By Robert Elmore: Sergio Martinez’s promoter Lou DiBella may be up to something. He might know something that only his inner circles know about a possible Sergio Martinez/Gennady Golovkin fight. He might understand that letting a fight of this magnitude simmer just a little longer before unleashing the phrase, the fight is on.
Then again, he might be stalling, buying time, while he moves in the background to avoid Golovkin while securing a cash out fight for his fighter Sergio Martinez. DiBella has stated numerous times that Gennady or Triple G does not bring in anything financially. Lou has point. Golovkin’s purse against Matthew Macklin was 350,000 dollars. He is certainly carving out space in the middleweight division. He’s a good fighter. He might be too good for his own good. Walking through opponents like he is might turn other promoters away. We might not ever see how good he really is or can become because others fighters like Peter Quillin and Daniel Geale might not ever give him a shot.
But it didn’t take long to happen what I thought was going to happen; happened. Triple G expressed in fighting WBC welter weight champ Floyd Mayweather and immediately the responses filled the boxing sites. One poster called Floyd a coward if he didn’t take the fight. Insane isn’t it? Here you have WBC champion Sergio Martinez in the same division as Triple G and somehow Sergio has been given a free pass for not facing the WBA champ.
It’s as if the fighters in higher weight classes (154 or 160) know that calling out Floyd will not only bring attention to themselves, but that the media will get behind them. Where is the all pressure on Sergio to fight the young lion?
However, Sergio continues his campaign to fight Floyd. But who can really blame him or Triple G for wanting to fight the cash cow of boxing? The financial rewards would be great for both middleweight fighters. But I ask, if Floyd is coward for not facing Triple G, then what is Sergio? Is Sergio a coward? A ducker? What? It’s unfair to call a welterweight a coward for not facing a middleweight, but give a free pass to a middleweight for not facing another middleweight. My point is not to discredit Martinez, but to point out the double standard in this scenario. It’s time for Sergio to step up and fight Triple G for middleweight supremacy. Stop chasing Floyd. And that’s to both Triple G and Martinez.
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