What next for Martinez?

[Rantcatrat]

Assuming Martinez eeks past his tough assignment this weekend against Dzinziruk, where is he going to go from here?

Is he going to keep taking high risk/low reward fights?

These are the guys he could possibly get in the ring with

Middleweights:
Sturm(I just mentioned him because he's one of the best in the world but won't leave Germany)
Geale(won't leave Australia)
Pirog(not enough experience)
Sylvester(won't leave Germany)
Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam(who?)
Manfredo(doesn't deserve the shot and is past it if he was ever AT it)
JCC Jr.(won't be ready for this until he's closer to 100 fights )
Lee (good boxer- not better than Martinez)

Jr Middles:
Cotto(Too small. Too many miles on him at this point)
Angulo(A clinic waiting to happen)
Williams(A third fight? Could be interesting)
Cintron(He already beat him twice in one night )
Margarito (Avenge his first lose?)

Where will Martinez go after this?

Out of the options Sturm makes the most sense. It would be a middleweight unification fight and the biggest middleweight fight since Pavlik v. Taylor or Taylor v. Hopkins, not counting Dzinziruk v. Martinez, of course. Sturm sells in Germany, maybe Martinez could go there.

As someone said, Cotto is set to fight Margarito, but if that wasn't happening for some reason, and Cotto looks good this weekend, a fight with Cotto would be a big-time event, and I believe Martinez has earned that right. It doesn't bother me that Cotto looks a little past it because Martinez has had such a commendable list of recent opponents.

Of course, what if Lee looks good on the undercard this weekend beating McEwan? That would be an easy stay-busy fight although it doesn't do anything for me in terms of challenge.

Isn't funny that HBO will buy Zbik-Chavez Jr., but it wouldn't buy Zbik v. Martinez?