Sergio Martinez – His career and next move still up in the air

martinez777425689By Cameron Gillon: Sergio Martinez had tests with his doctors last month to show whether his severe long-term knee injuries can handle boxing if he decides to carry on with the sport he has dominated for so long.

Martinez last fight was in June 2014 when he defended his WBC, Ring and Lineal titles against Miguel Cotto at Madison Square Garden, New York. Cotto came out sharp and Martinez wasn’t looking his self in the ring as Cotto put Martinez down three times in the first round and the fight looked like it wasn’t going to last more than a few more rounds. Martinez managed to recover and take the fight into the championship rounds before Martinez trainer decided he wasn’t going to win the fight and had nothing left to go for the knock-out on Cotto.

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

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.

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Sergio Martinez to meet with doctor on September 16th in New York

martinez906By Dan Ambrose: Former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (51-3-2, 28 KOs) has an appointment on September 16th with a doctor to have him exam him to see if he’s still fit to continue fighting, according to Dan Rafael.

Depending on how things go with the exam, Martinez, 39, could continue his career or possibly hang up the gloves. The area that is most concern it would seem is Martinez’s surgically repaired right knee. His knee look weak in his last fight against Miguel Cotto last June.

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Can Sergio Martinez turn his career around?

martinez566By Dan Ambrose: 39-year-old former two division world champion Sergio Martinez (51-3-2, 28 KOs) is coming off of his worst defeat of his career in losing to Miguel Cotto by a 10th round stoppage last June.

It was a real beat down for Martinez with him getting knocked down three times in the 1st round, receiving a count in round 9th, and stopped in the 10th by his corner. Martinez says he wants to continue fighting, and he plans on having a full medical exam in New York next month to make sure that there’s nothing that might physically get in the way of him continuing his career.

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Boxing upsets

cotto77By Rob Blakeman: Many articles on boxing upsets have been written and some of them over time have become diminished or exaggerated. In any case, inspired by the recent Cotto Martinez upset I decided I would list in no particular order, the greatest boxing upsets I have personally witnessed live that made me literally shake my head in open-mouthed awe!

1. Nigel Benn V Gerald McClellan. In the most savage fight ever seen in a British Ring Benn came back against seemingly insurmountable odds and stopped the ostensibly indestructible aptly named; ‘Mini Mike Tyson’ McClellan late in the fight.

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Cotto vs. Martinez brings in just 350K PPV buys

cotto674By Dan Ambrose: The results from this months’ HBO pay-per-view fight between former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (51-3-2, 28 KO’s) and Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32 KO’s) are in and they’re not good. According to Dan Rafael, the Cotto-Martinez fight brought in just 350,000 PPV buys on HBO, well below the projected 475,000 buys that it was estimated to pull in.

The fight still made a profit, but it was a slim one and not the cash windfall that the promoters of the event Bob Arum and Lou Dibella thought it would be. Arum blames the poor PPV results on fan fatigue from having to purchase too many PPV events. Arum feels that the Cotto vs. Martinez fight was merely a good one, and not a great one designed for PPV. Dibella, for his part, blames the low PPV figures on fans having competing interests with horse racing event at the Belmont Stakes and Los Angeles Kings vs. New York Rangers Stanley Cup finals taking place.

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Clearing up Cotto’s big victory over Martinez

cotto67777433333By Wepeeler: So I’ve let the dust settle from what was a monumental Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32 KO’s) win over WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (51-3-2, 28 KO’s) last Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, in New York. I had watched and read all the pre-fight hype, and I’ve followed all the post-fight action as well. There seems to be an overabundance of people claiming that Sergio knees were shot and that Cotto should have an asterisk next to his Middleweight championship. This is straight ridiculous.

First off, Sergio was the lineal middleweight champion. He beat the guy who beat the guy. And he BEAT guys down. He was often undersized and seemingly over-matched, but always came out victorious during a very impressive run that included Kelly Pavlik, Paul Williams, Sergey Dzinziruk, Dennis Barker, Matthew Macklin and big boy Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. He looked a bit rough in the Murray fight but look at the list of fighters he had just fought! Murray is a big strong ox, and Martinez still found a way to win. I say all this, because Martinez was the true lineal middleweight champ. Martinez vs. Gennady “GGG” Golovkin never happened, and although GGG owns part of the strap, he’s NOT the lineal middleweight champ.

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Sergio Martinez not likely to retire, says Lewkowicz

martinez666666By Dan Ambrose: Sampson Lewkowicz, the adviser former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (51-3-2, 28 KO’s), says that the 39-year-old Martinez likely won’t be retiring from the sport just yet following his 10th round stoppage loss to Miguel Cotto last Saturday night. Lewkowicz says that if Martinez does retire, it won’t be a sudden thing where he just stops completely following a loss. Instead he’ll have a farewell fight in front of his fans in Argentina before stepping away from boxing.

“Having been the best, he will want to make a farewell fight for his fans,” said Lewkowicz to Primera Hora. “If he is to continue, it will be to make a fight in Argentina. Sergio is smart, and he’ll have no problems doing other things.”

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Aftermath: Cotto vs. Martinez – A Perfect Storm

martinez6367By Jay McIntyre: The greatness of an individual has often been attributed to that person being either in eventful circumstances or having an event-making personality. But this is an oversimplification because true greatness often requires an alignment of both.

William Shakespeare’s manipulative Roman character, Cassius, once remarked to his would-be conspirator that “the fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are men.” When looking at what fighters are capable of accomplishing in the ring, sometimes their greatest achievements arise from the perfect combination of preparation and opportunity. A fighter can only rise so high on talent and guidance alone.

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Jeff Mayweather: Roach didn’t improve Cotto; Martinez wasn’t 100% for fight

martinez906By Chris Williams: Jeff Mayweather says that trainer Freddie Roach hasn’t made any real changes to Miguel Cotto at all, and that the reason why he beat WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez last Saturday night was more of a situation of Martinez not being 100% after coming off two knee surgeries and a long 14 month layoff rather than Cotto being a rejuvenated fighter because of Roach’s training.

“Everyone thought that Martinez would win based on him coming back [from the injuries] 100%, and obviously he didn’t,” Jeff said to Hustleboss.com.

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