Dammit Pacquiao and Martinez @154 would be epic since Mayweather has no balls. But were getting Pacquiao Marquez 3 at 144. Im sure Pacquiao will send Marquez to where De La Hoya, Hatton and possibly Margarito went. I think Martinez is the only option left afterwards.
Sergio Martinez is hiding from WBO middleweight champion Dmitry Pirog.
@bigragu Martinez had the chance to defend the 154 lbs title but vacated it for a shot to the MW title. Fight other jr MW fighters and Pacquaio will be forced to fight him. All Martinez is presenting are hypotheticals - coz he is not a jr MW fighter at this time. Sergio wants to fight Pacqauio only for the P4P title. It's his sneeky way of trying to get his dream fortune fast. Also, Sergio is bound to vacate the MW title if he doesnt defend it in one year. He's in a dilemma. Too late for him.
@toxicbytes The title was for the Light Middleweight Championship of the World. It's a 154lb title. Manny is taking credit for holding a title in that division and Martinez fights in that one so why not?
@bigragu Not really. 154 lbs is weigh in requirement for super welterweight or light middleweight. Pacquaio never fought on those weight classes in any of the boxing councils. If Martinez wants to challenge Pacquaio, he has to beat Pacquaio at his weight class which is 147 lbs welterweight class If Pacquaio challenges Martinez, Manny has to meet Martinez at his weight class. But that's not the case. Sergio is not in a position to demand anything.
@toxicbytes True, but he fought for a 154 title. I would put more into that than if he just fought a 154 guy. If you're going to accept the accolades of being an 8 division champ, fight the champ in that division.
@bigragu btw, Pacquaio never weighed in at 154 lbs in any of his fights.
@bigragu If Sergio Martinez keeps on dissing Pacquaio in public even before a fight has been agreed, Martinez may never have the chance to fight Pacquaio. I will tell you insults may not go very well with the Pacquaio camp. Bobby Arum gave Golden Boy Promotions a really good lesson on gossip and dissing. Arum will never give Golden Boy any piece of a fight that Top Rank promotes just because Golden Boy defamed Pacquaio. Mosley had to quit Golden Boy just to get the fight with Pacquaio.
ka-ching ka-ching. Mosley lost to Pacquaio.
@bigragu I'm not even being technical. The whole idea about fighting a bigger fighter has been with us since David and Goliath. Sergio is a middleweight champion. Isn't the bigger fighter a heavy-weight? Show bravery by beating a bigger fighter. Pacquaio makes big money today coz he gambled on beating bigger fighters. What did Sergio invest in to deserve the kind of money Pacquaio makes. Sergio is just a attention grabbing boxer who dreams of big pay by taking a short cut.
@dbhoy786786 last I checked the fight went in his favor.
@toxicbytes If you want to get technical, Pacquiao won his last title (154) because Martinez was stripped of it. If you give Manny credit for being a champ at 154 then let him fight Martinez at 154. Martinez has never fought at HW but both him and Manny have fought at 154 and BOTH were/are champs at 154. Sounds fair to me.
@TheGILBERTnetwork Anyways, Pacquaio fights higher weight boxers. What does Martinez do? He calls out lower weight class fighters.
Really classy Sergio. You make no more $1 million per fight and you call out a fighter in the lower weight class who makes $20 million per fight. It only makes you a greedy boxer and not courageous one.
I want to see Martinez, the middleweight champion, call out Wladimir Klitschko, the heavyweight champion. That's a classier way of doing a call out.
@101loop1 martinez can also be the best p4p fighter if he calls out the heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitscho and wins. he should try what pacquaio, go up a weight class and beat the big guys.
@TheGILBERTnetwork lol or looked really bad.. like mosley and margarito... i hope mosley punches his head off... i like pacquiao, i dont think its his fault... i just wanna see arums cash cow milked dry.
It's funny how the Pactards are fast to defend Manny when the advantages are not all his favor. The truth is Pac has fought guys coming of a bad losses. Yeah he fights the big names but the big names are not always the best fighters around.
Hopkins beat Trinidad and DLH and no one has ever questioned that. Hopkins was middleweight who had defended his belt like 20 times or so.
In this case Martinez moved up to middleweight and just happen to win the title there
@gus360ok - Kirkland? what has he done? Berto is the same size as Pacquiao so why not Pacquiao?
@seckzmachine - Lately Pac only fights guys who have lost the fight before
@bigragu - Size is a non issue. It's that Martinez is on fire and would have the best set of skills that either Mayweather or Pacq would have faced in a while. The man wants to be best p4p and he has to call out 2 Smaller guys, that are right above him in most p4p ranking. Him calling out Donaire would be dumb. Calling out Pac and MM is fine since they both have won 154 titles before. Hopkins did it and everyone kisses his ass. So why not?
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Lukáš Konečný could do well against Martinez IMO. Maybe not as skilled but extremely tough guy that would stay there in the ring trying kayo Martinez whole 12 rounds. One of his typical style matches here: (despite of crappy comment, he broke the opponent several ribs, as he had done many times before):
@101loop1 Martinez would have to drop to 147 for them to even consider getting a shot.
martinez is going for p4p its only logical he calls out the current ones pbf ,pacman this guys have fought near or at his weight.
listen you have your opinion.....leave it at that oh p.s floyd is 41 an 1....first castillo fight.
@dbhoy786786 whoa whoa... pac is the king of fighting guys past their prime....morales, and he lost to him after morales was in some brutal wars...barrera was also over the hill. i guess de la hoya was at his best?? floyd called mosley and DLH out when they were in their prime but it was too much of a dangerous fight for them...and floyd also took on mosley after he KOed margarito, something pac couldnt do, they wanted no part of mosley after the cheato fight. dont blame FMJ for boxing politics.
