By Rick Reeno
BoxingScene.com was advised by Freddie Roach, trainer of WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, that a fight with Sergio Martinez is only possible at the welterweight limit of 147-pounds. Martinez, the WBC middleweight champion, can squeeze down to around 154-155-pounds at most. Making 147-pounds would be impossible. Martinez has always taken the position that "the Pacquiao fight won't happen because he's too small."
"I was asked about what I thought was the most attractive fight out there, and I said [Floyd] Mayweather, and the second was Martinez if he can make 147," Roach told BoxingScene.com.
When I advised Roach that there was no possible way that Martinez could physically make 147 - he replied - "then it won't happen."
