DiBella: "Martinez is a fucking beast...and fuck Dimitry Pirog"

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

I gotta agree. Pirog has beat one guy, and jacobs was really only a prospect in the first place. Martinez would beat him easy at this point. Down the road who knows. Martinez really doesn't have anybody at 154 or 160 that is a threat to him. So i think that's where all the pirog, kirkland sillyness comes from.

I don't get it tbh. Kirkland leaves himself wide open. If he rushed Martinez like that he'd be on the losing end of a well timed left hand inside 4 rounds. Pirog has not earned the right to have a money fight like Martinez. He came in through the back door KOing an untested prospect. Cheers to him for winning a world title but he didn't beat a champion for it. If Sergio needs to he should go to Germany to fight Sturm. He sure won't come here.

Either does Kirkland though, who has he beat other than Vera?

Exactly. I'd see a Williams/Martinez III. I'd watch Martinez/Cotto. I'd watch Sturm/Martinez. Kirkland's fought like 1 fight in 2 years. Pirog and Kirkland have not earned the right to fight for the legitimate middleweight title in a big money fight... Hell, at least Dzinziruk had been a world champ for years.