Why did it take Sergio Martinez so long to get back on track after Margarito?

I remember him beating a couple of decent British Light Middles back in the day. Do you think Antonio Margarito used dodgy wraps during their fight? The biggest thing that stands out to me when I watch that fight is margarito's speed. Apparently he wasnt always a slow sack of ****.

He went undefeated during that time.......if HBO or Showtime don't give you a shot, you are considered just another "eurobum" Once he got that HBO shot, he kept on trucking. *speaking in terms of his next shot at fighting on HBO of course. That is true. After Winky "lost" to vargas he was back on ESPN fighting again. Meanwhile vargas who was more marketable got the Tito fight and even after getting KTFO got the DLH fight after that and continued even when he was shot to get big name fights with mayorga and mosley. Winky was doomed to ESPN land until Mosley gave him a shot, which he did basically as a favor for a friend. Nobody would have said anything if he avoided that fight but he took the risk and lost. After that Winky was on HBO again.

He was young and inexperienced so he Prbly just fought to gain some. He started when he was twenty one so who cares. When he got his shot he's done good things since and faced top fighters in his division and out classed almost all of them. So it's all good.

margarito ruined him, then he unruined himself, and now golovking will ruin him again.

It was like Maximus returning to Rome, complete with a shithead son of a legend to play the villain. lol, good analogy.

right place at the right time. most of his opponents were on a slide

Do you think Antonio Margarito used dodgy wraps during their fight? Hell yeah be did...

I remember him beating a couple of decent British Light Middles back in the day. Do you think Antonio Margarito used dodgy wraps during their fight?

He went undefeated during that time.......if HBO or Showtime don't give you a shot, you are considered just another "eurobum" Once he got that HBO shot, he kept on trucking. *speaking in terms of his next shot at fighting on HBO of course. It was like Maximus returning to Rome, complete with a shithead son of a legend to play the villain.

Almost a decade spanned between his loss to Margarito and his fight with Bunema. What was going on in those years? Was there promotional issues or something else preventing him from getting in the ring with anyone with a pulse? How would he have fared against Mosley, DLH (had the BHop fight not happened), Vargas, Wright, circa 04-06?? He went undefeated during that time.......if HBO or Showtime don't give you a shot, you are considered just another "eurobum" Once he got that HBO shot, he kept on trucking. *speaking in terms of his next shot at fighting on HBO of course.

Martinez only entered his prime in the Pavlik fight - according to his own viewpoint in an interview I heard after that fight. I think Mosley, DLH, Wright would have beaten him back in 04 - 06.. He might have beat Vargas. But he wasn't that stagnant after the Margarito loss, he won 2 minor titles and the IBO LMW title over the following 3 years.