By Rick Reeno

Pablo Sarmiento, trainer of WBC Diamond middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (47-2-2, 26KOs), advised BoxingScene.com that his boxer is not going to pursue fights at 168-pounds. He tells BoxingScene that Martinez is a blown-up welterweight who can still make the junior middleweight limit of 154-pounds with ease. 

Martinez would like to drop down to fight WBA champion Miguel Cotto, who fights Antonio Margarito in a fall rematch. Martinez will defend his title against Darren Barker on October 1.

There are some lucrative opportunties at 168, like Lucian Bute, Carl Froch, Mikkel Kessler and Andre Ward, but Sarmiento says the weight is a little too heavy for his boxer. The two opponents that Martinez wants the most, are still Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. 

If that fight is available, with Cotto, Sergio has no problem making 154-pounds. There are no problems getting down to that weight. I don't think Sergio is looking at 168, because he's really a fighter at 147. That's really his weight and he's just a blown-up welterweight. 168 would be a little too heavy for him," Sarmiento said to BoxingScene.com.