might lose…..I am goin with Paul…..Martinez just got luuuuucky
because of williams dark skin it’s hard to see how cut his face was in the first fight, it was worse than palviks face against martinez, watch the fight in slow motion and you can see blood flying all over the place everytime martinez knocks the hell out of him
@milo
did you see williams v lara???? bc if you did it would be clear as day that paul is a shadow of his former self
Williams beat Martinez in an exciting and close fight, and then got caught with a great punch in the rematch. Why everyone thinks he would be totally dominated in a rubber match is beyond me; I would love to see that fight.
That fight cant happen. Williams will go to sleep and never wake up!
@ boxer
Well said, I couln’t have said it better.
Why?HBO knows Erislandy Lara beat Paul.Why see a repeat of Martinez vs Williams 2 with Paul seriously getting hurt.No need for that!!!
why would they want to see sergio beat the hell out of him again? he brutally cut williams up and beat the hell out of him the first time, was robbed and almost killed him the second time.
Martinez lost to Margarito years back and before Margarito pacman bout happened he said he wouldnt want to hurt and retire Margarito. So he’s a caring man and knows that he would seriously hurt Williams too.