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By Bill Emes Lou DiBella has fired back at HBO's veteran broadcaster Larry Merchant. In an earlier article on BoxingScene.com, Merchant told the website's Chris Robinson, that middleweight king Sergio Martinez should stop continuously chasing fights with boxers like Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Floyd Mayweather Jr. - and instead to do something great by moving up to 168-pounds to challenge super middleweight champions Andre Ward and Lucian Bute. DiBella, who promotes Martinez, believes HBO is protecting some of the fighters that Martinez is trying to secure. He won't match Martinez against Bute and Ward, who DiBella says are physically much larger than Martinez. "The guy ate steak and potatoes all week and weighed 157. He came into the week weighing 154 and he could have weighed 154 in the ring [against Matthew Macklin]. I don't want to listen to HBO commentators talk about Bute and Ward, it's horsesh*t. Why [should he fight them], so they can continue protecting certain guys who have the leverage because they are being promoted by the same guys who promote Mayweather and Pacquiao? F*** that!," DiBella shouted off. "Larry is running around saying that great fighters move up in weight. Well f***, the motherf***er is not a 160-pounder, he already moved up weight. The guy ate a full meal every day this week and he weighed in at 157 and I have to listen to a network that is protecting certain guys, telling me to fight Bute and Ward who walk around 25 to 35-pounds heavier than [Martinez]." Tags: Larry Merchant  , Sergio Martinez , Lou DiBella |
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comment by GRUSTLER, on 03-19-2012 |
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[QUOTE=HeroBando]How's this? He might be the best right now if he fought there, but it's not like he proved much at 154 beyond the ability to knock Cintron out and then backpedal the rest of the rounds away. He won an interim belt against Bunema, had 1 defense, got promoted, moved up. Never def... |
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comment by fceeviper, on 03-19-2012 |
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[QUOTE=BIGPOPPAPUMP]Lou DiBella has fired back at HBO's veteran broadcaster Larry Merchant. In an earlier article on BoxingScene.com, Merchant told the website's Chris Robinson, that middleweight king Sergio Martinez should stop continuously chasing fights with boxers like Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. ... |
| DiBella doing a terrible job promoting martinez
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comment by Scrubber, on 03-19-2012 |
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DiBella is doing terrible with martinez. Martinez should drop crazy Lou and go to Top Rand or GBP. Duh???? Dibella is a small time carnival operator. |
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comment by iniduoh, on 03-19-2012 |
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Why do some of the posters here think that walking around weight = fighting weight? I mean, use some common sense. RA-Box explained it perfectly by stated that Hatton walks around as a HW. So did that mean that Hatton could have been competitive at HW? of course not. |
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comment by RedSmurf, on 03-19-2012 |
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[QUOTE=Lac'em up]Martinez proved to the world that he is just average. What did he do in his last fight that was so great? It took him a long time to stop a guy with no power. He does not deserve a fight with the likes of Pacman and Mayweather. I just dont think the guy is all that good.[/QUOTE]
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