By Rick Reeno
Promoter Lou DiBella spoke with BoxingScene.com in the aftermath of Paul Williams vs Sergio Martinez at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. After twelve back and forth rounds, which saw the fighters trade knockdowns in the very first, Williams won a majority decision.
Martinez, the reigning WBC junior middleweight champion, showed the entire boxing community that he is one of the best in the business by moving up to middleweight and taking Williams to the limit.
Sources told BoxingScene that Don King, promoter of IBF champion Cory Spinks, already reached out to DiBella. There has been some talk that Spinks could be paired with WBC 140-pound champion Devon Alexander on a March HBO date.
"We would love to get Spinks in March. My guy showed everyone tonight that he can fight his ass off and proved that he is one of the best fighters in the world. Paul Williams told me after the fight that Martinez is the best guy that he ever fought. I think Martinez could clean out the junior middleweight division. Margarito is another guy we want. We would love to get Margarito next year," DiBella told BoxingScene.com.
Margarito returns from his infamous one-year suspension in the first quarter of 2010. He stopped Martinez within seven rounds nearly a decade ago. During the summer, Margarito expressed some interest in moving up to 154-pounds to fight Martinez in a rematch.
After the kind of performance that Martinez pulled off in the Williams fight, I don't see Margarito running to take this rematch any time soon. There has been some talk that Martinez could end up staying at middleweight if a significant fight is not secured at 154. DiBella and Williams' promoter Dan Goossen spoke briefly about the possibility of Williams-Martinez rematch but it's not something that would happen in the immediate future.
