By Dan Ambrose: Paul Williams (39-1, 27 KO’s) and WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (45-2-2, 24 KO’s) will be facing each other in a rematch on Saturday night at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This is a rematch that HBO wanted, and it seems rather premature given that both fighters have only fought once other bout each since they last fought. However, neither of them were able to get any high profile fighters like Shane Mosley, Floyd Mayweather Jr. or Manny Pacquiao to fight them, so they’ve kind of fell back into this fight for lack of anyone else to fight.

The bout has received very little publicity and it’s still hardly being talked about despite the fight only days away. That tells you that this isn’t the fight that these guys need. It’s too bad HBO really wanted this fight, because it seems like they’re going over old ground in this fight when they need to be branching out and looking for different opponents like Dmitriy Pirog, Gennady Golovkin and Felix Sturm, to name just a few fighters.

Last time out, Williams won a controversial 12 round majority decision. He threw more punches and won by landing the most shots, but Martinez looked like the sharper fighter and landed the harder blows. Both fighters hit the deck in the opening round. After that, the fight fell into a pattern where Williams would follow Martinez round trying to land a lot of punches and Martinez would tag him with single hard shots that really got the crowd into it.

Towards the end of the fight, Martinez faded and looked tired. Williams kept punching until the end but he had zero power on his shots. It was a good fight, but not interesting enough to warrant a rematch this soon. Neither of these guys have built up a huge fan base and they need to take on popular fighters to do that, not each other.

This is probably going to be another frustrating fight for the judges to score, and I can see it making fans from one side angry in the end. It’s going to come down the same situation as last time – Do the judges score Martinez’s cleaner blows or do they focus on Williams’ volume punching?

Hopefully, this is the last time these guys fight each other because I don’t like seeing rematches so soon, especially when both fighters are still struggling to build a fan base. I see this as a fight doesn’t help either of them progress. It’s a waste of time.