Comments Thread For: Williams Tops Martinez In Latest Fight Of The Year Entry

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By Jake Donovan - It is often suggested at the top level to accept no substitutes.

Whoever coined that phrase might want to reconsider after watching Paul Williams and Sergio Martinez wage war for 12 non-stop rounds in a late entry for 2009 Fight of the Year.

By nights end, it was the multi-divisional contender Williams prevailing by majority decision in the HBO-televised main event, which aired live from Bally’s in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Williams weighed in at 157 lb; Martinez, a late substitute for oft-injured middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik, came in at a career high 159 for the middleweight non-title fight.

Though there’s only less than a month remaining in 2009, it’s never too late to submit entries for year-end categories. Mark down the opening frame as a contender for Round of the Year to add to its potential Fight of the Year credentials.

Martinez landed the first significant punch of the fight, a straight left less than a minute in. Williams wasted little time in responding, catching his fellow southpaw with a left hand behind the ear to score a flash knockdown. Martinez was up on his feet early in the count, offering a wink and a smile towards ringside to let his people know he was fine. [Click Here To Read More]

[SERVILEV]

another dirty lack of knowledge judge

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They should really do interviews or a better good of matching fighter styles with the right style of judges!! Theres no way 119-110..as the world could clearly see. Im sick and tired of seeing fighters being robbed. At the least this fight should have been a draw OR more swaying to Martinez. A boxer that can adapt and change then effectively deliver. is the better boxer and the winner of a close fight. Compared to a fighter like PW, whom continues the same attack mode pace. ALSO IMO the Jones/Green fight was BS aswell. That fight was stopped Tooo Soon. I say rematch that fight aswell in America
FL. and Jones whoops Greens **S.

[GameBullDawg]

Martinez was ROBBED !!!!!!!!!!

[JakeNDaBox]

Martinez was ROBBED !!!!!!!!!!

If all three cards were along the lines of "that one," then I'd agree that Sergio was never given a fair shake. A majority decison was a proper call. A case could be made for either guy

[Pullcounter]

this fight can't be FOTY... its tainted because of the robbery

[Access_Denied]

MOST DUCKED FIGHTER ???????? LMAO What a year of boxing: rob, rob,fraud, hypes,Cheaters, not making weight and ****ting on your face, Hypes, Catchweight ( no disrepect do PAC it aint his fault he's a little bad mutha ) rob, rob,Cheaters, heartless bitches & did I mention ROBS???? Ok Martinez was a D fighter???? Paul an A class ????? But Paul got schooled even sweeter than Quintana ( and he wanted a piece of MAYWEATHER? ) and this rob has pissed me off more than any this year ( even more than the DRAW with Lame ass Cintron ) if judges just went by percentage it would make more sense, what a year!!!!!!!!!! A LATE REPLACEMENT II BITCHES, Judges and Ref's = **** and what pisses me off is that they get paid !!!!! ( in this economy ) FUC!!!!! Sry got high blood Pressure...

[lcheezy]

floyd money mayweather jr. the real p4p king

[t.boone.pickenz]

pinoys are screamin robbery now

[Iceta]

For one thing, a part of me would love to see a rematch. But my god, I don't think either fighter is gonna be the same after tonight. If things went perfectly, they both would get a big money fight against someone else and then they would fight a rematch after that. I'm a fan of Paul Williams and a new fan of Sergio Martinez and I expect the fighters I'm a fan of to fight rematches in controversial fights. But look at how many times Israel Vasquez and Rafael Marquez are having to fight each other to reap financial benefits. I say that one of these fighters should have to step up to the plate like Cotto. Yeah, I said it. These guys took damage too, and Cotto needs to beat a champion for their belt for one time in his career.

Or even an Angulo fight would be good against either one of these guys. Angulo would probably get schooled, but he would keep coming and put up a fight.

[dnut17]

After this fight Martinez>Williams>Pavlik>than any other fighters at 154 or 160. Please lets get Martinez a big fight this desicion was B.S. Williams is very good but Martinez has crazy skills. I had it 116-112 Martinez. PWill has a good chin I think he might knock out Pavlik, Pwill has holes in his defense but Pavlik doesn't have the skills to expose them. How bout we have Martinez put Cotto out of his misery or at 154. I'd like to see him beat Margarito, or how about Martinez v. Mosley in April badass fight.