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interesting good find i saw on a boxing show an interview with margarito stating that he wanted a rematch with p williamsProof that Margarito had a chance for a rematch but didn't take it
Paul Williams, Boxing's Most Avoided Man
By Ralph Gonzalez
WBO Welterweight champion Paul “The Punisher” Williams (33-0, 24 KOs), is every 147 pounders worst nightmare.
At six foot one, with an eighty two inch reach and a southpaw stance, fighting Williams is a sizeable challenge.
“My reach is definitely an advantage. I can hit them from the outside and they can’t hit me back,” said Williams after finishing a sparring session in preparation for his February 9th date on HBO against Carlos “El Indio” Quintana (24-1, 19 KOs), at The Pechanga Casino. In comparison, Quintana, also a southpaw, has a seventy two inch reach and is five foot nine. “Quintana is going to be feeling the end of my punches,” Williams told TSS.
It took defeating the so called “most feared man in boxing”, Antonio Margarito, in front of a sold out audience at The Home Depot Center in Southern California for Williams to get some deserved attention for his resilient performance against the hard nosed Mexican. “I got the attention but not the credit I deserve,” said Williams. “But I think people are beginning to know I’m for real. I think it’s starting.”
The fight between Williams and Margarito was a classic as the hard brawling Margarito charged forward and Williams snapped shots from the outside. “He was trying to impose his will on me from the first round,” remembers the South Carolina native. “But I boxed effectively and outworked him. I took the first six rounds easy.”
The Tijuana fighter started finding his range in the second half of the bout and eventually connected on Williams with a more effective attack. Williams remained active and managed to throw an average of a hundred punches per round. “I got to give the man his props,” said Williams of Margarito. “He made me fight like that. He was the champion but my work rate was too much for him to deal with.”
Most observers agree that the fight came down to the twelfth round. “He took the eleventh and I knew I had to give everything of myself in the final round. It was his hometown and the fans were having an effect,” said Williams. “You go in there and take the champion’s title and that’s what I did. I made sure I shut him down in the end.”
“I agree that the fight was lost in the final round,” stated Margarito when recently questioned about the fight. “I got too confident. At the time I felt I had the fight won. He threw a lot of punches but I was blocking most of them. It was close but I still feel I won.”
Margarito wanted a rematch but was kept from pursuing one by advisors and his promoters at Top Rank who were searching for a more lucrative bout. Margarito is now scheduled to fight Kermit Cintron in a rematch.
“I wasn’t surprised he (Margarito) didn’t want an immediate rematch. But if he wants one, he can still get one anytime he wants,” said Williams. “He knows how difficult a fighter I am and if he would’ve lost to me again that would’ve made him into just another opponent.”
http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxin...t-avoided-man/
Name: Vlad
Occupation: Exposing the truth
looks like bob arum had other plansComment
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There's your proof. Nice find vladimir.Comment
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