Sergio Martinez to meet doctor next Tuesday for tests on his injuries

By Cameron - 09/08/2014 - Comments

martinez693By Cameron Gillon: Former WBC, WBO and Ring middleweight champion Sergio Martinez career will be decided next week when he meets with a doctor to run tests on the injuries he has occurred over recent years.

Martinez is coming off a heavy loss to the new WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto where Martinez lost that title to Cotto, Martinez to me was a favorite and I gave Cotto no chance of winning this fight due to Cotto not ever fighting at 160 and Martinez still being good enough to beat Cotto.

That wasn’t the case as Cotto put Martinez down three times in the 1st round and then again in the 9th. The fight was stopped by Martinez’s trainer who could clearly see Martinez was not going to win on the scorecards and had nothing left to go for the knockout. Martinez’s legs couldn’t handle Cotto’s power shots and the only thing that kept Martinez was going was the heart he has. I have to give Cotto credit for the win. Despite Martinez being well shot and a shell of his former self, he looked impressive and boxed smartly. When Cotto knocked Martinez down, he didn’t become reckless and bided his time in winning the fight and looked good in doing so compared to his recent performances.

Martinez has recently stated he would like to fight on with his career but for me its time for him to call time on his career. For such a late starter in the sport, he only started boxing at the age of 20 and what a career he has had. He won his first major title in 2003 when he defeated Richard Williams to win the IBO light middleweight title. In 2010, Martinez defeated the hard hitting Kelly Pavlik to win the Ring, Lineal, WBC and WBO middleweight titles and become the undisputed middleweight champion of the world. Martinez then went on to defend them titles against the likes of the great Paul Williams in a brutal knockout in their rematch, British fighters Matthew Macklin and Darren Barker and gave Mexican star Julio Cesar Chavez Jr his first loss in taking his WBC title back. That was the last fight Martinez really looked himself as the injuries he suffered happened in that fight. It was a brutal fight and one Martinez had to give the fight of his life to win.

Sergio Martinez will always be one of the best pound for pound fighters. To me. an uninjured and prime Sergio Martinez would be continuing to clear out the middleweight division today, including beating the highly rated power puncher Gennady Golovkin. That would of been a big fight and one we would of been talking about if Martinez beat Cotto. When Martinez was in his prime and was at 154, he wanted a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr to which Mayweather turned away from as Martinez was a very strong fighter and had a smart boxing brain. After not getting the big fights at 154, Martinez moved up to middleweight and that’s where he made a name for himself. If he continues to fight he could cause further damage to his injuries. At this stage he would likely get beat badly by a lower opposition fighter, and no one wants to see that. Even if his injuries aren’t the thing that’s causing him to perform so badly, he should hang the gloves up and call time on his great career.



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