Andre Dirrell: I'd love to fight Sergio Martinez
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Emanuel Steward: I think that Sergio, if I was Sergio and I was his manager or promoter or whatever, I would not want to be fighting an Andy Lee type of fight. I would want to be fighting one of those big super fights, and he deserves a big fight. It’s just unfortunate that it looks like it’s not going to happen, because he’s too big for one situation, and maybe too small for another, and he’s too good to some degree, too. He’s a big fighter that’s good when you compare him to some of the guys in the junior middleweight and welterweight divisions with the Mayweathers and all of those types of guys. Then I just don’t see him being big enough for the super middleweights. He’s really like caught in between. I think he’s really a full middleweight now, but he’s caught in between and he’s got a style that nobody wants to fight to some degree.
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Martinez is 36, wants to be considered the P4P best (Manny and Pacquaio are considered the top 2), and I'm sure he wants some money as well (he isn't getting any younger). His backup plan is to unify the belts at 160.
I don't necessarily think he is afraid of super middleweights like Bute. It's just there's much more money and arguably much more glory associated with a Mayweather or Pacquiao fight.Comment
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HAHAHA...No way he would make easy work of Andre Dirrell. He's a damn good boxer. I don't even know if Martinez can handle the 168 boys in the first place.Comment
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