Comments Thread For: Sergio Martinez at 166-pounds at Seven-Day Weigh-in

[Phenom]

Martinez is going to be drained this fight should be in December since the contract was agreed on almost on October

[MARKBNLV]

8 pds in a week is nothing i have seen guys cut 15 pds in 2 days.

[AndyShitHot]

I'm a big fan of Sergio Martinez but:

a) why did he allow himself to get so heavy.
b) why did he agree to fight at 158 when he is the middleweight champion of the world and knows Paul Williams can easily make 154, this fight should have been at 160, i'm stick of ****** catchweight fights but Martinez only has himself to blame.

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

whatever happen to mr i can fight from 147 to 160. what a clown i hope sergio knocks him out. i would have never agreed to defend my title below the limit even if i could make it easy

Wait so you're telling me 158 is not between 147-160?


Goodness.

[Bastian Loc]

Yeah, for a MW fighter that's not so much at all. However, for a career JMW who's only just moved to 160 that's not so good. Especially as his style revolves around quickness, the legs and stamina needed for such a style.

He'll need it all the more against the freak stamina of Williams too. I have a feeling his Pavlik success and the recognition he finally got has maybe made him a little lax. It always happens. You stick to the same routine you always have but the same fire and passion has gone just that little bit from your training because you have achieved what you set out to do and so weight etc just comes off a little slower and things are just that little bit harder.

Hmmm, interesting. Something I'm finding more and more weird with today's game is the pettiness of fighters and managers. These guys fought at 160 and Williams won. he's already fought him at the MW limit and beat him. Now this for the lineal MW title and he refuses to do it at the MW limit? What the hell is with that? It's pathetic and looks like he doesn't want it somehow and needs all the little advantages he can get. ****....You know, this type of thing is going to become more and more a part of boxing to the point that every name fighter will be be getting their way on all the ****** little negotiating points that gives them the slightest advantage.

More and more titles in more and more divisions will keep getting won and yet they'll always mean less and less.

They fought at 154 the first time around.

[ny123]

They fought at 154 the first time around.

No i think it was at 160

[Bastian Loc]

No i think it was at 160

I thought Pavlik was his first fight at 160.

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

Naw the first fight was at 160.

But how can people act like Martinez being lazy is somehow his fault.

[Drunk Punch]

Why does (6ft 4in) Williams even need a catchweight?

[mathed]

Naw the first fight was at 160.

But how can people act like Martinez being lazy is somehow his fault.

Dude isn't being lazy, he is being strategically intelligent. He knew how much damage he did thelast time and felt that had he been a tad heavier, his power may have dropped Williams several more times that night.

He drops weight easily as he has informed the press and losing 10-13 pounds over the period of a month or so is not a big deal for someone who can do it and has done it like Martinez. He comes in needing to lose 8 or 9 pounds the day of the weigh in, so he loses the WATER WEIGHT. That night he rehydrates to 167 or 168 and goes in to the ring with a 10 pound weight advantage over Williams.