By Rick Reeno

BoxingScene.com checked in with George Peterson, manager/trainer of Paul "The Punisher" Williams, to discuss the available options for Williams' next fight. On Saturday at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, Williams won a four round technical split decision over Kermit Cintron. After three months of training camp, Peterson is not happy with the way the Cintron fight ended.

During a clinch, both fighters fell when Williams swung to the side to throw a hook. Williams fell on the canvas and Cintron went through the ropes and fell out of the ring. The wind got knocked out of Cintron during the fall. Fearing that he might be injured, the ringside physican stopped the fight and would not allow Cintron to fight.

Peterson is not so easily convinced that Cintron was willing to continue fighting. Williams-Cintron was previously scheduled to happen in 2008. Before they could ever step in the ring, Cintron suffered a hand injury in a November 2007 tune-up against Jesse Feliciano. In a strange scene, Cintron stopped Feliciano in the tenth, but then collapsed while holding his hand a few moments after the referee waved off the fight. Saturday's outcome opened up some old wounds because Peterson was convinced back then that Cintron was looking for a way to avoid his fighter, and he felt something out of the ordinary would happen again.

"Even before this, I knew something was going to happen with this guy. When he fought Jesse Feliciano, he won the fight and then realized that he had to fight Paul Williams and you saw what happened. He's a nice guy and I think he's going to come back from this, but he didn't want to fight Paul," Peterson said to BoxingScene.com.

With Cintron out of the way, the fight Peterson would like to get is against WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao. Peterson tells BoxingScene his fighter can make the weight easy. Besides the weight, Peterson and Williams are not concerned with any clause for Olympic-style drug testing. They will take a fight with Pacquiao under the rules of the governing commission.

"Paul was 152 [at the weigh-in for Cintron] and that was after eating breakfast in the morning. He weighed 152 after eating breakfast. Pacquiao can have the entire pharmacy, we'll take that fight," Peterson said.

A fight with Pacquiao is a long shot. A rematch with Sergio Martinez is possible. They would like to return to welterweight, but if the right fight comes along, they will remain at junior middleweight or move back up to middleweight.

"We'll fight anybody from 147 to 160-pounds. We don't care who it is. Paul is good like that. He'll fight anybody from 147 to 160," Peterson said.