Comments Thread For: Barker: I Should've Thrown More With Sergio Martinez

[Bushbaby]

I don't know what fight most of you were watching but Barker threw his share of punches & was amazingly accurate. Stop listening to the hbo analyst & actually reason of your own accord. He was far more active than AA & Clottey.

[iNDOLiFER]

Well Barker damn sure wasnt coming off of loses..lol......at least he actually TRIED TO FIGHT

So that makes it legit because he tried to fight? lol!! And who has barker fought? Hahaha. He was coming off a win over some unrank untested fighters lol!!!

[iNDOLiFER]

Mosley tried to fight also until he got caught so does this make it legit also since he "tried"?

[junior gong]

I thought he did very well, but there is no substitute for experience at the top level. He has had his problems with injuries and time out of the ring, and he has only been competing at domestic and european level.

You cant blame the guy for taking the shot when it came up, and I think the criticism he has gotten on here is very unfair. He did his best, managed to bust Sergio's nose and get his respect, he certainly fought better/smarter than Dzinziruk and virtually noone gave him a chance of getting past the first 6.

I expected a good performance from him and thats what we got. The experience will be good for him going forward and I look forward to seeing him back in the ring again soon.

[Leohappy]

I don't know what fight most of you were watching but Barker threw his share of punches & was amazingly accurate. Stop listening to the hbo analyst & actually reason of your own accord. He was far more active than AA & Clottey.

It's not hard to be accurate, when the other guy is hardly putting any defensive effort. But Barker didn't do TOO bad I guess. Good game plan, but not a game plan to win.

[iNDOLiFER]

Idk about u Larry but I rather fight a ranked fighter and get beat than to fight 30 amatuer and win all 30 because at the end of the day those 30 amateur doesn't count lol..

[wazaa.]

No ****, you cowardly bum !!

I genuinely dislike fighters like Barker and McCloskey. It are the biggest fights of their careers and they stink it out.

**** them both !!

[IronDanHamza]

Constant double standard.

If you are critisizing Manny Pacquaio for his recent list of opponents then you have absolutely no choice but to critisize Sergio Martinez for fighting Darren Barker.

The fact he 'tried to fight' or 'made a good account of himself' or 'was competitive' makes absolutely no difference to the fact that Darren Barker has SOLELY fought bums his entire career, was not ranked, has never been ranked and was a blatent cherry pick.

You can't have one and not the other. Regardless to the fact you're a fan of them or not.

[Bushbaby]

It's not hard to be accurate, when the other guy is hardly putting any defensive effort. But Barker didn't do TOO bad I guess. Good game plan, but not a game plan to win.

Dude Barker was fighting on the world class level with no world class experience & won most of the 1st rounds of the fight. He didn't do too bad? It's not hard to be accurate at world class level? That might be the dumbest **** I've ever seen form you bro.

[Doctor_Tenma]

Constant double standard.

If you are critisizing Manny Pacquaio for his recent list of opponents then you have absolutely no choice but to critisize Sergio Martinez for fighting Darren Barker.

The fact he 'tried to fight' or 'made a good account of himself' or 'was competitive' makes absolutely no difference to the fact that Darren Barker has SOLELY fought bums his entire career, was not ranked, has never been ranked and was a blatent cherry pick.

You can't have one and not the other. Regardless to the fact you're a fan of them or not.

It was up until Barker that Martinez fought someone that was finally perceived to be an easy opponent. So it's not like Martinez has consistently been taking on easy guys.