Comments Thread For: DiBella: Ishida is One of Several Names in The Running

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So many people are talking about who Martinez is going to fight but no one is talking about who don't want to fight him. I'm sure he would fight Floyd/Cotto/Pac/Margarito..... and whoever else can bring him the exposure and money he needs. Dude had 4 fights against 4 legit opponents. How can anyone on here say that he's ducking guys like Kirkland and Pirog? Just ridiculous. Ishida loojed great against Kirkland, while Pirog struggled against a nobody. At this point I'm sure whoever Sergio Martinez fights that people are going to say something. It's funny how they are saying something about his past opponents? Like I said.... "boxingscene" should convert to "Hatingscene" because it is sure alot of bitter, crap talkers and no thinkers trying to give valid opinions but don't even know the ins/out, out/ins of the sport.

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But there are so many better options than this. Why are Martinez's people talking about Manfredo and Ishida instead of talking about Pirog or Sturm or Cintron or a third fight with Williams or Angulo, etc, etc. If none of those guys want it, then at least he tried, but he should be trying to make those fights. If Martinez wastes time fighting nobodies trying to land a fight with two welterweights, we shouldn't support that as boxing fans.

Maybe because they don't want to fight him. Angulo priced himself out twice and Williams is still traumatized from the last KO. Manfredo was already an option but people starting talking crap about him fighting Manfredo too. Cintron probably don't want it either but I would want that one to happen before anyone because Martinez owes Cintron an ass whupping. Sturm has been silent and Pirog just seems too inexperienced to tango with Sergio. At the end of the day, I feel none of them dudes can beat him, so no reason for me to think he is ducking them because these past 2 years Martinez showed that he has the cojones to accept a challenge and show up. This ducking talk is nonsense.

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"While he continues to fight with opponents who have no chance of winning, and I continue to fight against the best - one day I will [become the best pound for pound fighter]. Because I know that I have to face reality that it's almost impossible [to fight him] given the height and weight. It makes more sense to go after fights with Miguel Cotto or Floyd Mayweather Jr. Against either of them, I'd love to show that I'm at an amazing point in my career," said Martinez.


LOL yup... ok sure

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pirog looked great against jacobs(an actual middleweight) in a title fight and martinez fans said "who is this guy. why should we fight him?"

fast forward to when ishida looks great against kirkland(a junior middleweight) trying to get the rust off after coming out of prison and the martinez fans say "martinez-ishida is a great fight! ishida just beat kirkland!"

maybe it's just a coincidence that they want martinez to fight an unranked 35 year old junior middleweight with 5 losses instead of an undefeated top 10 middleweight in his prime...