Comments Thread For: Sergio Martinez's Adviser Fires Back at Pirog's Promoter

[relego]

Martinez needs a fighter who brings enough $$$ to the table to make the fight viable--in this case, it's Barker. If Pirog brings little and asks for too much, then Martinez should duck him. If you want to lay blame on anyone, it should be on Pirog's manager/promoter, not on Martinez's.

[bojangles1987]

How the hell does pirog make more sense? And Sergio already tried the whole fighting Beltholders thing before. HBO rejected Sabastian Zbik!

Because Pirog has been calling out Martinez for a year now. Because Pirog has a belt. Because Pirog has been on HBO and won in exciting and dominating fashion. What the hell has Darren Barker ever done?

You sound like nothing more than a Sergio apologist in denial that Sergio is taking a fight against someone who doesn't deserve it, that he will win easily, for no reason other than he is desperately trying to land a fight against Mayweather, Pacquiao, or Cotto, and doesn't want to risk that slim to none chance.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Nobody to be honest! Everyone in that division is pretty underskilled. Sturm might make things intresting seeing that he's the longest raining beltholder but he wont ever leave Germany again after the De la hoya robbery.

So Martinez should fight nobody.

Great!

[bojangles1987]

So Martinez should fight nobody.

Great!

That will really expose him to a larger audience!

Martinez looks to be following the Paul Williams model of doing nothing but complain about not getting big fights. At least Williams fought people though.

[jrosales13]

How the hell does pirog make more sense? And Sergio already tried the whole fighting Beltholders thing before. HBO rejected Sabastian Zbik!

Zbik wasn't the title holder when Martinez was willing to fight him. Zbik was the mandatory #1 contender for Martinez strap.

Dirk and Bojangles are right in this case. You just being plain ignorant and apologist.

[daggum]

How the hell does pirog make more sense? And Sergio already tried the whole fighting Beltholders thing before. HBO rejected Sabastian Zbik!

zbik was the mandatory and only became champ after martinez refused to fight him. martinez could have fought him off hbo if he wanted to keep his belt but he's a spoiled baby and will only fight on hbo for millions of dollars against hand picked opponents.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

zbik was the mandatory and only became champ after martinez refused to fight him. martinez could have fought him off hbo if he wanted to keep his belt but he's a spoiled baby and will only fight on hbo for millions of dollars against hand picked opponents.

Get a ***in grip daggum. I dont like the Barker fight either but thats just ridiculous. HBO rejected Zbik as an opponent.

Have you ever said anything positive about a boxer on this site?

[jrosales13]

Get a ***in grip daggum. I dont like the Barker fight either but thats just ridiculous. HBO rejected Zbik as an opponent.

Have you ever said anything positive about a boxer on this site?

I think he has said something positive about Trinidad once.

But, then again how you can you not positive things about Tito

[Kagami Taiga]

The truth is the middle weight dividing sucks. None of the fighters are that good and none wanna go outta their way to prove themselves. The best fighter by far in the division is Martinez. Only fighters worth a shot are Sturm and Geale. But neither want to fight. Serg doesn't wanna fight Pirog for whatever reason and Pirog honestly doesn't deserve a shot. But the Barker fight is more than questionable. What does that say? No 1 is really right. If u wanna criticize Sergio go ahead. But he deserves less blame than anyone else.

[daggum]

I think he has said something positive about Trinidad once.

But, then again how you can you not positive things about Tito

trinidad ko 1 calzaghe

saying something positive about trinidad while saying something derogatory about calzaghe. best of both worlds!