By Reynaldo Sánchez: Gabriel Sarmiento is a guy with a character that could we call irritably. He’s a man with slightly conventional manners, perhaps even roughly, but I think that it’s something very particular and foreseeable in someone who works with fighters.
Last night, I call him to congratulate it on the award to the best boxer of 2010 reached by Sergio Martinez, also, to express my solidarity and credit to his work during the last year. This time didn’t reach him, in spite of that. I preserve my opinion about his merits as trainer.
“I’m not disturbed to haven’t obtained the award as trainer of 2010 this time, I know the website and writers who really are who have provided me his support, and of course it’s important for me” told me Sarmiento.
“I admit my desire to get this award, but I didn’t worry about this, my interest was that Sergio Martinez was obtaining the award as boxer of the year.” My target assures Sarmiento, it’s to turn Sergio into the best P4P in 2011.
Recently, I wrote an article where I expressed my discrepancy with the method of these elections, proposed a more impartial system where more writers take a piece. I think that a formula perhaps more accurate, it would be that The Boxing Writers American Association (BWAA) and the most recognized websites of every continent make a public poll between his writers, with deadline of December 31 of every year. And those results reveal who was the winner. With the current technology it’s very easy to do this. This result, it would be close to the reality; a fantasy of course.
The perspectives in 2011, show that, if “Maravilla“ Martínez keeps on fighting against similar rival as those he faced in 2010, the Argentinean will repeat his exploit and possibly Sarmiento can also, achieve the credit as trainer of the year.
Freddie Roach has advantage because he has more fighters, Pacquiao and Khan will give him in 2011 some victories. Also, Chavez Jr and Martirosyan looking for world titles fights; It’s a very hard work for the Argentine duo to conquer more than they reached this year.
The prestige that grants an award like that’s for the trainer’s produces an increase in the number of boxer’s in his stable. In an occasion, Sarmiento sentenced that he has an enormous problem with this. “I am a trainer who always is on the side of my fighters, this of me don’t like some manager and promoters” this reason, and his irascible character they remove his possibilities. Nevertheless, we must recognize the excellent work that he does with Sergio Martinez.
Pacquiao and Roach do not believe that they repeat in 2011. His questioned fight against Mosley locates it in a difficult position from the beginning, after Mosley, only remains Floyd Mayweather; I think that it will turn out to be difficult to do this fight in 2011. If Khan and Chavez Jr are capable to conquer strong rivals, inevitably Roach will continue his way to the Hall of Fame, if they turnout to be defeated, and Martínez to conclude 2011 without defeats, with complete certainty the Argentine couple will be strong contenders to achieve an exploit without
precedents in the Argentinean boxing.
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