By Dan Ambrose: In the latest boxing news, WBO middleweight champion Dmitry Pirog (19-0, 15 KO’s) wants to take on WBC Diamond middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (48-2-2, 27 KO’s) in the first part of 2012 in a fight that would take place in Moscow, Russia.

Supposedly there would be a lot of money in it for the 36-year-old Martinez if he were to choose to accept the fight.

I don’t buy it. I doubt doubt that Pirog isn’t interested in fighting Martinez, but I do have doubts about it being a huge payday for Martinez. I think Martinez has got much better options than to face a guy that few boxing fans have heard of in the United States. I don’t care if the fight where to take place in Russia.

Martinez wants important fights against guys like WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez, WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao or WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. Those fights are at the top of Martinez’s list and will remain so unless Pirog can somehow guarantee that a fight between him and Martinez would be a huge money bout.

Pirog, 31, won the vacant WBO title last year with a 6th round stoppage over previously highly hyped contender Daniel Jacobs. However, since then, Pirog has been a disappointment to a lot of boxing fans, fighting only twice and beating obscure contenders Javier Francisco Maciel and Gennady Martirosyan. Fans have wanted to see Pirog face guys like Andy Lee, Martinez, Matthew Macklin and Felix Sturm, but have had to settle for guys that that many fans have never even heard of.

While I like Pirog as a fighter, I think Martinez would knock him out cold without any problems. I think Pirog would be better off facing Lee, Darren Barker or Macklin instead to prove that he’s up to the mark.