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By Jake Donovan - One division’s gain is another’s loss.
With Sergio Martinez’ middleweight title winning effort over Kelly Pavlik last weekend comes yet another hit to a junior middleweight division long in need of both leadership and identity.
Oddly enough, its top two fighters for the past year and change – Martinez and Paul Williams – have previously met at middleweight. Chances are, they could once again fight six pounds above where there is a greater demand for a void to be filled.
As distraught as middleweight has been in recent years, a lineal champion has always remained. Not the case one division below, which has lacked a true king since Winky Wright vacated the crown in 2005.
The absence of leadership could be forgiven if there was an identifiable figure drawing interest to the division. That such is not the case only piles on to the problems facing a division that once upon a time served as a money pit but in recent years has become a wasteland.
But all of that is about to change.
The next seven weekends will bear witness to four bouts which boast major significance to the junior middleweight division, beginning with this weekend’s televised co-feature on HBO. [Click Here To Read More]
With Sergio Martinez’ middleweight title winning effort over Kelly Pavlik last weekend comes yet another hit to a junior middleweight division long in need of both leadership and identity.
Oddly enough, its top two fighters for the past year and change – Martinez and Paul Williams – have previously met at middleweight. Chances are, they could once again fight six pounds above where there is a greater demand for a void to be filled.
As distraught as middleweight has been in recent years, a lineal champion has always remained. Not the case one division below, which has lacked a true king since Winky Wright vacated the crown in 2005.
The absence of leadership could be forgiven if there was an identifiable figure drawing interest to the division. That such is not the case only piles on to the problems facing a division that once upon a time served as a money pit but in recent years has become a wasteland.
But all of that is about to change.
The next seven weekends will bear witness to four bouts which boast major significance to the junior middleweight division, beginning with this weekend’s televised co-feature on HBO. [Click Here To Read More]
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