Miguel Cotto on Sergio Martinez

[Rantcatrat]

as for KKisser, umm you're judging Martinez for wanting catchweight fights when he's the one going down in weight and giving up that advantage, the only other fighter to ever call for catchweights in nearly everyone of his fights since moving up to welter has been Pacquiao, kinda hard not to mention him when he's the only fighter who is CONSTANTLY asking for them, Martinez is willing to shed 10 lbs. and he's damn well near 40 yrs old, and yet still everyone in his division (Sturm, Pirog, and everyone else at 160) is running scared from him, as well as most guys at 154 for example Cintron and Angulo, so you can't blame the guy for wanting a crack at 3 of the biggest names to have fought at 154 in the last 5 yrs being Cotto, Pacquiao, and Mayweather especially when he's willing to be the guy to give up his size advantage to fight all 3

who says i blame him? all i'm saying is if he wants to get any respect he should pick on fighters his own size or consider looking north of his division when calling them out, and that's when i mentioned hopkins which would also be a big money fight and would give him mad respect. maybe you haven't been seeing how much flack martinez's been getting from the media and the comment sections for calling out the significantly smaller guys for obviously just the financial reward that comes with it. he should call out fighters his own size or even bigger like what pacquiao did, or even mayweather when he was moving up in weight so as not get criticized that's all i'm sayin.

Here's the thing. Although I've read conflicting accounts of it, to Sampson Lefkowitz, and he's just a manager and clearly biased, but from what he says, Martinez just went up to middleweight to get bigger fights (pay days) and that in reality, he is a junior middleweight. If that's the case and there's more money at 154 fighting Cotto and Margarito than there is at 160, and the competition is better there, maybe it makes sense to drop back down to 154. If he makes weight safetly, then so be it. I don't see Mayweather/Cotto/Margarito as significantly smaller than Martinez at all. I actually see them all as around the same size. However, Darren Barker, Paul Williams and Kelly Pavlik actually seemed significantly bigger than Martinez.