Comments Thread For: Sergio Martinez Receives Deadline: One WBC Belt Must Go

[Fearless Angel]

the road for chavez jr. to fight for a world title has been waaaaaayyyyyy too easy. fighting 40 bums and now he will fight a journeyman in duddy possibly for the WBC middleweight or super welterweight title if sergio gets stripped. i guess being the son of a legend and suliman being mexican help a lot. this is so DISGUSTING

[spoonwars]

Once top fighters even like Martinez and guys of his level refuse paying for those bull**** belts. The sanctioning bodies would react different because they won't be getting the paper that they want.

Once a fighter gains undisputed championship status, dump the belts and fight to defend your status afterward.

[dblaze9]

This is dumb as hell! Why are the sanctioning bodies trying to control who has belts and who doesn't? I don't think their purpose is matchmaking. They should just sit back and watch their belts be won/lost. Fighters should be able to defend at multiple weight classes of multiple sanctioning bodies. As long as fees are paid and the title is won and defended in the amount of time allotted, then there should be no issues here! I like the fact that there are fighters willing to put weight on and drop weight just to fight the best...Obviously all the sanctioning bodies aren't as open to these ideas...

Just plain ****** if you ask me!

[S IP U IR S xII]

Wow, belts today have become like Karate belts.....only good for holding pants up.

[mathed]

Sergio should say f the world and setup a fight with Sturm, beat him and then beat Sylvester. Run 160 because Williams will drop to 147, Cotto is not going to fight until November most likely against Pac in the rematch, and Spinks is not even worth the time.

Otherwise, move back down to 154 and beat Dzindziruk for his belt.

[Southpaw King]

if they only knew how much they are hurtinging themselves....i mean yeah its cool for a fighter to win a belt the first time but when they start hassling the fighters and pullin stunts like this.....the fighters say fuc* you...keep ur belt, so long as u dont take my check im gooood...and its happening more and more...sergio is the champ period, belt or no belt...

[paulf]

What a load of ****.

[lopez36]

more money to be made at 154

[TxHustla]

i guess all segio GAY lovers are really pissed of but guess what casual fans you cant keep 2 titles from a difent division at the same time you either at one weight class or the other.for this gay guy i think eh should stay at 160 154 he will prety much get ****ed up by the talents that are there and that are moving up to it.160 he can prety much dominate those bums at 160 who we all know dont have you know who they are.so i think gay sergio should stay at 160

Well that is not true at all.

yup..NOT TRUE AT ALL...Sergio also holds the WBO middleweight belt and u dont hear them asking him to fight at this weight or the other..its just the WBC wanting to make money faster..why have 1 guy fighting for 2 weights maybe once a year for each weight class when u can have 2 guys fighting twice a year for ur fees...simple business really..

Also Pacquiao holds the WBO welterweight belt and the IBO Lightwelter belt..they arent asking him to fight in 1 division either...its just about the fees..

[Heru]

"The Henry Armstrong era is long gone." - Sulaiman

We don't have to look far to see who is hurting boxing. We need to find a way to get rid or diminish the power of these corrupt sanctioning bodies.