Thread: Martinez wants Floyd Mayweather

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Kinda feel sorry for the guy, his story illustrates the problems with boxing nowadays.I hope someone fights him, mayweather would be great but is a long way down to drop weight wise.Sturm, Chavez Jr, Pirog, would make sense at middle or does anyone think Sergio can move up to Super Middle and mix it with Froch, Ward or Bute?

Floyd vs Martinez at 154 would be a great matchup. Floyd beats Manny easily imo, Martinez, I'm not sure. It's a tough fight for both men.

If Sergio really feels moving down is too difficult however then he needs to move up and challenge Bute, Ward, Froch, Hopkins et al. If he thinks he's too small to fight B Hop at 170 then don't bitch at Manny for not fighting him at 150.

His hypocrisy annoys me.

If Martinez fights Manny at 150 and Manny is a welterweight at 147 then Manny only needs to gain 3 pounds and Sergio has to lose 10. Hopkins at 170 means a 10 pound shift up for Martinez and a 5 pound drop for Bernard from Light-Heavy. In both scenarios they are catchweight fights outside of a recognised division and as such suck, but Martinez a hypocrite? i dont think he is. He wants to fight and i congratulate him on facing Barker who gave him a few problems but Macklin who is calling him out brings nothing to the table, unlike Sturm and Pirog who both seem to be avoiding him and then the WBO take his belt as do the WBC. I think he should fight Chavez Jr and get his WBC belt back but i bet that fight won't happen.

I don't think Martinez will get the big money fight with Mayweather as he's bigger and a big risk. His best option would be to fight at super middle but I think those guys are bigger than him but no one else is willing to fight him.

Martinez is massive and hits very hard

id like to see the fight

I think he should get involved in the 168 mix cos no way would manny or Floyd want any of Martinez! I would love to see him clear up the 160 weight class and move up and fight the top ranked fighter at 168 a bit further down the line weather that be Froch, Bute or Ward. Some excting fights at 168 are going to be made, I can't wait.

Sergio needs to carry on what he is doing and beating the fighters like JCC Jnr, even Cotto/Marg and the money fights will come.

Martinez should target the Cotto/ Margarito winner, then fights with Mayweather or Chavez Jr may become available. Failing that he's going to have to tread water against the likes of Pirog or Quillen until a big fight materialises. I don't think he should step up to 168 just yet

I think Martinez is expecting guys Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather who walking around 20-30 pounds lighter than him to fight him. When he could easily establish his legacy against guys a little bigger than him at 168. He isn't that much smaller than them, and he would probably dealing with guys closer to his size than Floyd or Manny do at welterweight.

I honeslty still would pick either one of them to beat him more often than not. The mistakes he makes are too many and too big against guys this good. He would obviously have a better chance against the less defensive savy Pacquiao, but he makes so many errors, and the way he was in trouble in his last fight against a guy who just didn't open up really showed me how overrated he is. Roach isn't talking out of his ass when he is saying Martinez is simply a great athlete, but not a great fighter.

Originally Posted by Taeth

I think Martinez is expecting guys Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather who walking around 20-30 pounds lighter than him to fight him. When he could easily establish his legacy against guys a little bigger than him at 168. He isn't that much smaller than them, and he would probably dealing with guys closer to his size than Floyd or Manny do at welterweight.

I honeslty still would pick either one of them to beat him more often than not. The mistakes he makes are too many and too big against guys this good. He would obviously have a better chance against the less defensive savy Pacquiao, but he makes so many errors, and the way he was in trouble in his last fight against a guy who just didn't open up really showed me how overrated he is. Roach isn't talking out of his ass when he is saying Martinez is simply a great athlete, but not a great fighter.

"The way he was in trouble" sergio didn't look spectacular but at no point in the fight was he in anything that can be described as in trouble.

Originally Posted by Galaxy

Martinez should target the Cotto/ Margarito winner, then fights with Mayweather or Chavez Jr may become available. Failing that he's going to have to tread water against the likes of Pirog or Quillen until a big fight materialises. I don't think he should step up to 168 just yet

Shame that the lineal champ has to fight one of the shot fighters in order to get a chance at JCC jr

JCC Jnr looked poor against Manfredo and Sergio would rip him a part if Sulliman lets him in with his pet toy.

Originally Posted by armin

Originally Posted by Taeth

I think Martinez is expecting guys Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather who walking around 20-30 pounds lighter than him to fight him. When he could easily establish his legacy against guys a little bigger than him at 168. He isn't that much smaller than them, and he would probably dealing with guys closer to his size than Floyd or Manny do at welterweight.

I honeslty still would pick either one of them to beat him more often than not. The mistakes he makes are too many and too big against guys this good. He would obviously have a better chance against the less defensive savy Pacquiao, but he makes so many errors, and the way he was in trouble in his last fight against a guy who just didn't open up really showed me how overrated he is. Roach isn't talking out of his ass when he is saying Martinez is simply a great athlete, but not a great fighter.

"The way he was in trouble" sergio didn't look spectacular but at no point in the fight was he in anything that can be described as in trouble.

He was in trouble tactically, not physically. There were times where he was lined so badly he couldn't get off or get out of the way of Baker's punches.

Originally Posted by Taeth

Originally Posted by armin

Originally Posted by Taeth

I think Martinez is expecting guys Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather who walking around 20-30 pounds lighter than him to fight him. When he could easily establish his legacy against guys a little bigger than him at 168. He isn't that much smaller than them, and he would probably dealing with guys closer to his size than Floyd or Manny do at welterweight.

I honeslty still would pick either one of them to beat him more often than not. The mistakes he makes are too many and too big against guys this good. He would obviously have a better chance against the less defensive savy Pacquiao, but he makes so many errors, and the way he was in trouble in his last fight against a guy who just didn't open up really showed me how overrated he is. Roach isn't talking out of his ass when he is saying Martinez is simply a great athlete, but not a great fighter.

"The way he was in trouble" sergio didn't look spectacular but at no point in the fight was he in anything that can be described as in trouble.

He was in trouble tactically, not physically. There were times where he was lined so badly he couldn't get off or get out of the way of Baker's punches.

don't see how he was in trouble tactically when he was dominating his opponent, Barker made him work more and put up a less than stellar showing but Martinez was winning the fight by a landslide, at the very most Barker won like 2 rounds and Martinez still landed the stronger cleaner punches

Originally Posted by MMASUX

Originally Posted by Galaxy

Martinez should target the Cotto/ Margarito winner, then fights with Mayweather or Chavez Jr may become available. Failing that he's going to have to tread water against the likes of Pirog or Quillen until a big fight materialises. I don't think he should step up to 168 just yet

Shame that the lineal champ has to fight one of the shot fighters in order to get a chance at JCC jr

It's not a matter of Martinez getting a chance at Chavez Jr, just that Chavez isn't ready & I don't see him taking that sort of fight for awhile, the same with Alvarez. I feel the Cotto/ Marg winner would be one of the bigger names & money makers for Martinez without him having to move to 168