Martinez vs. Pacquiao: Why wasnt this made?

[MindBat]

Pretty much. Why fight Corey Spinks or Verno Phillips when you can fight the cash cow Oscar?

Exactly. Made economic sense. And it wasn't for a vacant belt.
Oscar held the WBC title at 154.

[Swag Hustla]

To be honest, i have to admit that Pacquiao's team is handpicking beatable opponents. Sergio ain't one of them. I don't think Pac or Floyd would fight Martinez. I agree with them. They're too small.

If Martinez was one of Arum's fighters, he would sell out Pac and feed him to Martinez if he knew the time was right (or the other way around). That's exactly what he's doing by feeding Margarito to Pac and what he tried to do with Cotto and Foreman. The promotion and media coverage was obviously biased to lean towards Foreman and to treat Cotto like a gatekeeper.

[boxingfan_123]

because its not a fair match pac would get messed up he's too small for martinez

[Iceta Lives]

It'd be a good fight. Martinez would definitely give Pac problems.

[Bong Bong]

Why did Floyd fought Marquez when he said he's coming back to regain the top P4P spot.

[Danny Gunz]

Pac has a shot in this fantasy fight. Sergio's size is a huge advantage for him but there are several times throughout a fight where Sergio is caught off balance I think with proper training and Pac's speed and explosiveness they could exploit it.

Hell even Pavlik caught him off balance.

[jpunieves]

I dont understand.

He wanted a paper belt at 154 so why didn't he go after the best guy? Why did he go after the most least deserving guy.

Martinez vs. Pacquiao: Why wasnt this made?

because martinez will be like mosley... ?

[mathed]

Because Martinez would tax that.

Yup, yup.....lol. Serg fights at a distance and is very good at it- very good at counter punching from a distance. Pac would not only be at a height but reach advantage. I'm sure Pac gets to him at times but Martinez would time Pac coming in and land a very hard left and drop him. Pac can take a punch but not too many from a guy like Martinez. I know people think Martinez does not have power but he does and he cuts people easily and seeing how Pac cuts fairly easily anyways, Martinez would end up butchering Pac's face.

I doubt Sergio would let Pac get all that close too often to allow Pac to land his combinations. I'd say either Sergio wins a decision or gets a late stoppage due to cuts.

[MindBat]

Why did Floyd fought Marquez when he said he's coming back to regain the top P4P spot.

Because he was coming off an almost two year layoff. So rather than pick on a tomato can in his comeback, he chose to fight the guy who many consider to have beaten Pacquiao, and who also called him out.

[horge]

He had his belt for a while though. Pac couldve shut up alot of people by fighting Martinez.

Im all for Will-Martinez but if Williams or Martinez were offered a Pac fight theyd drop and do it.

What are you saying?
By the time Arum and Greenburg called the flatline on Floyd,
Martinez wasn't the titleholder anymore, was he?

If you're now excluding the 'paper belt' from consideration,
then let me ask you this: if Pac had walked away from
"alleged negotiations" with Team Floyd, to fight Sergio
(or anyone else, actually)...

would there not be *****s hooting and hollering right now
about how Pac ducked Floyd?




Pac v. Marg is on because it makes the most money for
Blob Arum. It's all in-house, and that POS Margarito has a
solid Mexican fanbase willing to shell out to see him get
shellacked.