Comments Thread For: Goossen: "Paul Williams May Return To 147-Pounds"

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According to promoter Dan Goossen, Paul "The Punisher" Williams may be returning to the welterweight division for a while. Last Saturday in Atlantic City, Williams was knocked out in two rounds by WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez. Since 2008, Williams has been taking fights at 154 and 160-pounds. Williams' height of 6'3, and 81-inch reach, made it very difficult to land fights at welterweight. He moved up to find bigger game. Goossen plans to speak with Williams, and managers George Peterson and Al Haymon, about another welterweight run.

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[Bomb_on_you]

what a ***** he cant take a punch from any1 near his own size what a ***, but acts like he's so good *** wit

[Doorag]

To fight who exactly?

[pistol whip]

To fight who exactly?

Who cares his days as a dangerous contender are over! He can continue fighting the Winky Wrights and verno phillips of the world for all I care.

[mellow_mood]

if hes fighting again @ 147 ..... he will become an underachiever.... they better let his body grow once and for allllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cleaner147]

I dont know who he was beatin to get so much praised at 154, but at 147 he was elite.

[indystress]

with his height and reach, and from what i can tell from his body size, PW is a middleweight and could be as high as a supermiddleweight, even maybe as high as light heavyweight...

so PW cannot beat guys his own size so he needs to go back to welterweight? that would be considered draining himself, according to *****s...

why dont PW try to go up to super middleweight, i think he has a better chance against the top fighters there, as long as martinez dont move up...but according to what i saw in his size and weight, martinez could easily fight as a super middleweight, and maybe as a light heavyweight...why these boxers continue to try and lose weight to make a division, then go back up 10 to 20 pounds on fight nite is ridiculous...there should be a mandate that says you cannot be 5 pounds over the max weight limit come fight nite...that way the fight will be as even as can be.

in martinez's case, without the catchweight against PW, he had to lose 15 pounds to make weight...if he had to drop 15 pounds to make weight, he shouldnt be fighting in the middleweight...he should be fighting in the super middleweight or light heavyweight.

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How ****** can people be? Its called weight divisions not height divsions. Paul is not that big, hes just tall and really lanky.

Perhaps lets make a special class for the Kilts since they are so much bigger than most. Lets call it the super duper tall divsion...........

[brick wall]

desperate move...if paul is thinking that he can still get the big fights at 147 then he's delusional. he just suffered an embarrasing ko loss. just stick to 154, that's his best weight. he fucking rehydrated to 168 last saturday...he has already outgrown the welterweight.

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How ****** can people be? Its called weight divisions not height divsions. Paul is not that big, hes just tall and really lanky.

Perhaps lets make a special class for the Kilts since they are so much bigger than most. Lets call it the super duper tall divsion...........

Your right there are no height divisions but it also doesn't take a ***ing rocket scientist to see that Williams is being carefuly matched against fighters that he has great hight and reach advantages against. And yes I know he doesn't fight tall all the time. But all that hight and reach even on the inside makes it difficult to avoid him. He may be and inside fighter but it makes it difficult for the smaller fighters to use their footwork to get away from him. So yes his 81 in reach is a huge advantage when you are pressuring smaller fighters and not so much when you are fighting taller rangier fighters.