And NEW Middleweight Champion of the world...

[Master]

Shouldn't Williams be the new champion, he earned the right and would have beaten this Pavlik.

[Hulk]

Shouldn't Williams be the new champion, he earned the right and would have beaten this Pavlik.

I disagree.

Williams lost to Martinez and got the gift decision.

Williams is much easier to hit than Martinez, and a bit chinny IMO.

It is unfair to Martinez to just assume that Williams could have done what he did last night.

[p4pking]

Shouldn't Williams be the new champion, he earned the right and would have beaten this Pavlik.

I disagree.

Williams lost to Martinez and got the gift decision.

Williams is much easier to hit than Martinez, and a bit chinny IMO.

It is unfair to Martinez to just assume that Williams could have done what he did last night.

I think your bang on there. Williams and Martinez fought neck and neck almost the whole way through, but I thought Martinez pulled it out by a round or two quite clearly in the end, although calling it a gift is a stretch. Either way, Martinez has now fought Williams and Pavlik back to back without ever being in real trouble. Williams got clocked badly in the 1st by Sergio and was damn lucky it was the end of that round, he was also getting tagged all the way through. There's no question Pavlik hits harder than either of the two, you'd have to give him a much better shot at stopping Williams, who incidently doesn't move nearly as well as Martinez and is easier to hit.