Comments Thread For: Pacquiao-Martinez: Arum Rejects DiBella's "155" Proposal

[dwidsid3d]

It's not every day that you can enjoy blow by blow reporting from the lips of Bob Arum.

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Lou Dibella makes me laugh"Martinez would have to kill himself to make 155",he has his excuse when Martinez gets knocked out again(like he did against Margirito) if he faces Pac-man.LOU,Martinez fought at 154 2 fights ago,but he would have to KILL HIMSELF to make 155 less than a year later.Lets be real here LOUIE.As for Berto(who was rocked and lost in mine and a lot of other boxing fans minds when he finally fought a lower top ten fighter in Louie Collazo).Berto employs the style most fighters who have NO chins or are too old to fight a FULL 3 minutes use(Andre Ward,Popkins)they throw a few flurrys then hold,let go real quick a few more flurrys then hold on.Holding is illegal and if it was enforced Berto,popkins,and ward would have been ko'd a long time ago.Its truly pathetic to watch these guys hold(I can't even say fight since they don't engage).The fans know how cheap these fighters are and how scared ey are to ttake ha punch so it makes for DREADFULL television.Is it a coincidence that they have togive away tickets when Berto or Popkins fight and Ward NEEDS to fiht ing his hometown just to draw acouple of thousand fans."i will now qoute e ever quotable Larry Merchant"If a fighter is entering the ring thinking how can I win without takinthg a punch ,thats a boxer I no longer care to see".I'll second that Larry and I just named 3 fighters Ward,Berto,Popkins who seem petrified to take a punch.By the way Berto NEVER fights Manny .He's too hold which means berto's pudding chin gets plastered,if Cosme Rivera drops you and Collazo stuns Manny comatoses YOU.

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

hahaha look at this coward.

And people compare him to Armstrong?

Stop it.

[joelab75]

Martinez beats Pacman regardless of weight...

Another Arum excuse.

okay lets make Sergio P4P king and ATG then. because he did the impossible feat. beating PW. because P4P is fighting in a different division and see how a boxer fare. since Sergio can beat Manny regardless of weight he should be crowned P4P King right now.

oh wait Sergio beat Manny regardless of weight? thats the reason they ask for 155 lbs? right? why not making offer to fight Pac regardless of weight? or even a reasonable weight for Manny? like let say 150 lbs?

[swizz]

154 pac is the jr mw champ time to defend your belt

if this was mayweather people would be on here having a fit

time to stop hating on fighters and hold them to the same standard

martinez under 150 is absurd

[BoxingTech718]

154 is only 1lb below 155, what's the big idea? I'm calling BS on this excuse.

[TboneNYC09]

so now Margo who was blasted out of Dallas stadium by Pacquiao,gets another shot at a title???

Margarito vs Cotto (2) = A joke

Gotta love that Bob Arum...NOT!!!!

[wizard king]

okay lets make Sergio P4P king and ATG then. because he did the impossible feat. beating PW. because P4P is fighting in a different division and see how a boxer fare. since Sergio can beat Manny regardless of weight he should be crowned P4P King right now.

oh wait Sergio beat Manny regardless of weight? thats the reason they ask for 155 lbs? right? why not making offer to fight Pac regardless of weight? or even a reasonable weight for Manny? like let say 150 lbs?

How about 154 instead since pac thinks he is a legit 154 champ.pac nothing but a fake champ

[iNDOLiFER]

Everyone is caught in the excitement of the one-punch knockout that was delivered to PW. Especially when it comes right after the B-hop black fighter BS talk. Give credit where credit is due. That knockout by Martinez should be a lock for KO of the year, no doubt. But to suddenly talk about Sergio as a heck of a P4P in the mix of Pacquiao and Mayweather is still a big stretch in my opinion. Pac and May are clearly 1-2, and no.3 is highly debatable and whoever that spot goes to, he is still a distance away from 1 and 2. P4P in it's true sense of meaning is "who'll win when you disregard the weight and size". It is the hypothetical proposition of matching fighters from different weight classes. In another way to put it, it's simply asking the question "if so and so were the same size, who would win?". These hypothetical scenarios are sometimes demonstrated when some fighters move up to another weight class to challenge the next higher crown. Here, you get a glimpse or an actual demonstration of what happens when two fighters that normally belong to different weight divisions, suddenly equalize their size and get it on. Typically, the smaller dude is the one who makes the concession to defy the weigh scale by moving up. Or in some case, to minimize that disadvantage, both fighters agree to a catch weight to even the playing field. Pacquiao and Mayweather have both demonstrated this ability to defy the weigh scale. Both successfully ventured in at least 5 different weight classes. They weren’t just successful, they DOMINATED. Martinez has also done so, but to a significantly lesser degree. In order to be considered in the mix with the top two, let Martinez challenge the next bigger guy (Lucian Bute, Andre Ward, or Arthur Abraham), give up 17 lbs, and break the man’s orbital bone. You get the picture?

i cant blame them, they needed someone to hype up so much since manny has been whooping on all there beloved fighters and when martinez score that KO punch they jump on him like he's god now. LOL

[iNDOLiFER]

How about 154 instead since pac thinks he is a legit 154 champ.pac nothing but a fake champ

[wizard king]

Truth hurts doest it *******