Comments Thread For: Sergio Martinez-Paul Williams: Too Close, Even For Vegas

[GRUSTLER]

Williams had only three weeks to prepare for a Southpaw and was also preparing for a prerssure fighter. Martinez and Pavlik are opposite sides of the spectrum. I think this time Paul wins more convincingly. He totally gives up his height advantage and Williams needs to correct that this time around. It should still be a close one, but the fact that Williams throw way more punches usually becomes the deciding factor in close rounds. For those of you saying Williams was losing to Cintron in their fight, they didn't even fight four full rounds and you could have easily had the bout 2-2. Cintron was doing well, but thats because Williams wasn't going wild, he was taking his time. It's funny because if he goes in there and throws punches like crazy he's negating defense, but if he fights more tactically then he's not being busy enough...some of you people on here are so hard to please.

Paul Williams was getting clocked with big power shots. Knees
even buckled at one point. Williams likes to bring the fight to
his opponents by pressuring and volume punching in the process
he leaves himself wide open. the only time I saw Williams fight
technical was against Margarito. I think Williams/Martinez 2 will
be better than the first fight.

[GRUSTLER]

Everyone keeps talking about Paul making adjustments, I have never seen him make any adjustments. He got lucky and tagged Quintana early on in the rematch, nothing more. Martinez had less than a month to prepare for that fight and he was the one that made several tactical adjustments in the first fight when the right hooks quit working, he started the straight left leads to the chest and stomach. When those stopped, he started with the left hooks....Martinez's only issue was that he gassed a bit. This time, he will take Paul to school, Paul is scared of Martinez. Paul had never, ever been dropped before and he was all cut up by the end of the first match, he is gonna be even worse this time around. Williams saw how Martinez busted up Pavlik and had HBO not pushed so hard for the rematch, Williams would be fighting a lesser opponent.

Nah, I don't agree with you. Williams was ready for Quintana's
style the 2nd time around. You could see before he landed
the first power shot that he was timing Quintana. Even ate
one or two over hands from Quintana to land that punch
that sent Carlos Quintana home early.

[starkiller]

The first fight was pretty damn close.

[lutenco]

P.WILLIAMS with his long arms,incredible stamina and non stop punching can give problems to everybody;SERGIO MARTINEZ has movements,power in both hands,speed and he is very smart(at the end of the story he's lost only vs MARGARITO years ago,and we all know the fight was the undercard of BARRERA-MORALES,so i think he cheated vs MARTINEZ because all MEXICO was on TV).
I think this fight will be good,not like WILLIAMS-QUINTANA II!!!!
I still believe WILLIAMS and MARTINEZ can defeat PBF!!!

[Cotto 54/10]

Can't wait to see this fight.

[switchsouthpaw]

PWill can make the adjustments and win this fight.

I'm not so sure about that anymore. He relies mainly on being an active volume puncher. When his output slows down, he is easy to hit (Cintron/Quintana). I'm a fan of PWill, so I hope he can make the adjustments necessary in order to win.

[FloydTBE]

Very close first fight, really looking to see how the rematch goes